The new normal is not normal, and may not be again for a long time. Q2 which has traditionally been a down quarter was up for Intel year-to-year, and flat quarter-to-quarter. But Q3 is being guided down, and Intel still is dealing with manufacturing issues—the new normal. By midday the day after Intel’s report, AMD soared over 15% while Intel … Read more
University of Florida HiPerGator The University of Florida announced a public-private partnership with Nvidia to build the fastest AI supercomputer in academia capable of 700 petaflops AI performance. The University says the new computer will catapult UF’s research strength to address some of the world’s most formidable challenges, create unprecedented access to AI training and tools for underrepresented communities, and … Read more
A beautiful atmospheric game with no story, little action
I want it. I want it now! Jensen Huang, CEO of premium brand Nvidia, said, “No longer will the best moment of your car experience be at the point of the sale. In the future, that will be the starting point of one’s experience with a beautiful Mercedes-Benz.” What he was talking about is the newly announced partnership between Mercedes-Benz … Read more
PC GPU market shipments decreased -5.3% sequentially from last quarter but increased 14.9% year-to-year.
As an artificial agent plays the GAN-generated game, GameGAN responds to the agent’s actions, generating new frames of the game environment in realtime
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Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations with their financial report and saw increases from all reporting segments. Revenue for the first quarter was $3.08 billion, up 39%from $2.22 billion a year earlier, and down 1% from $3.11 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, but that’s a 25% increase from … Read more
Nvidia has been pushing the envelope on graphics chips since it integrated the geometry processor and pixel shader into one chip and called it a GPU, 21 years ago. The potential for GPUs then vastly expanded in 2003 when a branch of development spiked out of GPU applications that took advantage of the GPUs parallel processing for pure computation using … Read more
AMD was one of the first consumer graphics companies to enter the professional graphics space in 1994 (Matrox being the first in 1987). Naturally, ATI with its economy of scale took a commanding lead in the fledgling COTS workstation AIB market, dominated at the time by proprietary solutions. As the workstation market moved into COTS CPUs, led by Dell, COTS … Read more
ATI, founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., in Thornhill Canada just outside of Toronto, was a pioneer in the graphics chip and add-in board market. It was acquired by AMD in 2006 and formed what is now the Radeon Technology Group. In the fall of 1995, ATI announced its first combination of 2D, 3D, and MPEG-1 accelerator chip … Read more
Increasing the yield by using smaller die could offset the flattening of Moore’s Law.
