Beats the competition in 11 out of 12 tests We ran a series of tests on a new AMD 4-core, 3.6 GHz, Ryzen 5 2400G (in a custom built Cooler Master PC) and a HP ProDesk Intel 4-core 3.4 GHz, Core i5-7500 PC and in 38 benchmarks the AMD had an average gain of 207% better performance. AMD Ryzen 5 … Read more
Introduces 700 platform, a subset of 800 platform for IoT automotive and embedded Qualcomm’s new 700 series is targeted at OEMs and the company claims it offers premium features, such as on-device artificial intelligence, in high-tier smartphones and can meet the ever-increasing demands of China’s smartphone ecosystem for more premium devices. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series offers … Read more
New report from Jon Peddie Research
Over $4.4 billion dollars of AIBs shipped in the quarter. “The add-in graphics board market behaved seasonally in Q4'17, decreasing 4.6% sequentially, explained Jon Peddie, president of the industry’s research consulting firm Jon Peddie Research. The seasonal ten-year average for Q4 is -4.4%%, and this year it was just below that, which we think is due to the sharp rise … Read more
Year-to-year total GPU shipments decreased -4.8%
How many are there? 21 quadrillon 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! But how many? Twenty-one quadrillion, six hundred and thirty-four trillion pixels in use today: 21,634,876,802,016,700.00 To start the analysis, I started with what was shipped … Read more
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 GPU was Dell. With its thin, light, powerful as hell, and reasonably priced, pen-based XPS 15 2-in1sporting a 360-degree hinged 15-in 4K screen. A story … Read more
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 color gamut. and Nvidia’s G-Sync technology. Acer showed its 65-inch Predator Big Format Gaming Display with Nvidia G-SYNC at CES, introducing big screens to PC … Read more
Intel had the best visualizations and presentations in its history at CES 2018 CES is like Las Vegas in that it is an assault on the senses. The creative geniuses of the computer industry as well as the entertainment industry bring forth staggering visual experiences that seem other worldly, leave your ears ringing, your eyes saturated with negative afterglow, and … Read more
Our friends at Ceva kicked off CES this year with the launch of a new product aimed explicitly at acceleration of neural networks, along with a nifty new name and logo to help tell their story. The NeuPro IP core consists of a new ‘VPU’ (Ceva is using the acronym to mean Vector Processing Unit, not to be confused with … Read more
Epic’s acquisition of Datasmith reveals ongoing problem of data conversion The rise in the use of game engines to create content and applications has emphasized a long-time challenge of putting CAD data to work: how to port heavy CAD data for use in other mediums such as animation, interior design, analysis, and now VR app development. As the technology du … Read more
TIBURON, CA – January 2, 2018 – Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today released its latest quarterly report on the Visual Processing Unit (VPU) market. The major interest and activity in the market for Vision Processing Units (VPUs) continues to center on neural networks, both in terms of advances in the … Read more
