Free at last—HTC cuts the wires that bind
Now you can walk away from your computer—maybe HTC has announced the Vive Focus, which they say is an all-in-one mobile device free from any connections to PCs or smartphones. HTC’s wireless VR HMD ...
Got too much money, want a gaming board?
Line up at the nearest Nvidia store to get a TitanX Collector’s Edition Coming soon—Nvidia’s Titan X Collectors Edition AIB (Nvidia) Blinking lights, anybody’d guess what’s in it? HBM2 maybe, a la Volta. A big ...
Moore’s law is getting expensive
Gorgon Moore’s observation in 1965 about the increasing density of transistors per square millimeter of silicon while maintaining the price and yet increasing the performance is undergoing a tremendous change this year and looking forward. ...
Nvidia’s Q3 FY18 results
$2.64 billion in sales, $838 million profit-up 44% from last quarter Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended October 29, 2017, of $2.64 billion, up 32 percent from $2.00 billion a year earlier, ...
VR is still a DIY situation, but getting more robust
Tinkerers and game enthusiasts love VR. The only genuine consumer VR system in the market today is Sony’s PS4 VR, everything else is a patchwork of items bought from various suppliers and bolted together by ...
Is the Arm machine learning a tough lesson?
Finding intelligence out at the edge, or not Arm has a new group, formed quietly back in July and announced recently, that it calls its Machine Learning Group, which is a sub-group within the Client ...
Arm Techcon 2017 conference
Tiny almost invisible things that will change your life. The dominant theme at the recent Arm Techcon 2017 conference in Santa Clara was security and the messaging from execs and invited speakers alike stayed on ...
Koduri to lead Intel to the promised AI land
After posting a good-bye letter to the people of AMD about his 40-day alleged sabbatical, Raja Koduri popped up as an employee at Intel. You don’t hire someone at that level in one day, Intel ...
Passing the baton
One of the great designers, visionaries, and most joyful people in the world is Raja Koduri. He is also a personal friend. Raja, after too many years of 25-hour days, and with a pile of ...
Intel builds heterogenous chip
A new CPU–GPU multichip for high-end notebooks and small form-factor desktop. As much as it pains me to give Kyle Bennet credit for anything other than being the fastest driver in Texas, it turns out ...
Another win for Qualcomm
As older companies evolve, NIH gets tossed aside. Unable to sustain the massive R&D costs of being a front-line semiconductor and system supplier, Via Technologies has given up on their S3 and Via graphics and ...
Graphcore Intelligence Processing Unit
A new yew—IPU Graphcore continues to dribble out information about its hopefully soon-to-be-released ‘Intelligence Processing Unit’. Earlier this year we got past the It’s-going-to-be-awesome stage, and we’ve since learned it has enough memory to hold ...