Raven Ridge is the codename for AMD's Ryzen 7 2700U Processor with Radeon Vega Graphics. In choosing a name AMD wanted to highlight the Vega graphics as a discrete graphics alternative. We however expect abbreviated forms to be used, and would have been happy with Raven Ridge. Still, the point is important: marrying an x86 processor with a GPU in … Read more
UK tech leader takes Chinese lessons Our friends at Imagination Technologies Group have agreed to be acquired by China-backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge Capital Partners. Canyon Bridge said it will pay 182 pence a share in cash, or more than 550 million pounds ($740 million), for the U.K. designer of graphics chips. That’s 42% more than Imagination’s closing share … Read more
Tested and evaluated, and impressive Releasing two top end parts, the Ryzen Threadripper CPU, and the Radeon RX64 at the same time is a bit overwhelming when trying to do an evaluation of either one. To test the Ryzen Threadripper you need to use AMD and Nvidia AIBs. To test the Vega, you need to use AMD and Intel CPUs. … Read more
Denso plans to put Imagination in automobiles Denso, another one of those companies where the caps lock got stuck in the marketing department, has been stuffing electronics into automobiles, trucks, and other wheeled machines for over 56 years, and they’ve come to know a thing or two about how to do that. Recently the company formed a partnership with Imagination … Read more
Are being used for different kinds of games now How the GPU defies gravity and continues to have an increasing market demand. Since the introduction of the PC, which was 1981 believe it or not, we estimate that 2.1 billion AIBs will have been shipped by the end of this year. That’s not the installed base, just the total of … Read more
Former GPU developer has what they think is the next gen architecture Sacramento-based startup ThinCI unveiled its entry into the world of DNN accelerators Hot Chips in Cupertino. The fledgling company, with fewer than 70 people, has already taped out a proof of concept chip and is targeting availability of their first commercial SoC on development boards in Q4 this … Read more
Intel’s was a constant presence at Hot Chips 2017 this week, showing up a number of times to show off Knight’s Mill (the latest offering in its deep learning lineup for data centers) and Scorpio, the latest Xbox GPU as well as to bask in some reflected glory as the CPU and FPGA supplier-of-choice for Microsoft’s ‘Brainwave.' Also in evidence … Read more
AMD increased 8%; Nvidia increased 10%; and Intel increased 6% Up to now, the GPU and PC market had been showing a return to what has been normal seasonality. That pattern is typically flat to down in Q1, a significant drop in Q2 as OEMs and the channel deplete inventory before the summer months. A restocking with the latest products in … Read more
Better vision in VR Helsinki-based Varjo was founded 10 months ago by a group of ex-Microsoft, -Intel, and -Nvidia engineers; folks from University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in St. Petersburg; plus a few other high-tech companies. There are 20 people in the team now and a few of them came to the US a month ago to show … Read more
Leia comes to Display Week with a new approach for naked-eye 3D displays No conference on display technology is complete without some mention of holographic or some other variety of volumetric displays and Display Week had its share of these. Unfortunately, most of these displays are very unconvincing and suffer from problems ranging from low brightness to an inability to … Read more
PTC's LiveWorx conference pulls out all the stops as the company builds an infrastructure of companies, people, and things. . While President Trump was in Germany irritating German Chancellor Angela Merkel, PTC was in Boston celebrating Industrie 4.0 Germany’s push to intelligent design and manufacture. Industrie 4.0, echoed round the world in initiatives such as Made in China 2025, Industry … Read more
11.5 TFLOPS and 11 billion triangles/second AMD has taken two WX 7100s and combined them into one AIB. The GPUs have 16 GB of GDDR5 each, and run two separate apps, or can be combined in Crossfire to run one app. Like the single GPU WX 7100, the Radeon Pro Duo is based on the Polaris architecture. AMD has 2x … Read more
