AMD and Sony are having giggling fits
Fastest ramp for a new console ever
Steam Deck—another game console win for AMD
If you’re going to go into the game console business, and don’t own a beloved Italian plumber franchise, then you’re probably going to be talking to AMD. AMD’s APU is making a clean sweep of every next-gen console. Valve’s proposed Steam Deck is a portable PC with an integrated 7-inch screen and game controls instead of a keyboard (although a … Read more
PC Gaming Hardware Market set to Recover from Supply Problems
High-End PC Gaming Hardware Segment 5-Year Forecast 20.38% CAGR from 2020
Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine goes open source
New Open 3D Foundation is launching with over 20 founding members, including Adobe, AWS, Huawei, Niantic, and Red Hat, to accelerate developer collaboration on 3D engine development for AAA games and high-fidelity simulations.
AMD’s FidelityFX super resolution
AMD has added hardware acceleration and scaling to their GPUs and AIBs to enhance and speedup gaming and make it a realtime operation. The company has offered the enhancement to developers in an open-source manner via its OpenGPU program. That will make it useful for any GPU, of almost any vintage. AMD has branded it FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR). Raster-scan … Read more
Apple maintains momentum on spectacular 2020
Apple reported its best March quarter ever, which is to say March is not usually a great quarter for Apple. The company does its best during the holiday season by a long way. That pattern isn't changing, but the March quarter, which is Apple's second quarter in the fiscal year, is up 54% year over year with revenues of $89.6 … Read more
AMD Q1 2021 results
AMD announced revenue for the first quarter of 2021 of $3.45 billion, operating income of $662 million, net income of $555 million. “Our business continued to accelerate in the first quarter driven by the best product portfolio in our history, strong execution and robust market demand,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We had outstanding year-over-year revenue growth … Read more
Are PC sales headed for a crash?
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.
Realtime ray tracing for work and play comes closer
Unity to add support for DLSS
Intel Q1 2021 results
First-quarter revenue exceeded Intel’s January guidance by $1.1 billion, said the company, led by continued strong PC demand. PC unit volumes were up 38% YoY, and notebook volumes set a new Intel record. The company also saw an initial recovery of Enterprise and Government sales in the Data Center Group (DCG). Intel also achieved better-than-expected revenue in their Internet of Things … Read more
Shanghai Tianshu Intellectual Semiconductor Big Island
In January, we reported the announcement by Shanghai Tianshu Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co. about their plans to design, build, and deploy a GPU intended for GPU-compute. The company described it as a GPGPU accelerator for AI, especially training and HPC deployment. It was to be fabricated in a 7-nm process by TSMC. Shanghai Tianshu Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., commonly known (at … Read more
Intel’s 11-gen i5 and i9 Rocket Lake CPUs
Significant improvement over Gen-10