Intel Xside
A Wonderful New Look—back to the future
Pixelworks’ AI-based video processor
San Jose based Pixelworks is announcing the i6 processor, its sixth generation mobile visual processor, and the first with low-power AI tech (built on the Company’s mobile display datasets). AI comes into place to adaptively optimize picture quality. The i6 processor, says the company, uses AI to intelligently upscale the dynamic range of video and gaming content while concurrently optimizing … Read more
Intel launches EVO
After months of leaks, rumors, and speculation, Intel formally and officially released the details of its 11-generation processor, code-named Tiger Lake. The processor leverages Intel’s SuperFin 10 nm process and introduces Intel’s first integrated Iris Xe GPU claiming 2× the performance over the previous generation — 2× is a lot. The CPU and other processors as well as the communications … Read more
Pixelworks’ AI-based video processor
San Jose based Pixelworks is announcing the i6 processor, its sixth generation mobile visual processor, and the first with low-power AI tech (built on the Company’s mobile display datasets).
Intel launches EVO
11th Gen core and new thinner, lighter platform
What if Intel bought Arm?
Switzerland maintained, Nvidia denied
What if what if?
If Nvidia did go for Arm, which I think would be a brilliant move, that would be a serious blow to Intel, and a potential torpedo for the open-source RISC-V adventure, of which Nvidia is a participant.
Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence
Source: Depositphotos Leonardo Chiariglione, an Italian engineer best known as the co-founder and former chairman of MPEG, is proposing to establish a new organization called Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI). The organization will have a twofold mission: to develop standards for compression of video, audio, and data, and to bridge the gap between its … Read more
Acer unveils a slew of new notebooks
Image credit: Acer Founded in 1976, Acer has been expanding and enhancing its footprint in the notebook market for 15 years, and each new introduction has been impressive. This year is not different when at Acer’s virtual press conference the company rolled out four new notebooks, a desktop unit, and a gaming chair as well as an energy drink … Read more
An Apple Arm a day keeps the Intel away
Arm photo credit Jude Beck Rumors of Apple designing and using its own CPU began back in 2008 when the company bought P.A. Semi, a 150-person chip company in Santa Clara, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl, who was a lead designer for the well-regarded Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment in the 1990s. … Read more
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P mobile workstations
Three 15-inch and a 17-inch with WS dGPUs
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P mobile workstations
Lenovo has launched the next generation of the ThinkPad P Series: the ThinkPad P15, ThinkPad P17, ThinkPad P1 Gen 3, and the new ThinkPad P15v. In addition, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 will also make its debut. Lenovo makes the bold claim that the new ThinkPad 1 the most powerful X Series commercial laptop. All the laptops are equipped … Read more