Intel everywhere at Hot Chips
Intel’s was a constant presence at Hot Chips 2017 this week, showing up a number of times to show off Knight’s Mill (the latest offering in its deep learning lineup for data centers) and Scorpio, ...
Alienware Area 51 desktop gets a Core X CPU infusion
In a brave switch from convention Dell rolled out the first update on the Alienware Area 51 machine, a real beauty of a gaming machine, with an AMD Threadripper CPU. Dell and AMD announced an ...
Overall GPU shipments increased 7.2% from last quarter
AMD increased 8%; Nvidia increased 10%; and Intel increased 6% Up to now, the GPU and PC market had been showing a return to what has been normal seasonality. That pattern is typically flat to down ...
Microsoft scores with Scorpio
A new SoC that can game at HDR 4K 60Hz If you get in line around the 15 of November, you might be able to get a new Scorpio Xbox when it goes on sale ...
VR is not the answer
But the questions are a heck of a lot of fun. Aren’t you sick and tired of VR? Look, you can tell me, I won’t tell anyone. I swear. As it happens I’ve been on ...
HP gives gamers what they came for: big honkin’ power in a laptop
The HP Omen line is for committed gamers, and we are tempted to ask, is there any other kind? HP segments the gamer community into three categories: mainstream, performance, and enthusiast and they line up ...
@Xi Computer PowerGO mobile workstation
A powerful portable powerhouse Mobile workstations will never replace a monster powerful desktop with dual processors and dual or Quad AIBs, and a 1200W power supply to keep all that stuff humming. But if you ...
Intel Q2 2017 results
$14.8 billion in sales, $2.8 billion profit, sales and profits down from last quarter Intel reported its calendar Q2 2017, revenues were flat and profits down in all of its business centers and feels it ...
AltspaceVR hangs it up
AltspaceVR, a hang-out like Second Life, announced that it has run out of money and will be closing its doors. The company posted an open letter blog to announce the closing as of August 3, ...
Dell workstations are old—20 years old
We celebrate Dell at Siggraph Jeff Clarke graduated from University of Texas at San Antonio in 1986 as a young engineer, bummed around for a while and finally convinced Michael Dell to hire him—he never ...
Meeting Deadline, again
Over in the Google side of the world, the acquisition of Thinkbox by Amazon has been consummated in the announcement of Thinkbox’s Deadline running on AWS. As Randall Newton reports in GfxSpeak, animation and design ...
AMD Q2 2017 results
$1.22 billion in sales, $16 m GAAP loss for the quarter, sales up, and loss down from last quarter AMD reported its calendar Q2 2017, revenues and non-GAAP operating income were up as well as ...