At the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) currently underway at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, Xilinx is showing off a brand new member of its adaptable data center accelerator family, the Alveo U50. The Xilinx Alveo U50 is built on the company’s UtlraScale+ FPGA architecture, and targets scale-out and domain-specific acceleration of a multitude of data center workloads.
Read MoreIntel just announced the second FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) in its line-up, the Intel FPGA PAC D5005. The Intel FPGA PAC D5005 is designed for computing intensive workloads, like streaming analytics, media transcoding, financial analysis, and network security and will initially be offered in HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers.
Read MoreIt's not often you hear of anyone putting a stake in the sand claiming a 1000X improvement in anything, but that's exactly what Intel Chief Architect and SVP of the Architecture, Software and Graphics group, Raja Koduri did at the company's CREATE event at SIGGRAPH 2019 yesterday.
Read MoreToday, NVIDIA announced multiple new NVIDIA RTX Studio laptop and mobile workstation design wins, ten in total, from manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, HP, and BOXX, that target an array of market segments.
Read MoreNVIDIA isn't taking its collective foot off the gas when it comes to its gaming GPU line-up, and this morning the company has officially launched the new GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card. Fleshing out the upper-end of its new Turing-based GPU lineup for gamers…
Read MoreQualcomm's Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform powers the vast majority of flagship Android devices currently on the market, and today the company has announced a performance-optimized version of its top-end mobile SoC, dubbed Snapdragon 855 Plus.
Read MoreOn board the Snapdragon 855 platform lies key, previously untapped technology in silicon that will enable a new level of security compliance and features, along with more flexible and convenient multi-carrier connectivity in the future…
Read MoreAnother Silicon Valley bellwether just made the jump to 7nm semiconductor process technology and this time the cutting-edge chip tech is being employed on new breed of SoC (System On Chip) that can adapt to all kinds of compute and machine learning applications.
Read MoreNVIDIA used the massive Computex Information and Communication Technology event currently taking place in Taipei to make a number of key disclosures.
Read MoreWith Computex rapidly approaching, we had the chance to sit down and chat with one of the keynote speakers, Gregory M. Bryant, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Client Computing Group at Intel Corporation, to discuss some of the company’s plans for the show…
Read MoreThe global cloud gaming market is expected to explode, with some research estimates forecasting a $7 billion opportunity in the next 5 – 7 years.
Read MoreThe machine can actually detect when you approach and then log you in via facial recognition.
Read MoreWe have gotten to the point where entire movie sets and on-screen environments can be CGI and viewers are none the wiser.
Read MoreIntel's consternation with its 10nm manufacturing process is well documented but on its Q1 earnings call yesterday, the Santa Clara chip giant painted a more positive picture on the ramp-up of its forthcoming Ice Lake processor for mobile client systems, dubbed Ice Lake-U.
Read MoreIn a blockbuster $6.9 Billion dollar deal, NVIDIA moved in to acquire longtime platform partner Mellanox in an acquisition that left some pundits scratching their head.
Read MoreGaming is big business these days, from eSports to console wars to the enthusiast “PC Master Race.” However, new mediums for gaming are beginning to emerge, powered in the cloud such that the average gamer may not some day need to have their own equipment to get in on the fun.
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles require high speed processors and machine learning to accomplish impressive self-guided driving, without the the need for human direction.
Read MoreThere is a common misconception that mobile computing systems outfitted with the same processor, GPU, memory, and storage configurations, will offer nearly identical performance.
Read MoreToday marks the launch of AMD's EPYC family of processors for data center servers. Based on the company's Zen microarchitecture, it has become abundantly clear that AMD was targeting the lucrative data center market first and foremost with its new CPU architecture and the highly scalable Naples platform that leverages it.
Read MoreMicrosoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman recently said, “The phone is already dead -- people just haven’t realized.” He made this statement while discussing Microsoft’s HoloLens and potential future iterations of similar mixed-reality devices, which could be eventually be integrated into our daily lives much like the smartphone is today.
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