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Good week for AMD

Following on the heels of the big Samsung deal, AMD got another boost on Monday when Apple announced the Mac Pro workstation based on AMD graphics AIBs. Apple has about 8% market share of a 5.5-million units market, so the company can look forward to something north of 500k high-end (high-margin) AIBs being sold to Apple. If you’re interested in … Read more

Samsung leads with new TV technology at CES

Samsung’s advertising for The Wall suggests the giant screens are much more than TVs, which makes sense in what may be the start of a post-TV era. (Source: Samsung)   This year's biggest TV screens at CES this year, and last, was Samsung's The Wall. The largest, so far, is a 210-inch MicroLED TV, a vision of excess, which Samsung suggests might … Read more

Your next Audi will be entertaining

“Audi thrives to bring the most exciting, yet the safest automobiles when we vision the drive of tomorrow,” said Alfons Pfaller, head of Architecture & Platform Development E/E at Audi. “Samsung has been a valued technology partner over the past few years and we are extremely pleased to have the Exynos Auto V9 power our next-generation platform that will shape … Read more

Micron reveals its strategy for growth in the memory and storage markets

Micron Technology, in its 40th year and flush with new revenues from the huge amounts of memory being used by data centers, AI, gaming, visualization, etc., announced at the new event, Insight ’18, its future plans that include support for AI startups and developers. Micron staked out its position as being at the front of several technology transitions and highlighted … Read more

If you thought five was good, wait till you see six

Samsung is the first to announce the availability of JEDEC GDDR6 CMOS 8 Gb through 16 Gb x16 dual channel SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory) memory devices for use in advanced graphics processing for gaming devices and graphics cards as well as automotive, network and artificial intelligence systems. “Beginning with this early production of the industry’s first 16Gb GDDR6,” … Read more

Color calibration in TV displays

Samsung and Portrait displays team up for HDR calibration in your home Portrait Displays announced its expanded partnership with Samsung Electronics for color calibration in TV displays through its CalMAN software. The auto calibration tool is expected to become available simultaneously with Samsung’s 2018 QLED TV lineup. Portrait Displays‘ CalMAN software is the video calibration solution used by most professional … Read more

GDDR6 is available—or is it?

Three fabs are producing , expect to see in AIBs later this year Although a lot of people thought the highly parallel high bandwidth 3D memory (HBM) would be the logical heir to GDDR for graphics AIBs, its price and manufacturing costs outweigh its benefits in some cases. Therefore, to be as flexible as possible, the AIB builders need the … Read more