Your car will see you tomorrow
It will also see everything around you
You car will see you tomorrow
Before our cars can become the robot slaves we want them to be, taking us here and there and not making us tell them how or when. Before they can have some sense of vision and common sense, robot slave cars have to be able to reliably see their surrounding environment. Right now, their vision is limited. Environmental factors such … Read more
Intel has some surprises for Computex
9th gen things and more
Intel Q1 2019 results
Intel reported its calendar Q1 2019, revenues were flat year-over-year and achieved 4% growth in the PC-centric business while data-centric revenue declined 5%. “We shipped a strong mix of high-performance products and continued spending discipline while ramping 10 nm and managing a challenging NAND pricing environment. Looking ahead, we're taking a more cautious view of the year, although we expect … Read more
Intel expands its visualization framework
At FMX, Intel’s Sr. Principal Engineer, Sr. Director, Advanced Rendering and Visualization, presented updates on Intel’s Rendering Framework which includes the open source tools and libraries of Embree and OSPRay, Open SWR, and the Open Image Denoise tools. Jeffers notes that the AI/ML based Open Image Denoise, is available for integration into any program, but that it is also integrated … Read more
Intel and Nvidia announce chips for gaming notebooks and desktops
What good is a new PC with a new CPU if it doesn’t also have a new GPU? Right. So when Intel let its bestest friends in the OEM community know that they would soon be building new PCs, those OEMs also heard from Nvidia—probably just a coincidence, but lucky timing, right? So to coincide with the new new 9th … Read more
Intel’s 9th gen has the data center covered
With 25 new products coming, Intel is going for breadth
Siemens NX gets smart
Siemens’ latest version of its flagship design software, NX, has been updated with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company believes it is the first design tool to include AI and ML, but if Siemens is right on this score, it’s a feature that’s well on its way to being included in many more design and engineering tools because CAx … Read more
Intel has the data center covered
Intel used an announcement about its new Cascade Lake-based Xeon 9200 Platinum to show off all the stuff they are bringing to the data center, which introduces many multiple SKUs and a range of supporting products with the intent of giving customers the ability to build custom server applications covering HPC, AI, edge, memory, and super-sized particle chasing servers. Intel … Read more
May your life be artificial
AI technology—which various companies and the DoD want to use in predictive maintenance, and process automation, is a perfect partner to augmented reality (AR) which enables technicians and maintenance personnel to find, quickly assess and correct any performance issues, without the burden of carrying packs of outdated documents. Most medium-sized to large organizations that have been operating processes for … Read more
Compute Express Link for all
The initial Compute Express Link (CXL) specification was developed by Intel and is being donated to a new consortium. Nine companies (so far) have signed up to support the new interface. Alibaba, Cisco, Dell/EMC, Facebook, Google, HPE, Huawei, and Microsoft. “Much like our roles with Universal Serial Bus (USB) and PCI Express—and we look forward to working with the CXL … Read more
Jon Peddie Research’s Market Watch reports GPU shipments down in Q4’18 from last quarter
The PC GPU market decreased year-to-year by (3.3)%, sequentially GPU shipments decreased (2.6)%