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AMD and Intel—Together at Last

by Jon Peddie

As much as I hate to give Kyle Bennett of HardOCP credit for anything other than being fastest driver in Texas, it turns out he may also be the fastest news reporter too. Way …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Intel| Vol 24 - Issue 42

AMD Ryzen APUs Aimed at Ultrabooks

by Bob Raikes

AMD has released new APUs in its Ryzen series that integrate Zen microprocessors and the latest Vega GPUs and expects them to be used in high end ultrabooks. The company claims that its 15W …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Nvidia Halts Distribution of GeForce Cards to Server and HPC Clients

by Andrew Fenn

Nvidia has made a bold and controversial move, preventing distributors from selling GeForce graphics cards to their server and high-performance computer (HPC) clients, in favour of its professional—and more expensive—Quadro and Tesla products. Nvidia’s …

Tags:GPUs| Graphics Cards| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Close to GTX 1080

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia has introduced the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti which joins the Pascal gaming line up between the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. Memory is 8GB and the board design is intended to be …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Razer Updates Blade Stealth Laptop And Core V2 GPU Box

by Bob Raikes

Razer announced the new Blade Stealth laptop featuring Intel’s latest 8th generation quad-core processor and the Razer Core V2 external graphics enclosure. Razer Blade Stealth laptop featuring Intel’s latest 8th generation quad-core processor The …

Tags:External GPU (eGPU)| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| Razer| Vol 24 - Issue 39

AMD Embedded GPU Runs Five UHD Displays

by Bob Raikes

AMD announced the Embedded Radeon E9170 Series GPU which r is the ​first “Polaris” architecture-baseddiscrete GPU available in multi-chip module (MCM) format with integrated memory. Applications are for digital casino games, thin clients, medical …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 37

AMD Hosts Ventuz for Fast 3D

by Bob Raikes

AMD had a booth at the show and, as usual, had both plenty of news and enthusiasm. We first talked with Ventuz, a German company based in Munich and that specialises in live AV …

Tags:AMD| Benchmarks| GPUs| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 35

PowerVR Upgraded for Lower Cost UHD

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies has new PowerVR GPUs for cost-sensitive devices. The PowerVR Series9XE and 9XM GPUs maintain fillrate density and are said to provide a significant boost in performance density. The chips are designed for …

Tags:Chips| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Imagination Sold to Chinese-backed Fund

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies of the UK has been sold to Canyon-bridge Capital Partners, a private equity fund, for £55 million, a 47.4% premium to the share price on the day before the company was put …

Tags:GPUs| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 36

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Now Tested

by Bob Raikes

AMD has released its Radeon RX Vega 64 which is a replacement for the Radeon Fury X and Radeon Fury, the RX Vega 64 is manufactured based on the 14nm FinFet architecture, incorporating 64 …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 35

GPU Shipments Up 7.2% from Last Quarter

by Bob Raikes

Jon Peddie Research has published its results for Q2’17 GPU shipments world-wide. Up to now, the GPU and PC market had been showing a return to what has been normal seasonality. The typical pattern …

Tags:GPUs| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Cryptocurrency Mining Blamed for Graphics Card Stock Issues

by Andrew Fenn

PC hardware supplier MindFactory has attributed a shortage of graphics cards in Germany to the growing trend of cryptocurrency mining, according to a report on tech news site, Tom’s Hardware. It has been widely …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 26