The story behind the numbers. By now you’ve heard from anyone who has a keyboard, how the pandemic is bolstering the gaming market. That’s true, it is. In JPR’s quarterly market report, we saw shipments of GPUs go up to an extent, which in any other time, would be surprising. Everything is different now. Games need good, really good if not great, GPUs. Most gamers, who … [Read more...] about What does a pandemic have to do with GPUs?
Nvidia’s Q2 FY21 results
$3.8 billion in sales, $622 million profit—down 32% from last quarter. Nvidia reported revenue, for the second quarter ended July 26, 2020, of $3.87 billion, up 50% from $2.58 billion a year earlier, and up 26% from $3.08 billion in the previous quarter. Nvidia closed its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. on April 27, 2020. The company’s graphics business revenue … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q2 FY21 results
XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos
Doing what they did for mobile phones, Khronos has stabilized XR. The headline is: Khronos announced multiple conformant implementations of OpenXR are shipping from Oculus and Microsoft. That happened because of the newly opened OpenXR 1.0 Adopters Program and open-source conformance tests, which Khronos announced was coming after launching the OpenXR 1.0 specification last … [Read more...] about XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos
AMD Q2 2020 results
Revenue for the quarter was up 26% from last year to $1.93 billion, GAAP profit was $157 million, 349% from last year. AMD’s first quarter was up from Q1 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both … [Read more...] about AMD Q2 2020 results
Intel Q2’2020 results
Q2 revenue up 19.4% YoY to $19.7 billion dollars. The new normal is not normal, and may not be again for a long time. Q2 which has traditionally been a down quarter was up for Intel year-to-year, and flat quarter-to-quarter. But Q3 is being guided down, and Intel still is dealing with manufacturing issues—the new normal. By midday the day after Intel’s report, AMD … [Read more...] about Intel Q2’2020 results
Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence
New audio data coding standards body proposed Leonardo Chiariglione, an Italian engineer best known as the co-founder and former chairman of MPEG, is proposing to establish a new organization called Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI). The organization will have a twofold mission: to develop standards for compression of video, … [Read more...] about Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence
Apple parts ways with Intel for Arm
The company builds all of its own parts and software. Rumors of Apple developing its own CPU started 12 years ago when it acquired a small CPU company called P.A. Semi. Those rumors waned and waxed depending on what Apple did such as hiring someone or acquiring some company. When the company ended its relationship with Imagination Technologies, the supplier of the GPU … [Read more...] about Apple parts ways with Intel for Arm
31-inch volumetric holographic display
Looking Glass Factory releases an amazing viewer. Looking Glass Factory has expanded its product line and is now offering a 31-inch, 8K (33.2 million pixels) display, a 45-view horizontal-only. This is the third and latest development in the company’s 3D volumetric display product line, and something the industry has wanted since they saw the first 8.9-inch … [Read more...] about 31-inch volumetric holographic display
Omniverse—work anywhere, in any program, with your colleagues
Expanding Pixar's USD across industries. It hasn’t been too many years since the siloed effects of specialists in the graphics production pipeline drove up a studio or company’s costs, and delayed projects because they used incompatible programs. At GDC 2020, Nvidia introduced Omniverse, its open collaboration platform to simplify workflows for realtime graphics. Nvidia … [Read more...] about Omniverse—work anywhere, in any program, with your colleagues
Global GPU market’s growth blunted by COVID-19 in Q1’20
JPR's Market Watch report says PC GPU market shipments decreased -5.3% sequentially from last quarter but increased 14.9% year-to-year. As part of its ongoing research on the PC graphics market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has completed its Market Watch report for the first quarter of 2020. Before 2020, the PC market was showing signs of stabilizing into a new normal. JPR’s … [Read more...] about Global GPU market’s growth blunted by COVID-19 in Q1’20