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GPUs Fall Below 10-Year Average

by Tom Allen

As the PC market fell in Q2’16, largely due to data centers and servers, shares in the GPU market shifted. AMD rose while Intel and Nvidia fell. PC shipments were up 1.06% QoQ but …

AMD and Nvidia Compete in Video Stitching at Siggraph

by Tom Allen

Computer graphics event Siggraph is ongoing at the time of writing, and several announcements have been made by both AMD and Nvidia. Unlike previous years, virtual reality was a focus of the 2016 show. …

AMD Acquires Hialgo

by Tom Allen

AMD has acquired California-based HiAlgo, a software company that develops PC gaming technologies. For example, HiAlgo has built software to help raise GPU efficiency, and to improve the gaming experience without overclocking. AMD says …

Tags:AMD| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 29

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 29

by Milos Pavlovic

Andromium‘s Superbook (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 19) – the laptop ‘shell’ powered by a smartphone – is now live on Kickstarter. Prices start at $85. It was funded within 10 minutes, …

AV Stumpfl Introduces GPU Based Video Decoding Algorithm for Media Server Line Up

by Isaac Oburu

The ambitious engineering team at AV Stumpfl® has taken their upcoming Wings Vioso RX software to the next level, adding a video decoding algorithm which uses specialized GPU instructions instead of regular CPU processes. …

Tags:GPUs| Media Servers

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 28

by Tom Allen

7thSense has released an entry-level media server, as an affordable way to introduce uncompressed media playback into a workflow for fixed installations. The Nano-1-SDI server features a web-based UI for simple configurations and a …

AMD Dramatically Lowers VR Cost

by Tom Allen

AMD is planning a series of new Radeon RX Series graphics cards, based on its Polaris architecture, designed for VR-ready PCs. The RX 480 series is designed to be financially accessible, starting at $200. …

ARM Designs for AR and VR

by Tom Allen

ARM has announced a new CPU and GPU for flagship mobile devices, which will be available in 2017. The Cortex-A73 CPU and Mali-G71 GPU are designed to support VR and AR applications. The new …

Jon Peddie on Virtual Reality in the GTX1080

by Tom Allen

Our friend Jon Peddie has written an interesting report in his latest TechWatch newsletter, highlighting some aspects of Nvidia’s GTX1080 (Nvidia Reaches 240Hz With 16nm) which we only briefly touched upon. First, you need …

JPR: Notebooks Dragging Down PC Market

by Tom Allen

Both corporations and users continue to lengthen their PC refresh rates, prolonging the PC market slide, says Jon Peddie Research (JPR). Once again, the gaming market (which uses high-end GPUs) was the stand-out segment …

Nvidia Reaches 240Hz With 16nm

by Tom Allen

Gaming continues to be a demand driver for HDR and high frame rates on PCs, and Nvidia aims to fulfil that need with its new GTX1080 and GTX1070 graphics cards. These devices can support …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 23 - Issue 18

Nvidia Bringing Ray Tracing to VR

by Bob Raikes

In his keynote at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia said that his company has developed a version of its iRay ray-tracing software that can be used to create content …