AMD is putting out some very impressive gaming AIBs that may be overlooked by gamers in general. These boards are giving mainstream gamers impressive performance at the midrange price point. AMD’s reference design Radeon 6700 XT AIB The Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the latest graphical software suites such as DirectX 12 Ultimate and AMD’s FidelityFX5 feature set. Fidelity FX5, … Read more
Source: PocketBook E Ink launched the first generation of its Kaleido color eReader display in Q2 2020. Conceptually, the Kaleido was not unlike previous E Ink color eReader displays. That is, it was an active-matrix monochrome ePaper display with a color filter array (CFA) to provide the color. The problem with the previous versions was that the reflectivity and … Read more
Realtime has come to post. Now, what do we call it? Assimilate has added new capabilities that enable more extensive onset work and also easier, more spontaneous reviews. This is not at all shaping up to be a pandemic thing, but a logical progression for software as new hardware and software combinations enable real-time visualization. The film and video industries … Read more
Moore Threads, a GPU-based AI accelerator supplier, was founded in October 2020. Moore Threads recently closed two rounds of funding amounting to RMB 1 billion (USD 155 million), according to Winsoul Capital, who managed the placement. Liu Shanshan is the founder and executive director of Moore Threads. She was formally a senior manager at Xilinx. She founded AI chip start-up … Read more
Imagination Technologies announced that Shanghai-based StarFive, a RISC-V developer-board supplier, has licensed the IMG B-Series GPU IP to support its latest RISC-V single-board computer (SBC). Imagination thinks the collaboration will help grow the RISC-V ecosystem. StarFive is including Imagination’s GPU in the production version of its $119/$149 85mm × 70mm BeagleV AI single-board computer, announced in January 2021. StarFive says … Read more
Nvidia has added to their product line with a new GPU and made it available to their AIB partners. We received an EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 for review and found that it brings solid performance and many new features to the mid-range segment. The AIB is marketed as providing players with 1080p and 1440p gaming with features including Nvidia’s RTX ray tracing … Read more
Falanx Microsystems was spun off from a 1998 research project from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The company was founded in 2001, and the Mali GPU was introduced. It was a clever design that used very little power, making it ideal for mobile devices. ARM acquired Falanx in June 2006, and Mike Inglis, executive vice president at ARM, said … Read more
Khronos and the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), the European industry association for vision technology, announced the formation of an Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group. The group is open to all at no cost for exploring industry interest in the creation of open royalty-free API standards for controlling embedded cameras and sensors. Khronos says there are multiple vectors impinging on … Read more
(Source: Sevilay Demirci flicker.com) Pull off the display connectors and call it a mining machine. That’s basically what Nvidia did with their Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) and it’s a very clever move. Meanwhile, Nvidia is launching its GeForce RTX 3060 (on Feb. 25) for gaming. The company says it has taken an unusual step that will help make sure … Read more
Researchers at the University of Sussex in Brighton in the UK have employed GPUs in a desktop PC for a large-scale brain simulation that would typically require a supercomputer. The research builds on the work of US researcher Eugene Izhikevich who pioneered a similar method for large-scale brain simulation in 2006. Izhikevich developed a new class of models of spiking … Read more
When I said I can’t wait to try gaming on this, they said, Jon, it’s a 60-Hz monitor, not designed for gaming. Yeah, but it’s also < 5 ms monitor and it only refreshed every 16 ms; so what? The games I play only refresh in 33 ms. I’m not a twitcher, at least when gaming. I don’t need a … Read more
In his own inimitable way, Intel’s Raja Koduri lit up the web this week with his Twitter reveal of a full die shot of the 2-tile, 7-nm Intel Xe HPC GPU. The giant package has 16 clusters with 128 EUs, 1024 EUs total, and 8192 cores. It is alleged to be based on the Intel Graphics 12.5 architecture (revealed in … Read more
