Qualcomm changes CEOs and buys CPU company Nuvia, Intel rehires Pat Gelsinger, Jim Keller takes over Canadian AI company, AMD announces Ryzen 5000 and the majority of gaming notebooks, Nvidia brings ray tracing to the masses with RTX3600, Dell and HP introduce massive monitors as well as 15- and 17-inch notebooks. Qualcomm and Nvidia announce they are the partner of … Read more
Dell just announced a slick 40-inch 5K display (see story this issue), and Acer has a new 27-in 4k 275 Hz display. Those are nice, but… if you want a big, really BIG, display then you’re going to have to buy a car. Not just any car, but an expensive car—a Mercedes-Benz, Baby. The curved screen unit stretches almost the … Read more
Founded in early 1993, Nvidia set out to revolutionize the PC and console gaming market with 3D. They succeeded beyond even their wildest dreams, but not without a few bumps and bruises to make them smarter and stronger. The company was founded on the plan to develop single-chip media accelerators for interactive multimedia on PCs.¹ “We intend to focus our … Read more
AMD gains in market share
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
The steady arrivals of new processor cores and new products built around them can only mean one thing…the holidays are coming! While all the little children wait for turkey, pumpkins, pie, treats, lights, parties, and on and on, the people in the tech industry have their own elves—Jensen, Lisa, Tim, Bob. Jon Peddie does his best, to sum up, what … Read more
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
(Source: KPF. Beijing Century City) As mentioned in my Siggraph blog, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted the way content is created and consumed. Work now often involves teams dispersed worldwide, working remotely on high-resolution content while using multiple workloads and requiring massive computing resources. Nvidia has contributed with the new RTX A6000 and A40 AIBs that use the 8 … Read more
Nvidia announced a partnership with VMware. The companies plan to deliver an end-to-end platform for AI in the enterprise and new architecture. The architecture says Nvidia can be used for data centers, cloud, and edge systems that use Nvidia’s DPUs (data processing units) to support existing and next-generation applications. Nvidia’s DPU AIB. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia will bring its AI … Read more
Platforms are key to success
When 3D graphics controllers were just immerging in the late 1990s, one company in particular, 3Dfx, experimented with ways to scale up the performance of accelerating the 3D gameplay
In 2009 rumors started about the possibility of Nvidia acquiring AMD to give Nvidia a CPU capability. In 2011 Jensen Huang settled the subject decisively when he said, Arm is our CPU. Nine years later he put the period on that statement when he announced the acquisition of Arm for $40 billion. The rumor that Nvidia might acquire Arm has … Read more
