At CES this year, zSpace introduced their new 15-inch 3D laptop. It is a passive 3D display system, but those few words don’t really do it justice. The laptop employs zSpace’s patented 3D screen technology and uses a pair of extremely lightweight circular polarized glasses. Inside is an AMD APU A9-9420, 8GB of DDR4 main memory, 256GB SSD, wireless … Read more
What is GPU virtualization? Conceptually, virtualization is the capability of a device to host one or more virtual machines (VMs) that each behave like actual independent machines with their its own operating system (OS), all running on the same underlying device hardware. For GPUs, this means the capability to support multiple operating systems running concurrently, each capable of submitting graphics … Read more
As you know I am a very close follower of anything that moves or mangles a pixel, and over the years Intel has mangled lots of pixels. I’ve been closely monitoring all leaks, tweaks, tweets, and feats from and about Intel’s dGPU efforts sometimes referred to as Xe and sometimes called Odd-oh-see. Recently while visiting Intel I managed to, ah, … Read more
ARM has done a lot of clever things over the past 29 years of its existence and buying Falanx in 2006 and continuing to invest in it for the past 13 years is one of them. (Selling to Softbank in 2016 wasn’t a bad move either for its investors.) New Mali-G77 GPU, ML Processor. Recently the company announced its latest … Read more
Is this the one that will go to market? Qualcomm has shown up at Computex with an always on, always connected light-weight Windows compatible clamshell notebook since 2016. And yet, it never seemed to make it to the market. HP built one and Acer built one and Qualcomm showed them at their analysts and press meetings, but they were hard … Read more
This is the latest installment of a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors, that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. 3Dfx was founded in 1994 in San Jose, California by former employees of Silicon Graphics (SGI) with backing from Gordie Campbell's TechFarm. In 1995, the company raised $5.5 million dollars from venture capitalists. … Read more
HP introduces a new design language—wood At Computex, which was attended by over 120,000 people, HP rolled out a suite of twelve new products for consumer and commercial users. HP's lineup of products introduced at Computex 2019. (Source: HP) Based on a variety of processors, one of the standout features was wood paneling on the wrist rest of … Read more
If you got a mid- to high-end AV amplifier within the last 10 years, it came with a mic that you could use to calibrate your 6 or 8 speakers to their environment. Today’s high-end TVs with 4K resolution and HDR offer similar set up once they're installed in your home or office. Portrait Displays, who has been supplying color calibration software to … Read more
When Intel decided to develop an alternative AIB to compete with discrete GPUs, they choose to use a ring of x86 processor, and called it Larrabee, named after Larrabee State Park in Whatcom County, Washington. The chip was to be released in 2010 as the core of a consumer 3D graphics AIB. Those plans were cancelled four years later in … Read more
By the early 1990s, the PC industry was still expanding and offering plenty of opportunity for all. IBM had lost its position of leadership and for a few years the market existed on commercial off the shelf (COTS) graphics chips from TI, and a bunch of XGA and VGA clone builders. In 1994, Number Nine, a small company in Boston, … Read more
What good is a new PC with a new CPU if it doesn’t also have a new GPU? Right. So when Intel let its bestest friends in the OEM community know that they would soon be building new PCs, those OEMs also heard from Nvidia—probably just a coincidence, but lucky timing, right? So to coincide with the new new 9th … Read more
Intel used an announcement about its new Cascade Lake-based Xeon 9200 Platinum to show off all the stuff they are bringing to the data center, which introduces many multiple SKUs and a range of supporting products with the intent of giving customers the ability to build custom server applications covering HPC, AI, edge, memory, and super-sized particle chasing servers. Intel … Read more
