Qualcomm gave their first showing of a Chrome-killer thin & light, always-on, always-connected 13-inch notebook at their developer’s conference in 2017. It looked like a winner then. Lenovo, HP, Acer, and others signed up to build it. The idea of being able to get online anytime, anywhere was undoubtedly appealing. A bit problematic about how to deal with the phone … Read more
Got your ray tracing on yet? What are you waiting for, there’s over 140 notebooks to choose from with prices as low as $800. You can get a new notebook with Nvidia’s new RTX3050 that runs Nvidia’s new DLSS 2.0 ray tracing magic. If you’re a gamer, even a casual gamer, you can game in a ray traced environment with one … Read more
HP’s new AiO is skinny and makes you look good. (Source: HP) The spring refresh continues as PC companies show new designs with an awareness of the changing boundaries between work and life and IT. The most recent addition to the lineup is HP’s new EliteOne 800 All-in-One (AiO). This one is designed for home or office, but its … Read more
During their GTC 2021 online event, Mr. Manuvir Das, Head of enterprise computing at Nvidia, announced that the new DGX Station A100 and DGX SuperPod mini-super computers will be available on a rental basis as well as for sale. The option is helpful for customers who have limited cash flow available to purchase a new supercomputer or in many cases … Read more
At Nvidia’s Graphics Technology Conference (GTS 2021), the company announced eight new Ampere GPU-based AUB for next-generation laptops, desktops, and servers. For desktops, the new Nvidia RTX A5000 and Nvidia RTX A4000 AIBs join the A6000 and feature new RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and CUDA cores for AI, graphics, and real-time rendering. They are up to 2× faster than previous … Read more
In January, we reported the announcement by Shanghai Tianshu Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co. about their plans to design, build, and deploy a GPU intended for GPU-compute. The company described it as a GPGPU accelerator for AI, especially training and HPC deployment. It was to be fabricated in a 7-nm process by TSMC. Shanghai Tianshu Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., commonly known (at … Read more
During the Arm V9 announcement, one of the slides shown on the Mali GPU listed new features of Arm’s plans for Mali. Arm said that ray tracing and variable-rate shading, now available in the PC via DirectX 12 Ultimate, will one day be available in Arm-powered smartphones and tablets as part of Armv9. Chips using the new v9 architecture design … Read more
Intel introduced its 11th generation Core i processors with its new 750 Iris X UHD graphics. Intel announced a full lineup of processors from the X-series Enthusiasts CPUs to the base i3. Intel is touting the integration of AI along with CPU/ GPU compute capabilities featured in the new generation. We were privileged to be able to get an i5-11600k … Read more
Arm showed its first new architecture in a decade at its recent one-day virtual conference. Arm introduces their v9 design and provided their macro view of future semiconductor development. As it turns out, from Arm’s perspective, Arm devices will control the world. All data will either be generated, processed, or transferred through and by an Arm device. Arm says it … Read more
The Radeon 8500 AIB launched by ATI in August 2001 used a 150-nm manufacturing process, for its R200 (codename, Chaplin) GPU. The AIB worked with DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 APIs. The R200 introduced several new and enhanced features, but the most noteworthy was the ATI TruForm feature. TruForm was a Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) block developed by ATI (now AMD) … Read more
AMD has generously and broadly used the designation Zen to describe various CPUs in their product line. The company’s latest offering in their server derby race is its 7nm Milan, the successor to the Rome processor. AMD says its Zen 3 architecture is 19% faster than Zen 2. Via a very slick virtual presentation, AMD executives showed the new AMD … Read more
AMD introduced its Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The new processors are designed for premium business laptops and include AMD’s hardware-based PRO technologies for enterprise-class security features. AMD addresses security on multiple levels for the new Ryzen Pro 5000 series The chips were announced with two significant design wins, one from … Read more
