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Dell Latitude Series Battery Life Validation - A Competitive Analysis

Dell Latitude Series Battery Life Validation - A Competitive Analysis

Battery life is often one of, if not the, most important consideration for general consumers and IT departments when contemplating the purchase of a new notebook (or fleet of notebooks). Having the ability to enjoy a full PC experience or be productive while mobile and untethered from an electrical outlet for hours on end has transformed how – and where -- we do business and entertain ourselves in recent years. For many road warriors, longer battery life directly translates into increased productivity, so maximum untethered uptime is paramount.

Dave AltavillaNovember 30, 2019DellComment

Real-Time Ray Tracing In Games Doesn’t Necessarily Require Pricey Hardware

Real-Time Ray Tracing In Games Doesn’t Necessarily Require Pricey Hardware

A prevailing — but incorrect — notion is that you need at least a $650 GeForce RTX 2080 card to get good performance with ray tracing enabled. That’s only true perhaps, if you’re the type that needs to game at ultra-high resolutions with absolute max image quality settings. However, at a FHD 1080p resolution, which is what the vast majority of mainstream gamers use, you may be surprised to learn that the lowest cost GeForce RTX card – currently the GeForce RTX 2060 — can get the job done quite well…

Marco ChiappettaNovember 25, 2019NVIDIAComment

Dropbox And Other Major Apps Need To Get On Board With Windows On Snapdragon

Dropbox And Other Major Apps Need To Get On Board With Windows On Snapdragon

So what gives Adobe, Slack, Dropbox? And heck, while we’re at it, let’s throw some very popular mainstream, graphically-efficient game titles like Fortnite into the mix as well. The writing is on the wall with respect to Windows on Snapdragon and its always-connected, highly power-efficient advantages.

Dave AltavillaNovember 21, 2019QualcommComment

MLPerf Inference Benchmarks Show NVIDIA Strength, Company Expands Jetson AI Edge Offerings

MLPerf Inference Benchmarks Show NVIDIA Strength, Company Expands Jetson AI Edge Offerings

A few months back, I wrote about the MLPerf consortium and the release of its Inference v0.5 benchmark. MLPerf had previously disclosed some performance results from its Training v0.6 benchmark, but training is only part of the machine learning equation. It is when the training process is complete and weightings have been assigned to the dataset that a neural network can intelligently infer things from that data — this process is what is referred to as inference.

Marco ChiappettaNovember 6, 2019NVIDIAComment

Intel Xe DG1 Discrete GPU Silicon Is Alive And Being Validated In Intel’s Labs

Intel Xe DG1 Discrete GPU Silicon Is Alive And Being Validated In Intel’s Labs

For the past couple of years, Intel has been uncharacteristically vocal about its plans to enter the discrete GPU market, to take on graphics stalwarts AMD and NVIDIA in both consumer PCs and the data center. Historically, entities like Intel have kept details of unreleased, forward-looking products hush-hush until they are much closer to being introduced.

Marco ChiappettaOctober 26, 2019IntelComment

NVIDIA GeForce NOW Goes Live In Russia, What It Means For Cloud Gaming

NVIDIA GeForce NOW Goes Live In Russia, What It Means For Cloud Gaming

To date, LG U+ has introduced a GeForce NOW trial in Korea, in association with a mobile subscription plan, and Softbank recently kicked-off pre-registrations in Japan for free beta that is slated to launch this winter. And today at the IgroMir Expo, a large video gaming event currently underway in Moscow, SAFMAR Group introduced the GeForce NOW service in Russia.

Dave AltavillaOctober 3, 2019NVIDIAComment

Xilinx Unveils Vitis, Breakthrough Open-Source Design Software For Adaptable Processing Engines

Xilinx Unveils Vitis, Breakthrough Open-Source Design Software For Adaptable Processing Engines

As part of its evolving strategy, Silicon Valley bellwether Xilinx has been integrating this adaptive technology into platform accelerator solutions for machine learning, as well as domain specific architecture solutions that incorporate various compute resources like ARM cores, high speed IO and even RF functions.

