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AMD APUs roll out

Raven Ridge is the codename for AMD's Ryzen 7 2700U Processor with Radeon Vega Graphics. In choosing a name AMD wanted to highlight the Vega graphics as a discrete graphics alternative. We however expect abbreviated ...

Oculus Connect 4 Conference

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who believe in VR and those who say it’ll never happen. And, okay, there are those wusses who say, VR is going to be great ...

Adobe races to the future

Magic over machines: more Harry Potter than the Terminator The overweening theme at this year’s Max is extending creative tools every everyone and brand new apps unveiled this year is enabling the creativity that resides ...

Photorealism for the masses gets closer

With increased performance and clever algorithms Ray tracing has been one of the white whales of computer graphics. Since its introduction in the early 1980s, ray tracing has promised to bring photorealistic rendering on a ...

Welcome to The New JPR

Introducing the all new Jon Peddie Research website. It all started out simply enough. We needed to revamp and create a responsive site. It was also getting obvious to us that continuing to create and ...

EVGA goes crazy fast— or maybe just crazy

Proving being cool is the key The folks at EVGA were bored one afternoon, and so Jacob Freeman said, “Hey, I know what we can do with that liquid Nitrogen left over from the beer ...

Fujitsu updates its premium Celsius workstations

Featuring new Xeons and an overhauled design Along with rivals HP, Dell and Lenovo, the number four vendor of workstations worldwide has an­nounced two new Celsius work­stations built around Intel’s latest Xeon Scalable and Xeon ...

Intel’s 8th Gen desktop Core family offers premium performance

Intel is rolling out its new family of 8th Gen Intel Core desktop processors for gamers, digital content creators, and overclockers. The processors will be available for purchase on October 5, 2017. The company is ...

How does Rzyen Pro stack up for workstations?

Garners support from Dell, HP, and Lenovo It’s no secret AMD has long been eyeing a return to performance-focused PC markets. For the better part of a decade, AMD CPUs have effectively been locked out ...

Imagination introduces its own VPU

New NNA steps up to compete in ML Citing the burgeoning intelligent vision market, Imagination Technologies announced on September 21st that it has joined the ever-growing list of companies with hardware acceleration for deep learning. ...

Imagination breakup and sale

UK tech leader takes Chinese lessons Our friends at Imagination Technologies Group have agreed to be acquired by China-backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge Capital Partners.  Canyon Bridge said it will pay 182 pence a ...

Apple’s milestone launch

Putting itself in the center. The veil of secrecy might be slipping or maybe CEO Tim Cook likes to let it slip for a seductive peek or two, because well before the start of this ...