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Samsung gets stylish with its Smart Monitor series

Samsung Electronics got colorful with its latest Smart Monitor series, the M8, which features an upgraded, stylish design. The versatile new M8 has Samsung’s iconic slim design (though about three-quarters slimmer than the previous models) ...

The long view on LCDs vs. OLEDs

A couple of friends, well versed in the technology and graphics industries, recently expressed surprise when I mentioned the withdrawal of Samsung from the LCD business. We had an email exchange, and I thought I'd ...

GPUs, they’re everywhere…, just not for you

The GPU shortage persists in spite of reports that there is a product available and that MSRPs are dropping. That may be true, but unfortunately, the path to the consumer is not a straight line ...

Moore Threads comes out

Founded in October 2020 in Haidian, Beijing, China, the 80-employee company Moore Threads has introduced three AIBs—the MTT S10, MTT S2000, and just recently, the MTT S60 gaming AIB. The company had announced at its ...

E3 canceled for 2022

It’s not an April Fool’s Day joke. There will be no E3 show this year. And no one is laughing. Organized by the Entertainment Software Industry (ESA), The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or as some started ...

Gaming at 8k for $2k

  This is not an April Fools’ Day joke—at least I don’t think it is. Nvidia officially launched the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU powered by Ampere—Nvidia’s 2nd gen RTX architecture. It features a record-breaking ...

NAB forms Web3 National Advisory Council

Maintaining an eye as to what’s on the horizon for media, entertainment, and technology professionals, NAB Show has formed a National Advisory Council that will focus on issues pertaining to Web3, what many are calling ...

Intel announces Xe-based A-series GPU for notebooks

In late March 2022, Intel officially announced the availability of its first Xe discrete GPU (dGPU) within the first generation of dGPUs, the Arc series for the desktop and notebooks. The first-generation dGPUs were known ...

AIB prices are finally trending down—slightly

Graphics add-in board (AIB) prices, which were at historic highs in Q2 of 2021 before starting to stabilize in Q4, are now experiencing a drop. The factors contributing to the price hikes of AIBs were ...

Nvidia adds to its game development toolbox

(Source: Nvidia)   Like Earth and Mars coming into alignment, this year had the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) occurring simultaneously. The result of this convergence: Nvidia announcements and product ...

Lenovo’s latest ‘value’ workstations

Lenovo is growing its family of entry-level desktop workstations with the ThinkStation P360 and Tiny, which are geared for users who work with clock-speed-driven 3D applications, such as engineers and designers, as well as data ...

Nvidia’s Hopper data center GPU

Nvidia introduced their long-anticipated Hopper GPU with startling compute results—the chip is actually more of a compute engine than a GPU per se. Nvidia is claiming a 6X improvement over the previous-generation Ampere. Of that ...