Never say never says Nvidia
“It ain’t over till it’s over”—Yogi Berra, 1973
Smoke, mirrors, DLSS on Arm—is that even possible?
Few people love ray racing more than me. And now Nvidia has made it possible to see ray tracing in a fast action FPS on a low-power notebook, proving it isn’t the CPU that makes it work. At GDC, Nvidia showed Wolfenstein: Youngblood running with ray-traced reflections enabled and DLSS in operation on an eight-core MediaTek CPU and an Nvidia … Read more
The new Arm Mali GPUs and Armv9 architecture
Last year, Arm introduced its Cortex-X1, claiming to have kickstarted the evolution of computing performance. Now they’ve followed that up with the firm’s first Total Compute solutions. Arm says it will provide three pillars of its Total Compute strategy – compute performance, developer access, and security. The CPU cores are the Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710, and Cortex-A510, based on Armv9 with SVE2 … Read more
Qualcomm’s NUC-like dev system
Qualcomm gave their first showing of a Chrome-killer thin & light, always-on, always-connected 13-inch notebook at their developer’s conference in 2017. It looked like a winner then. Lenovo, HP, Acer, and others signed up to build it. The idea of being able to get online anytime, anywhere was undoubtedly appealing. A bit problematic about how to deal with the phone … Read more
Arm says future Mali GPU will do ray tracing
During the Arm V9 announcement, one of the slides shown on the Mali GPU listed new features of Arm’s plans for Mali. Arm said that ray tracing and variable-rate shading, now available in the PC via DirectX 12 Ultimate, will one day be available in Arm-powered smartphones and tablets as part of Armv9. Chips using the new v9 architecture design … Read more
AMD to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion
What happens if you cross an FPGA with a GPU or CPU?
Apple updates 27-inch iMac, giving Apple heads a new dilemma
The big news for Apple came as it always did in June with the company’s big WWDC. This year’s event was no less explosive for being held as a virtual event. Instead, Tim Cook marched out and scrambled the game board with the announcement of new all-Apple strategy for new Mac computers coming at the end of the year. As … Read more
Arm is elbowing its way into your car
Based on Arm’s conversations with automakers and tier-one automotive suppliers, Arm says it’s clear there are increasing demands from consumers for a smartphone-like experience in their vehicles. In fact, says the company, despite the current economic climate, there is strong demand for innovation to power the increasing displays inside the vehicle, from mirror replacement to head-up displays, remains unchanged. These … Read more
Supercomputers—who gives a rat’s patootie
The Krell supercomputer (1956) There’s 500 of them! Five hundred. Do I really give a hoot? If I told you, there are five hundred top baseball players, think you’ve given a… after I named number five or six? Hell, I’d bail out after number three. I mean really, what’s a supercomputer ever done for me? But because we’re an … Read more
Supercomputers—who gives a rat’s patootie
Is it just bragging rights, or nuclear weapons research?
Fujitsu Arm-based supercomputer number one
This is the first time in history that the same supercomputer has become No.1 on Top500, HPCG, and Graph500 simultaneously.
A free GPU for RISC-V—RV64X
A group of enthusiasts is proposing a new set of graphics instructions designed for 3D graphics and media processing. These new instructions are built on the RISC-V base vector instruction set. They will add support for new data types that are graphics specific as layered extensions in the spirit of the core RISC-V ISA. Vectors, transcendental math, pixel, and textures … Read more