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HP’s pretty new notebook and curvy display
HP has been pushing on design as well as technology to find their competitive niche. The company’s new consumer laptops with wood finishes are a delight to see and hold. Now comes the commercial version and along the way they’ve lost a little weight and gained some time. The new 13-inch Elite Dragonfly notebook weighs less than a kilogram (~ … Read more
Intel’s Gen 11 GPU
Intel is bragging about their low-power consuming 10 nm, Gen 11 integrated GPUs in the new Ice Lake processors. And they should brag, look at all the stuff they’ve crammed into the Ice Lake. The company announced its Gen 11 integrated GPU in early August and now the company is shipping the Core processors that have the new GPU design. … Read more
Intel’s new Lake processors span all segments
Intel has launched its 10th Core processors (U- and Y-series) for thin-and-light designs claiming they offer scaling for demanding, multithreaded workloads, including the flagship built-for-business Intel vPro platform The 10thGen Intel Core mobile processors include connectivity with Intel Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) and Thunderbolt 3 for fast wired and wireless speeds. The company said over 90 designs will be available … Read more
Intel flexes its AI muscles at Hot Chips
At Hot Chips 2019, Intel revealed new details of its upcoming AI accelerators: Nervana neural network processors, with the NNP-T for training and the NNP-I for inference. Intel engineers also presented technical information on hybrid chip packaging technology, Intel Optane DC persistent memory and chiplet technology for optical I/O. Intel’s vice president and general manager, for the Artificial Intelligence … Read more
Cerebras reveals world’s ‘largest computer chip’ for AI tasks
At Hot Chips, Californian-based Cerebras Systems showed the world's most massive computer chip, the Wafer Scale Engine, that is slightly bigger than a standard iPad. The firm says a single chip can drive complex AI systems in everything from driverless cars to surveillance software. Started in 2016, by CEO Andrew Feldman and Sean Lie who previously founded SeaMicro (that AMD … Read more
Intel’s long-term vision for exascale content
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Scene rendered by MoonRay (with Embree): Property of DreamWorks Animation. At Intel’s inaugural Create event at Siggraph 2019, the company outlined its vision for rendering with exascale computing and oneAPI, and reiterated its six-pillars. Jim Jeffers, Intel’s senior principal engineer and director of Advanced Rendering and Visualization, took the stage and … Read more
Ryzen 12-core and Intel 6-core
A quick comparison of two processors
Do you need a workstation?
There was a time when the definition of a workstation was crystal clear and so was the decision about having one. If you needed a workstation, you knew who you were and you knew how to get it: ask IT. Alternatively, whine, bully, and demand it from IT. And, the machine you got would have a RISC-based processor, a customized … Read more
Eurocom rolls out a 2.5-kg, 15-inch mobile notebook
Eurocom has introduced its latest laptop, the Eurocom Nightsky RX15, a 15.6-inch system with a Retina-type OLED panel from Samsung. The company says the Nightsky RX15 was designed for a variety of users ranging from architects, designers of all kinds, graphics, audio, and video professionals, up to gamers who require high-performance, on-the-go computing at under 2.5 kg. The laptop comes … Read more
Innovative laptops shown at Computex
In addition to the HP leather accented launch reported earlier, some of the other notebooks introduced at Computex were equally interesting. Some of them were concept devices and may never be commercially available, but the ideas are inspiring nonetheless. The many faces of dual screen notebooks The added weight, cost, and power drain of a large second screen might make … Read more
Intel at Computex
I’m so glad I didn’t go to Computex this year. It’s not the humidity, or the torrential rains, or even 130,000 people in my way at the show. No, it’s the almost overwhelming slew of new products all at once. A firehose treatment my little brain can’t absorb. Intel had over a half dozen significant things to show. From new … Read more