With the massive media coverage of CES, high hotel costs, and almost guaranteed postshow sickness from the petri dish of global germs originating from more than 160 countries, many people opt out of attending the event. However, many others continue to brave the chaos and for good reason. The 170,000 attendees in 2020 got to see, feel, and use things … Read more
Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with SPEC/GWPG, they take that knowledge and develop benchmarks that test real-world performance in ways that … Read more
Boxx Technologies recently announced that its APEXX T3 workstation now features the new, 3rd generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X processor—AMD’s highest performing desktop processor. Boxx is among the first workstation manufacturers to ship systems equipped with the new processor. Boxx sees the new workstation being used for rendering complex 3D scenes, encoding, or powering simulation and analysis. In such applications, … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GPU technology conference in China. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia has been holding GTC conferences around the U.S. and the world and recently held one in China. At the Chinese GTC, the company announced a deal with Didi, an app-based transportation provider (similar to Uber) to use Nvidia GPUs in its data center for … Read more
Knowing how you stand up to the competition is critical
If you like fast cars, exciting race scenes, and some pretty good acting, then treat yourself to two and half hours of terror, frustration, and thrills—go see the blockbuster movie Ford vs. Ferrari. See it on a big screen with a great sound system. The movie is a flashback to the time when need-for-speed was expressed in the development … Read more
A group of enthusiasts is proposing a new set of graphics instructions designed for 3D graphics and media processing. These new instructions are built on the RISC-V base vector instruction set. They will add support for new data types that are graphics specific as layered extensions in the spirit of the core RISC-V ISA. Vectors, transcendental math, pixel, and textures … Read more
Nvidia has been extremely clever at squeezing an ROI out of its failed efforts to enter the mobile phone and tablet business. The slick cliché slingers call it pivoting, we call it making lemonade, our cliché is better. The tiny but mighty Arm-based Tega SoC that drank too much of a mobile phone’s battery does just fine in automobiles, … Read more
Nvidia has been in the clouds for ten years or more and they know their way around. You may remember GRID, the VMware/Citrix remote computing solution that Nvidia was a part of. And then there’s GeForce Now, its game streaming platform. The company also offers Shield, cloud-based TV delivery, and of course, its render farms, cloud computer, and AI training. … Read more
Revenue for the quarter was up 16.4% from last quarter to $19.2 billion, GAAP profit was $6 billion, up 43% from last quarter—7nm queued up
Intel beat Wall Street expectations on its third-quarter financial performance sending the company’s stock up 6.9% in morning trading Friday after the chipmaker reported late-Thursday afternoon. Intel reported its calendar Q3 2019, revenues were flat year-over-year and grew significantly quarter-to-quarter. The PC-centric business and data-centric revenue increased over 10% and 28%, respectively, over the last quarter. This was the best … Read more
The GeForce Now Alliance is spreading cloud gaming severs everywhere
