Remember when anyone who had a tech company had a blockchain strategy? It’s happening again, Batman. AMD has announced that it’s joining the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA). The company says it is partnering with Robot Cache and Ultra to promote the development and proliferation of blockchain-based PC gaming. This is a movement in the making. The activities listed on the Blockchain … Read more
Performance: relative to its predecessor and the most comparable Nvidia offering
Nvidia significantly increases market share in the quarter
The evolution of graphics processors has profoundly changed over the last 20 years. The first specialized graphics architectures were almost purely fixed-function and could only accelerate a very limited range of computation such as geometry or lighting transformations. Programmable shaders gave developers new levels of capabilities, but with allocated functionality. Unified shaders offered dynamic load balancing and advanced branching. … Read more
Intel abandons its Kaby Lake multi-chip fix
The long-rumored and highly anticipated AMD RX5500 GPU is here, well it will be here soon. AMD is only announcing the GPU, one for mobile (RX5500m) and one for desktop (5500 Series), and the company’s AIB partners will build the mainstream boards based on the chip. That’s the fashion with AMD and Nvidia: build the high-end and midrange AIBs, … Read more
AMD came to IBC, full of confidence after a successful Siggraph, increasing interest from Hollywood for Threadripper, and automatic cred from Apple with the upcoming Apple Mac Pro. At the show, AMD showed off its range of products including a sleek little MacBook Pro, nothing special, hooked up to a Black Magic external box giving the MacBook Pro enough GPU … Read more
AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q2 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “I am pleased with our financial performance and execution in the quarter as we ramped production of three leadership 7-nm product families,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We have reached … Read more
A cloud of radioactive material settled over Ukraine and Belarus after a critical failure blew apart a Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station reactor in 1986. The resulting death toll had exceeded 4,000. Twenty years later, we got our first view of Stalker at an Nvidia conference where they showed some clips of it. It was amazing than with debris, bits of … Read more
AMD reported its quarter results for calendar Q1 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “We delivered solid first quarter results with significant gross margin expansion as Ryzen and EPYC processor and datacenter GPU revenue more than doubled year-over-year,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We … Read more
If you believed, you’d a lot richer today
AMD used its trip to NAB to showcase the latest additions to ProRender new partnerships and plugins. AMD is driving hard with rendering for 2019 including performance boosts. AMD is updating plug-ins for Max, Maya, and Blender. At AMD, the company was also celebrating its integration into the latest version of the Foundry’s Modo, which was introduced in March 2019. The latest updates … Read more
