GPUs
VESA this morning is taking the wraps off of the next iteration of its DisplayHDR monitor certification standard, DisplayHDR 1.2. Designed to raise the bar on display quality, the updated DisplayHDR conformance test suite imposes new luminance, color gamut, and color accuracy requirements that extend across the entire spectrum of DisplayHDR tiers – including the entry-level DisplayHDR 400 tier. With vendors able to begin certifying displays for the new standard immediately, the display technology group is aiming to address the advancements in the display technology market over the last several years, while enticing display manufacturers to make use of them to deliver better desktop and laptop displays than before. Altogether, the DisplayHDR 1.2 is easily the biggest update to the standard since it launched in...
NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 2050, MX570, and MX550 For Laptops: 2022's Entry Level GeForce
NVIDIA this morning had made an unexpected news drop with the announcement of a trio of new GeForce laptop GPUs. Joining the GeForce family next year will be a...
18 by Ryan Smith on 12/17/2021AMD’s Instinct MI250X: Ready For Deployment at Supercomputing
One of the big announcements at AMD’s Data Center event a couple of weeks ago was the announcement of its CDNA2 based compute accelerator, the Instinct MI250X. The MI250X...
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/18/2021Intel: Sapphire Rapids With 64 GB of HBM2e, Ponte Vecchio with 408 MB L2 Cache
This week we have the annual Supercomputing event where all the major High Performance Computing players are putting their cards on the table when it comes to hardware, installations...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/15/2021NVIDIA Launches A2 Accelerator: Entry-Level Ampere For Edge Inference
Alongside a slew of software-related announcements this morning from NVIDIA as part of their fall GTC, the company has also quietly announced a new server GPU product for the...
16 by Ryan Smith on 11/9/2021AMD Announces Instinct MI200 Accelerator Family: Taking Servers to Exascale and Beyond
AMD today is formally unveiling their AMD Instinct MI200 family of server accelerators. Based on AMD’s new CDNA 2 architecture, the MI200 family is the capstone AMD’s server GPU...
61 by Ryan Smith on 11/8/2021Updated: Intel Cans Xe-HP Server GPU Products, Shifts Focus To Xe-HPC and Xe-HPG
Update 11/01: In an additional tweet posted over the weekend by Raja Koduri, the Intel GPU frontman confirmed that Intel will be bringing products based on their Xe-HPG architecture to...
48 by Ryan Smith on 11/1/2021AMD Reports Q3 2021 Earnings: Records All Around
Continuing our earnings season coverage for Q3’21, today we have the yin to Intel’s yang, AMD. The number-two x86 chip and discrete GPU maker has been enjoying explosive growth...
35 by Ryan Smith on 10/26/2021Intel Reaffirms: Our Discrete GPUs Will Be On Shelves in Q1 2022
Today is when Intel does its third-quarter 2021 financial disclosures, and there’s one little tidbit in the earnings presentation about its upcoming new discrete GPU offerings. The earnings are...
75 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/21/2021SK Hynix Announces Its First HBM3 Memory: 24GB Stacks, Clocked at up to 6.4Gbps
Though the formal specification has yet to be ratified by JEDEC, the memory industry as a whole is already gearing up for the upcoming launch of the next generation...
19 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2021AMD Launches Radeon RX 6600: More Mainstream Gaming For $329
AMD this morning is once again expanding its Radeon RX 6000 family of video cards, this time with the addition of a second, cheaper mainstream offering: the Radeon RX...
46 by Ryan Smith on 10/13/2021ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition Announced
One thing Noctua is famed for, other than its high-end design and engineering team delivering top quality air-cooling products, is the brown/beige color scheme. Some users may detest the...
51 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/4/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Graphics (Intel, AMD, Google, Xilinx)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/24/2021Hot Chips 2021 Keynote Live Blog: Designing Chips with AI, Synopsys
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021Intel Architecture Day 2021: Intel Unveils XeSS Image Upscaling Technology
Alongside a sneak peek at their forthcoming Xe-HPG architecture, the other big reveal today from Intel’s consumer graphics group comes from the software side of the business. Along with...
45 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2021Intel Architecture Day 2021: A Sneak Peek At The Xe-HPG GPU Architecture
For Intel’s 2021 Architecture Day presentations, the yin to the CPU company’s traditional yang is GPUs. Intel has spent the last few years preparing to enter the market for...
72 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2021Intel Video Cards Get a Brand Name: Arc, Starting with "Alchemist" in Q1 2022
After several months of various teasers, Intel is finally starting to put the band together for their first high-performance discrete GPUs and video cards. This morning the company is...
56 by Ryan Smith on 8/16/2021NVIDIA Announces RTX A2000 Video Card: Low Profile & Low Power for ProViz
As part of a suite of SIGGRAPH-related announcements, NVIDIA this morning is announcing a new addition to their RTX line of professional video cards, the RTX A2000. Following NVIDIA’s...
33 by Ryan Smith on 8/10/2021AMD Announces Radeon RX 6600 XT: Mainstream RDNA2 Lands August 11th For $379
Starting next month, AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 desktop product stack is about to get a little deeper – and a little cheaper – with the addition of the forthcoming...
66 by Ryan Smith on 7/29/2021AMD Reports Q2 2021 Earnings: Company-wide Growth Drives Doubled Revenue
Continuing our Q2 earnings coverage this month, AMD is next out the gate in reporting their earnings. And, has been the story now for most of the last year...
105 by Ryan Smith on 7/27/2021Cadence Cerebrus to Enable Chip Design with ML: PPA Optimization in Hours, not Months
The design of most leading edge processors and ASICs rely on steps of optimization, with the three key optimization points being Performance, Power, and Area (and sometimes Cost). Once...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/22/2021