Intel introduced its 11th generation Core i processors with its new 750 Iris X UHD graphics. Intel announced a full lineup of processors from the X-series Enthusiasts CPUs to the base i3. Intel is touting the integration of AI along with CPU/ GPU compute capabilities featured in the new generation. We were privileged to be able to get an i5-11600k … Read more
The Radeon 8500 AIB launched by ATI in August 2001 used a 150-nm manufacturing process, for its R200 (codename, Chaplin) GPU. The AIB worked with DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 APIs. The R200 introduced several new and enhanced features, but the most noteworthy was the ATI TruForm feature. TruForm was a Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) block developed by ATI (now AMD) … Read more
Unity had a pretty good Covid year. The company went private in September 2020. The share price surged 30% over its IPO price giving it a value of $20 billion. The company raised more than $1.3 billion in the IPO. Unity has just gone public, so the data chart is just going to have to look like this for a … Read more
17 billion transistors and AMD’s new Ray Accelerator Technology
AMD is putting out some very impressive gaming AIBs that may be overlooked by gamers in general. These boards are giving mainstream gamers impressive performance at the midrange price point. AMD’s reference design Radeon 6700 XT AIB The Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the latest graphical software suites such as DirectX 12 Ultimate and AMD’s FidelityFX5 feature set. Fidelity FX5, … Read more
Nvidia reported record revenue for the fourth quarter ended 31 Jan 2021, of $5 billion, up 61% from $3.1 billion a year earlier, and up 6% from $4.7 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $3 billion, up 10% from last quarter and up 47% from last year. “Q4 was another record quarter, capping a breakout … Read more
A Low mid-range AIB for economy gaming and it’s available… so far
Dell’s 40-inch, 5K wasn’t designed for game, but it’s damn good at it
Content driven, platform second, culture is everything
As the headlines and some investors' money slowly fades, and the echoes of share price surge from the GameStop revolt bubble continue to reverberate, the PC gaming market is worth about $35 billion and growing at about 5%, while the mobile gaming market has lower ASPs, but orders of magnitude more players and is projected to grow 20% and reach $120 billion by the … Read more
When I said I can’t wait to try gaming on this, they said, Jon, it’s a 60-Hz monitor, not designed for gaming. Yeah, but it’s also < 5 ms monitor and it only refreshed every 16 ms; so what? The games I play only refresh in 33 ms. I’m not a twitcher, at least when gaming. I don’t need a … Read more
Founded in early 1993, Nvidia set out to revolutionize the PC and console gaming market with 3D. They succeeded beyond even their wildest dreams, but not without a few bumps and bruises to make them smarter and stronger. The company was founded on the plan to develop single-chip media accelerators for interactive multimedia on PCs.¹ “We intend to focus our … Read more
