Image credit: Intel Intel recently revealed the H3C XG310, a GPU AIB targeted at cloud gaming and media streaming. The AIB has four of Intel’s new Server GPUs, DG1dGPU based on the Xe-LP microarchitecture. Each dGPU has 96 execution units and 8GB of LPDDR4X memory. There is a 128-bit memory bus, and Intel fabs the chip on its 10nm SuperFin … Read more
In July 2020, Stratasys added the J55 compact to its line of J series multijet printers, which can now print multiple colors, textures, and materials, all in the same run. Stratasys has been actively building a pipeline for its printers through the 3MF consortium which will enable designers to create a prototype in less time with more realism. Stratasys has … Read more
AMD announced its new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator AIB. The company claims it is the world’s fastest HPC GPU and the first to surpass 10 teraflops (FP64). AMD assessed performance in their labs using their new MI100 32GB HBM2 AIB and ran it with a 1,502 MHz peak boost engine clock. That resulted in 11.54 TFLOPS peak double precision (FP64). … Read more
(Source: Apple) The heart of Apple’s three new PC, Air, Mac Pro, and Mini is Apple’s new SoC, the M1, announced on the 10th of November 2020. Apple has built SoCs for its smartphones and MP3 players for almost two decades, so this is not a new adventure for the company. The M1 differs from the iPhone’s A13 Bionic … Read more
It is amusing to a long time follower of this industry, to describe a midrange AIB that sells for $500 as not too expensive, but that’s how the average selling prices have moved led by Nvidia. Nvidia is positioning its RTX 3070 as a replacement for the RTX 2070 or RTX 2080 Ti. Nvidia introduced the RTX 2070 in October 2018 at … Read more
(Source: Clker-Free-Vector-Images) Intel has been laying the groundwork for its new, Xe line of discrete GPUs (dGPU). The company has a long history in graphics, determined this time to avoid past mistakes. Intel has taken several runs building a discrete graphics chip to take on the market leaders. But the company has had a challenging time. They never seemed … Read more
Shapr3D is getting a lot of press lately and the company has big plans. The five-year-old company has developed a “mobile-first” 3D CAD tool for conceptualization, 3D printing, and MCAD. Actually, right now it is an iPad-first 3D design tool and the company is targeting the iPad Pro for its added features including Lidar, as well as mouse, trackpad, and … Read more
AMD was rightfully proud of its RDNA-based RX5000 series AIBs. They won awards, benchmarks, and quite a few customers. But that was April 2018, and the product line only spanned from low-end to midrange. Enter RDNA2, big Navi, RX6n00. Take a seat in the front row son, you ain’t seen nothing yet. AMD says the RDNA2 has a 30% higher … Read more
(Source: DxOmark) DxOmark can trace its roots back to the early 2000s when DxO Labs founded it as the image quality evaluation division. It worked primarily with phone manufacturers to profile displays and publish its evaluations to help rank phone displays. In September 2017, DxO Labs spun out DxOmark as an independent privately-owned company. Founded by photographers and scientists in the early 2000s, … Read more
If you read my article on multi-GPUs you know that SLI and Crossfire have been retired, and Nvidia has introduced NVLink. The intrepid Mark Poppin of BabelTech Reviews wanted to find out if adding a second AIB could actually improve performance. He hooked up an Nvidia RTX 3090 FE and an RTX 2080 Ti (adding up to ~ $2,800 of … Read more
(Source: Sony) Sony Electronics announced the debut of its Spatial Reality Display (SR Display), a new Stereo 3D display made with Sony’s Eye-Sensing Light Field Display (ELFD) technology. The display does not require virtual reality glasses or a headset. The display uses a 4K panel with micro-optical lenticular lens. (Source: Sony) In the past, such displays which used … Read more
Alienware has always been a style leader. The company epitomized that with the revolutionary Area 51 chassis. There’s not much you can do with a monitor design-wise. A big flat panel on a stand is pretty hard to make sexy. Nonetheless, the company has carried through with its sense of design to create monitors with distinctive style and with features … Read more
