I’ve long had a bit of an anti-Apple grudge. There’s not a good reason for it, other than perhaps I worked at Dell for several years, and developed a bit of an attitude there… Despite the attitude, I can’t help but admire the consistent innovative spirit that seems to continuously ooze out of Cupertino. So, with respect, I encourage the … Read more
Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon 865 mobile platform scales 5G and 5th gen AI to power next-generation, premium devices with breakthrough features—from Gigapixel speed photography to desktop-level gaming features to staggering multi-gigabit 5G connectivity. The company claims the new Adreno 650 GPU in the Snapdragon 865 has 25% faster graphics rendering over the previous-gen GPU and is 35% more … Read more
Built with mobility in mind, says Qualcomm, the Snapdragon compute portfolio accommodates the evolving needs of mobile consumers. The Snapdragon 7c and 8c now join the previously announced Snapdragon 8cx, offering fast cellular connectivity to premium, mainstream, and entry-level notebook PCs. The portfolio is available in various price points allowing partners to design always on, always connected PCs for … Read more
The PC GPU market is tremendously influential as the power of GPUs have helped create a vibrant gaming industry that has continued to expand since the arrival of GPUs in the 90s. Gaming gets the headlines, but 3D professional applications including CAD design rendering, analysis, VFX work, video rendering all benefit from the GPU’s ability to do massive parallel processing … Read more
At the upcoming RISC-V Summit, Think Silicon will reveal what it claims is the industry’s first RISC-V ISA based 3D GPU—the NEOX|V. The new offering, says the company, provides a platform for implementation in multiple embedded and external devices across many consumer and industrial vertical markets including graphics, compute, and AI for IoT/Edge/Compute. Think Silicon believes the NEOX|V will also … Read more
Imagination Technologies announced the tenth generation of its PowerVR graphics architecture, the IMG A-Series. Claiming its IMG A-Series is the fastest GPU IP ever released, the company says it is designed to be The GPU of Everything, citing multiple markets, from automotive, AIoT, and computing through to DTV/STB/OTT, mobile and server. The IMG A-Series has a multi-dimensional approach to performance … Read more
Uchiha Fugaku was a jōnin of Konohagakure and Head of the Uchiha clan, as well as the Konoha Military Police Force. (Source: Fandom.com) The Fugaku supercomputer is a very large system, in which more than 150,000 A64FX high-performance CPUs developed by Fujitsu and based on the Arm instruction set architecture are connected by a high-speed Tofu Interconnect D network. … Read more
Facebook AI researchers Georgia Gkioxari, Shubham Tulsiani, and David Novotny delivered a fascinating paper at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Seoul, titled Pushing state-of-the-art in 3D content understanding. The premise of the paper is that to interpret the world around us, AI systems must understand visual scenes in three dimensions. To accomplish that formable task, the researchers … Read more
We test and have tested a lot of graphics AIBs and PCs over the past 30+ years, and we have used synthetic benchmark and application-based benchmarks—we even used to have our own Windows-based benchmark test suite (we called WITS). There are plenty of dedicated benchmark programs available, and even more in-game or application benchmarks. No single one is better than … Read more
Neon Noir, a free ray tracing benchmark based on the ray-tracing demo of the same name, which was made available as a video during GDC 2019. Neon Noir was developed on a version of Crytek’s Cryengine 5.5 and it features voxel ray tracing technology based on Cryengine’s Total Illumination global illumination (GI) technology. Crytek’s headline feature for Neon Noir … Read more
If you like fast cars, exciting race scenes, and some pretty good acting, then treat yourself to two and half hours of terror, frustration, and thrills—go see the blockbuster movie Ford vs. Ferrari. See it on a big screen with a great sound system. The movie is a flashback to the time when need-for-speed was expressed in the development … Read more
Most chips in today's smartphones, computers, and servers are comprised of multiple smaller chips invisibly sealed inside one rectangular package. How those multiple chips—often including CPU, graphics, memory, IO, and more—communicate has been a challenge for circuit, chip, and packaging designers? Intel thinks they’ve got the answer with their EMIB (embedded multi-die interconnect bridge) which is a complex multi-layered sliver … Read more
