Even if you’re not a tech analyst, enthusiast or hyper-connected geek that follows the industry, it was obvious that we’ve achieved major technology milestones in 2019, and the pace of innovation is now accelerating dramatically and in some areas exponentially. Artificial Intelligence (AI) was perhaps the hallmark of technological advancement this year, with its amazing potential that’s both exciting and perhaps even frightening to some.
Read MoreEarlier this month, Qualcomm unveiled its latest mobile processing engine for next generation 5G smartphones, known as the Snapdragon 865 5G Mobile Platform. The company refers to Snapdragon 865 as a “mobile platform” solution because indeed, in conjunction with its Snapdragon X55 modem, it provides a comprehensive flagship 5G smartphone silicon solution…
Read MoreBattery 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.
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreSo 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreFor 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…
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreIf 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
Read MoreGoogle 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.
Read MoreAt 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…
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