Intel

Intel builds on the RealSense family

Intel is building on its computer vision family of products with a new RealSense camera, the T265. It is an inside out tracking device, meaning it does not rely on sensors outside the device or GPS for its location tracking. The new camera is Intel’s latest product for computing at the edge and will enhance VR and AR apps and … Read more

Intel Q4 2018 results — announces CEO appointment

Intel has reported its results for calendar Q4 2018. Revenues were up 9.3% year-over-year showing strength across the businesses. The company is expressing optimism even as it searches for a new CEO and was forced to present a low-key keynote for CES this year.   “A number of geopolitical dynamics are going to weigh on ultimate consumers and enterprise desires to … Read more

CES 2019, a gap year

The gadget show of the year showcased new tech in all categories: from health care to TVs, cars, and robots. The darlings of the past, like 3D printing and VR, didn’t get quite the same play but cars and their entertainment systems are always there as are new TVs and PCs.  The CES Innovation awards are a little like third-grade … Read more

Keeping up a Moore’s Law pace … with or without Moore’s Law

As a sign of its renewed focus on constructing and articulating a coherent strategy for the future, Intel recently held an industry analyst summit, the first in four years. The confluence of the slowing of Moore’s Law transistor scaling, a rapidly transitioning computing paradigm from distributed, local clients to data-rich clouds, and energized competition from competing providers of high-performance silicon … Read more

Famous graphics chips: EGA to VGA

This is the third in a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors, that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. When IBM introduced the Intel 8080-based Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, it was equipped with an add-in board (AIB) called the Color Graphics Adaptor (CGA). The CGA AIB had 16 kilobytes of video memory … Read more

Intel Q3 2018 results

Intel reported its calendar Q3 2018, revenues were up 19% year-over-year driven, says the company, by strength across the business and customer demand for performance-leading Intel platforms. ”Stronger than expected customer demand across our PC and data-centric businesses continued in the third quarter. This drove record revenue and another raise to our full-year outlook,” said Bob Swan, Intel CFO and … Read more

@Xi packs more punch in core-based workstations

Intel offers their Xeon brand CPU as the preferred solution for high-performance workstations. OEMs like Dell, Fujitsu, HP, and Lenovo tote the line and offer workstations based on Xeons. A couple of mavericks also offer workstations based on core in processors. When Intel introduced the Core i9 (Gen 8), there wasn’t an equivalent Xeon processor, and so boutique workstation suppliers … Read more

Xilinx — from chips to Socs, to AIBS

Xilinx held its annual Xilinx Developer’s Forum (XDF) in San Jose at the ritzy Fairmount hotel. The place was packed and rightly so because Xilinx had a lot to say. Best known for its FPGA, which its stuck in all kinds of systems and machines, the company has building a broad and deep infrastructure for the past three years beginning … Read more

VPU—Evolution of an acronym

In 1992, Pixel, a subsidiary of Circus Logic, introduced two new digital video chips, the CL-PX2070 and CL-PX2080. Those chips were the most sophisticated and complex chips for multimedia and video applications we had seen and were designed to process and display multiple streams of full motion video at the same time. The PX2070 had four major functional units: the … Read more

Dell at Gamescom

Gamescom saw the introduction of new products from Dell under the brand name of Alienware and Dell. Dell used the event to preview new products coming soon in the September 2018 time frame.  Dell showed two new Dell monitors and Alienware gaming laptops & desktops. Dell launched its 24-inch and 27-inch monitors with  AMD Freesync support for a smooth gaming … Read more