Jon counts all the pixels in the world
How many are there? 21 quadrillion pixels An old friend asked me, Hey Jon, how many pixels do you think there are in the world? TV’s, PC’s, smart phones, tablets. It’s going to be a lot! ...
New team, new day
AMD brings in some industry heavyweights AMD has announced the addition of two computer industry veterans to its Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) and to its executive team: Mike Reyfield from Micron Technology and David Wang ...
Imagination virtualizes its GPUs, automakers love it
Furian-based four-cluster PowerVR 8XT GT8540 GPU can simultaneously drive six 4K screens Imagination Technologies announced its new, high performance PowerVR Series8XT GPU core, which supports multiple, ultra-high resolution displays for cluster, Head-Up Display (HUD) and ...
AMD lines up its new ducks and takes aim at Intel
2018 hopes to win over gamers and place big bets for HPC AMD’s mission for CES was to convince its OEM customers and PC users that it can keep up the momentum of its CPU ...
Gesture sensing in VR may be obsoleted
Electronic skin will tell where your hands are If you’ve ever tried gesture recognition systems in VR, you know the resolution of the cameras are not really high enough to detect subtle movements. Also, the ...
Dell partners with Meta expanding its VR/AR offerings
Meta AR products will soon be available through Dell resellers. At CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Dell announced a slew of new VR/AR tools and peripherals. This includes the company’s first serious foray into VR ...
Realtime raytracing on your phone
VR & AR with realistic images coming soon People have described ray tracing as the holy grail of computer imaging. RT generates (if done properly) a physically accurate representation of an imagined or reconstructed scene. ...
VR HMDs shedding wires and getting more resolution
Effort put into freedom from tether and screen door Once again CES saw a lot of VR announcements combined with what is being referred to as mixed reality, a term that seems to have become ...
No disabled AMD GPUs in Dell XPS’
Move along, nothing to see here Well actually there’s quite a lot to see. One of the first companies to come to market with Intel’s new Kaby Lake multi-chip processor with HBM and an AMD ...
GDDR6 is available—or is it?
Three fabs are producing , expect to see in AIBs later this year Although a lot of people thought the highly parallel high bandwidth 3D memory (HBM) would be the logical heir to GDDR for ...
Local Motors’ rejiggers the model; Launch Forth community gets Solid Edge
The Local Motors concept has borne fruit with several vehicles and a very active community of inventors, and designers. The founding idea of Local Motors when it started in 2007 was to break the mold ...
Acer and Nvidia BFGD
That’s Big-format gaming display if you were wondering Acer, Asus, and HP have taken AU optronics panels and made 65-inch large format 4k HDR gaming monitors, with 120Hz refresh rates 1,000-nit peak luminance and DCI-P3 ...