Dave AltavillaOctober 1, 2019XilinxComment

Qualcomm Is Dead-Set On Bringing 5G To The Masses Sooner Than Later

Qualcomm Is Dead-Set On Bringing 5G To The Masses Sooner Than Later

For some time now, Qualcomm has been evangelizing the idea that a next generation 5G wireless rollout will arrive significantly faster than previous generation 4G networks did back in the day. Today, putting its money where its mouth is, the company has made a number of announcements at the IFA show in Berlin that not only underscore the depth and breadth of its commitment to 5G, but also help shape the mainstream 5G landscape…

Dave AltavillaSeptember 6, 2019QualcommComment

Qualcomm Debuts Family Of Wi-Fi 6 Pro Series Platforms To Boost Wireless Network Performance

Qualcomm Debuts Family Of Wi-Fi 6 Pro Series Platforms To Boost Wireless Network Performance

With the rapid proliferation of wirelessly connected smart devices, the need for more advanced Wi-Fi networks that offer greater capacity, reliability, range, and performance has never been greater. To that end, a number of players have announced bleeding edge 802.11ax, or Wi-Fi 6, chipsets for various networking applications, including Qualcomm, which just unveiled an extensive array of Pro Series platforms that target a number of different performance segments.

Marco ChiappettaAugust 27, 2019Qualcomm Comment

Ray Tracing Comes To Minecraft And It Looks Fabulous On NVIDIA RTX

Ray Tracing Comes To Minecraft And It Looks Fabulous On NVIDIA RTX

If there was any doubt in your mind that real-time ray tracing was the wave of the future for cutting-edge gaming and 3D graphics, one of the most popular game titles of all time, Minecraft, just got a full scene RT makeover and it looks gloriously good. Mojang, Microsoft and NVIDIA just announced in a Gamescom 2019 unveil that full-scene, path-based ray tracing will be made available in Minecraft

Dave AltavillaAugust 19, 2019NVIDIAComment

NVIDIA Breakthrough Brings Real-Time Conversational AI Within Reach

NVIDIA Breakthrough Brings Real-Time Conversational AI Within Reach

Google open-sourced BERT so that others could train their own conversational question answering systems. And today, NVIDIA announced that its AI compute platform was the first to train BERT in less than an hour and complete AI inference in just over 2 milliseconds.

Marco ChiappettaAugust 14, 2019nvidiaComment

Xilinx Debuts Alveo U50 Accelerator To Boost Data Center Compute, Network, And Storage Workloads

Xilinx Debuts Alveo U50 Accelerator To Boost Data Center Compute, Network, And Storage Workloads

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.

Dave AltavillaAugust 6, 2019XilinxComment

Intel Unveils New High-Performance Intel PAC D5005 Accelerator For Compute Intensive Workloads

Intel Unveils New High-Performance Intel PAC D5005 Accelerator For Compute Intensive Workloads

Intel 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.

Marco ChiappettaAugust 5, 2019IntelComment

Intel Exec Jeffers Details Strategy For Lofty Goal Of 1000X Gain In Content Creation Workflow

Intel Exec Jeffers Details Strategy For Lofty Goal Of 1000X Gain In Content Creation Workflow

It'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.

Dave AltavillaJuly 31, 2019IntelComment

NVIDIA Woos Creators With 10 New RTX Studio Laptops And Mobile Workstations

NVIDIA Woos Creators With 10 New RTX Studio Laptops And Mobile Workstations

Today, 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.

Marco ChiappettaJuly 29, 2019NVIDIA Comment

NVIDIA Gives Gamers A Free Performance Boost With GeForce RTX 2080 Super

NVIDIA Gives Gamers A Free Performance Boost With GeForce RTX 2080 Super

NVIDIA 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…

Dave AltavillaJuly 23, 2019NVIDIAComment

Qualcomm Amps Up Mobile Gaming, AI, VR And 5G With Snapdragon 855 Plus

Qualcomm Amps Up Mobile Gaming, AI, VR And 5G With Snapdragon 855 Plus

Qualcomm'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.

Dave AltavillaJuly 15, 2019QualcommComment

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Powered Android Phones Just Got More Secure And Better Connected

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Powered Android Phones Just Got More Secure And Better Connected

On 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…

Dave AltavillaJune 25, 2019Comment

Xilinx Ships Versal, A New Breed Of Adaptable Processing Engines For AI, Cloud, 5G And More

Xilinx Ships Versal, A New Breed Of Adaptable Processing Engines For AI, Cloud, 5G And More

Another 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.

Dave AltavillaJune 18, 2019XilinxComment

NVIDIA Turing GPU Adoption Propels Ray-Tracing Further In Mainstream Gaming

NVIDIA Turing GPU Adoption Propels Ray-Tracing Further In Mainstream Gaming

NVIDIA used the massive Computex Information and Communication Technology event currently taking place in Taipei to make a number of key disclosures.

Marco ChiappettaMay 30, 2019NVIDIA Comment