AMD’s latest workstation lineup includes the W6800, and a W6600 for desktop and mobile. (Source: AMD) AMD has been rolling out its RDNA 2 across all its product lines first shipping in the fall of 2020. That in itself is noteworthy because AMD has a good story to tell with its broad-based product line. All the products are taking … Read more
A ray traced version of Imagination Technologies’ headquarters building Imagination has had ray tracing capabilities since 2010 when they acquired the boutique ray tracing company Caustic. Caustic had developed a hardware accelerator which Imagination turned into an RTL core and added to their stable of IP accelerators. The company has built out their ray tracing SDK and, in the … Read more
HP’s new AiO is skinny and makes you look good. (Source: HP) The spring refresh continues as PC companies show new designs with an awareness of the changing boundaries between work and life and IT. The most recent addition to the lineup is HP’s new EliteOne 800 All-in-One (AiO). This one is designed for home or office, but its … Read more
Regardless of how the workload is distributed between home and the office, corporations, government, and universities will now have close to twice the inventory of PCs they had before the pandemic hit.
Corel, a venerable player in vector graphics, has signaled a reset by rolling out the latest version of the software with an introduction by the CEO Christa Quarles who took over the reins at Corel. The company has spiffed up its corporate look quite a bit, which was evident in the presentations given by the company’s executives. Corel really should … Read more
AMD has generously and broadly used the designation Zen to describe various CPUs in their product line. The company’s latest offering in their server derby race is its 7nm Milan, the successor to the Rome processor. AMD says its Zen 3 architecture is 19% faster than Zen 2. Via a very slick virtual presentation, AMD executives showed the new AMD … Read more
The PC industry has been on a rollercoaster ride for the past decade or longer: up, down, up, down, up. In 2010, when Paul Otellini was Intel’s CEO, he forecasted robust growth for the PC (and Intel) over the next ten years, and spoke about the next billion units. At the time, the installed base of PCs was a billion … Read more
Falanx Microsystems was spun off from a 1998 research project from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The company was founded in 2001, and the Mali GPU was introduced. It was a clever design that used very little power, making it ideal for mobile devices. ARM acquired Falanx in June 2006, and Mike Inglis, executive vice president at ARM, said … Read more
Painter Essentials 8, the latest addition to Corel’s Painter family, has arrived. Painter Essentials is essentially a slimmed-down version of Corel’s high-end painting tool Painter for digital artists which sells for $429 on the Corel site. The Painter Essentials tool is $49.99. Slimming down Painter isn’t a bad idea for artists and hobbyists who like the idea of using photos … Read more
AMD has been an underdog since the introduction of the ill-fated Bulldozer processor which resulted in the career change of several CEOs, CMOs, and CFO at the company. And then, along came Lisa Su. Saddled with a company no one wanted to work at, no one wanted to buy, and no one thought had any future, she saw something others … Read more
Qualcomm changes CEOs and buys CPU company Nuvia, Intel rehires Pat Gelsinger, Jim Keller takes over Canadian AI company, AMD announces Ryzen 5000 and the majority of gaming notebooks, Nvidia brings ray tracing to the masses with RTX3600, Dell and HP introduce massive monitors as well as 15- and 17-inch notebooks. Qualcomm and Nvidia announce they are the partner of … Read more
If I can take my crappy 10-year-old Pentium with its no-name AIB, put in a 5g NIC for $55, and play 2020 FPS games, why would I ever buy a new PC or game card? This is a question many hardware game suppliers are asking themselves. Cloud gaming goes back to OnLive in 2003 and has progressed as bandwidth speeds … Read more
