Before HDR, life was dull, bland, uninteresting, and uninspiring. Intel introduced HDR support with its 7th generation Intel Core processors that were launched in 2016. Both Nvidia and AMD also started to offer HDR support in 2016. In 2018, HDR monitors showed up at CES in 2017. In December 2017, VESA introduced the DisplayHDR specification, version 1.0. Finally, in 2018, … Read more
Total PC GPU market share Our Market Watch report for the second quarter of 2019 raised eyebrows when it revealed that AMD had reached a new milestone by selling more GPUs than Nvidia. AMD's achievement is significant and has been hard-won, but it’s not exactly the harbinger of a new world order as some readers have interpreted it. AMD … Read more
Thanks to a new camera scanner developed by IRIScan, one can scan any type of document (up to A4) or book, contracts, invoices, receipts, plans, newspapers, and magazines, without the need to cut them and damage them, and they can be bound or spiral-bound. There’s an automatic page change detection and the whole document can be converted into a Word, … Read more
Dorval Canada-based Matrox is the oldest continuously operating graphics add-in board company in the world — they started in 1979 before IBM introduced the PC. Matrox's first AIB was the ALT-256 for S-100 bus computers, released in 1978. ATI started seven years later (also in Canada) and eight years after that Nvidia started. Hercules developed their AIB in 1982, … Read more
A Chinese company, Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co. (Jingjia Micro), is claiming their upcoming GPU that is being fabricated at 28-nm will be capable of reaching Nvidia’s GTX 1080 performance levels. Founded in 2006 in the High-Tech Development District of Changsha, China, Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co., Ltd. has about 500 employees across all of its locations and generates about $60 … Read more
In 1996 as the 3D graphics chip market was in its ascendency, with new companies declaring devices every month, Microsoft shocked the industry by introducing a radically different approach — tiling. The conventional architecture for a graphics chip had been (and still is) what’s known as an immediate mode pipeline. The tiling approach composites 2D sub-images to the screen. Microsoft … Read more
AMD went to San Francisco last week to unveil its 7nm 64-core Rome processor. Claiming to be most secure, fastest, and most powerful single-chip processor available now, the top of the line model (the Epyc 7742) can hit 3.48 TFLOPS, running at 3.4 GHz, while drawing 240 watts. It has 128 lanes of PCIs 4.0 and can send data from … Read more
Just for a reference point, you should know that the Hubble optical telescope is 11,4777 × 7,965 or 94.4-Mpixels Last week, Samsung introduced a new image sensor with the highest resolution for mobile phones; more than anything on the market—64-Mpixels. The ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor uses the same 0.8-μm-sized pixels as Samsung’s current 48-Mpixel sensor, so the 64-Mpixel sensor … Read more
Ever since NHK proposed the notion of an 8K screen in 1995, there have been discussions about whether one could see it. There’s also been a discussion about what is 8K or what does it even stand for? Well, 8K is equivalent to 16 HD TV screens. Huh? Well, why isn’t it 16K then? The 8 in 8K refers … Read more
It wasn’t an April fool’s joke in 1997 when Nvidia released the RIVA 128 on April 1, based on the NV3 media accelerator. However, it was almost the company’s last gasp. The story begins in 1993 when Nvidia was founded in Sunnyvale. The company’s founders had a novel idea for a graphics accelerator based on quadratic surfaces, a significant departure … Read more
What’s more fundamental to the act of making a movie than the camera? It’s the camera that defines a movie and separates it from a play and as camera technology has changed over the years, they’ve changed the art of movies. When first used to make movies, cameras were fixed—they were giant things that stayed put and captured longish takes … Read more
Think Silicon based in Patras, Greece, was founded by George Sidiropoulos and Iakovos Stamoulis in 2007 with the vision to supply configurable IP semiconductor modules for complex SoCs. The company went on to develop IP for a line of low-power, powerful GPUs, and has developed a following over the years. Last week Metavallon VC announced they are leading the first … Read more
