CES 2022 highlights: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm
Can you even believe an in-person CES happened?
Done with ’21, what’s new for ’22
2021 was an uneventful year for GPUs and AIBs. Neither AMD nor Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, and only released AIBs based on derivatives of their 2020 GPUs. It will be mid-February before we get the final results, but we estimate the desktop PCs will hit 117 million, notebooks 297 million, workstations 3.5 million, and tablets 170 million units … Read more
Corel charts a new path to yet another rebirth
In 2019, the venture firm KKR acquired Corel Corporation. According to a story by Ingrid Lunden in TechCrunch, KKR could have paid billion dollars or so to Corel’s previous owner, Vector Capital, also a venture capital company. Vector Capital had an interest in Corel since 2003. The price tag is a bit surprising, but not totally. Corel has been a … Read more
Graphics add-in board market reached $13.7 billion for Q3’21 showing double-digit growth year-2-year
Quarter-to-quarter graphics add-in board shipments increased by 10.9% and increased by 25.7% year-to-year.
Amazon’s New World has a hard time getting it right
Not for everyone, Amazon’s New World MMO is demanding and has a few glitches, but it has fierce defenders as well. (Source: Amazon) Dinner out with a young friend who asks, is Amazon still bricking GPUs? Er, what? The gamers among you probably know all about this. Amazon’s new MMO New World, a Windows game introduced last summer, had … Read more
AMD accelerate the HPC center with Instinct
The era of exascale is here. With it comes an immense amount of computational power coupled with the merging of HPC and AI. And all that is enabling researchers to tackle grand challenges once thought beyond reach. Jumping into the lofty world of HPC and AI, AMD has introduced its Instinct MI100 accelerator and claims it is the world’s fastest … Read more
Graphics add-in board market hits $11.8 billion in Q2’21
Year-to-year gain of 179%, down 5% from last quarter
Q2 GPU shipments soar year-to-year
The PC GPU market shipments increased by 3.4% sequentially from last quarter and increased by 37% year-to-year.
Chernobylite
Somewhere between Stalker and FO76
AMD’s RDNA 2.0 add-in board delivers performance in the mid-range
The RX 6600 XT stacks up to its predecessors while being power conscious
AMD Q2 2021 results
AMD announced revenue of $3.85 billion for the second quarter of 2021, operating income of $924 million, net income of $710 million. “Our business performed exceptionally well in the second quarter as revenue and operating margin doubled and profitability more than tripled year-over-year,” said AMD president and CEO Lisa Su. “We are growing significantly faster than the market with strong … Read more
Colorful HP Pavilion notebooks powered by AMD
The notebook is made with post-consumer recycled and ocean-bound plastics, saving over 6,000 plastic bottles from entering the ocean.