Are the Chinese crazy? The Chinese grabbed headlines in 2010 with the announcement of their home built Tianhe-1 supercomputer, that delivered 1.2 PFLOPS, aided by AMD GPUs. The Tianhe-1A, a companion system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, delivers pushed the performance up to 4.7 peak PFLOPS. The National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin is now planning a new supercomputer, … Read more
$1.5 billion in sales, $71 million GAAP profit for the quarter, sales and profit down from last quarter. AMD reported its calendar Q4 2017; revenues and operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “2017 marked a key inflection point for AMD as we re-shaped our product portfolio, delivered 25% annual revenue growth, … Read more
AMD brings in some industry heavyweights AMD has announced the addition of two computer industry veterans to its Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) and to its executive team: Mike Reyfield from Micron Technology and David Wang from Synaptics. AMD will support Wang and Reyfield with dedicated engineering and business teams within RTG. AMD’s C-suite t’s a new arrangement in that the … Read more
Not only taking longer, costing more too—do we care?
A new CPU–GPU multichip for high-end notebooks and small form-factor desktop. As much as it pains me to give Kyle Bennet credit for anything other than being the fastest driver in Texas, it turns out he may also be the fastest news reporter too. Way back in July 2016 when Nvidia was telling us how great their new Pascal GTX thingies … Read more
Am I doing more?
Tested and evaluated, and impressive Releasing two top end parts, the Ryzen Threadripper CPU, and the Radeon RX64 at the same time is a bit overwhelming when trying to do an evaluation of either one. To test the Ryzen Threadripper you need to use AMD and Nvidia AIBs. To test the Vega, you need to use AMD and Intel CPUs. … Read more
