Over the years of computer graphics, stretching back to Ed Catmull’s pioneering 1974 paper that introduced the concept of subdivision, wrapping, and unwrapping, the CG industry has been trying to find ways to make texture mapping faster and more efficient because it is such a powerful tool. It led to Jim Blinn’s famous 1978 paper on bump-mapping and other developments. … Read more
In his own inimitable way, Intel’s Raja Koduri lit up the web this week with his Twitter reveal of a full die shot of the 2-tile, 7-nm Intel Xe HPC GPU. The giant package has 16 clusters with 128 EUs, 1024 EUs total, and 8192 cores. It is alleged to be based on the Intel Graphics 12.5 architecture (revealed in … Read more
Nvidia may have started out serving the gaming community with a graphics chip, but the company has always been more than a gaming company. Nvidia is a computer company with strong interests in gaming, but its future is computing. CPU computing, GPU computing, and network computing. Maybe Nvidia should make a change to its name to reflect its broad interests. How about Nvidia Computer, or Nvidia Computing.
Yamaha was a developer of video display controllers or processors (VDP) in the late 1980s. The company made IBM compatible CGA display controllers such as the YGY603. The company also made the video display processor (VDP) for the Sega Genesis video game console, and the VDP for TI’s popular TI-99 calculator. Yamaha was, of course, best known for its audio … Read more
Similar chip as used in notebooks
The first commercial workstation class chip for the PC
New silicon solutions expected
Faster clocks, more cores, four to choose from
PC GPU market shipments decreased -5.3% sequentially from last quarter but increased 14.9% year-to-year.
Canvas GFX, a venerable document creation program for business-to-business applications, has announced the launch of Canvas Unlimited for Universities. Like the name says, it is an unlimited license meaning that participants have access to the full Canvas portfolio, which includes Canvas X, Canvas X³, Canvas X GEO, and Canvas X Draw for macOS.Canvas GFX is making it available to … Read more
In the mid-1990s, two major developments were taking place. One was the explosion of 3D graphics chip companies, and the other was the emergence of virtual reality from the labs to industry. In 1990, twenty companies were making or had declared they would make a 3D graphics chip. By 1996, the number of suppliers exploded to 70. And by 2000, … Read more
Augmented reality can be found in five and, maybe one day, six highly different platforms and configurations. Vehicle head-up displays (HUD) are one of them. HUDs are used in airplanes, boats, trucks, and cars. HUDs are offered as optional or standard built-in equipment in new cars and trucks and as a retrofit device for older or less expensive cars and … Read more
