$4.7 billion in sales, $1.3 billion profit—up 115% from last quarter. Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended 31 October, 2020, of $4.7 billion, up 57% from $3 billion a year earlier, and up 22% from $3.9 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $2.8 billion, up 34% from last quarter and up 25% from last … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q3 FY21 results
AMD Q3 2020 results
Revenue for the quarter was up 55.6% from last year to $2.8 billion, GAAP profit was $390 million, 225% from last year. AMD’s third-quarter was up from Q2 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $2.8 billion, up 57% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was 148% quarter-over-quarter and up 225% year-to-year. “Our … [Read more...] about AMD Q3 2020 results
Intel reports Q3’2020 results with good news and bad news
The DG1 is shipping, Q3 revenue is down 4.7% YoY to $18.3 billion dollars—and the company is positioning itself for Q4 and a new year. For Q3 2020, Intel reported a decline in sales (revenue), profits, and margins even as even though more people bought PCs, as consumers and companies adjusted to work at home. Likewise, organizations and governments pulled back on data center … [Read more...] about Intel reports Q3’2020 results with good news and bad news
Corsair One: workstation-class PC
Corsair’s flagship PC is silent and fast. Corsair recently introduced a new gaming PC that will challenge some workstations. Corsair acquired high-performance PC build Origin in July 2019. The company brought out The Corsair One i200. It is striking looking and it is an incredible performer, thanks to a liquid-cooled 3.7 GHz Core i9-10900K processor and a liquid-cooled … [Read more...] about Corsair One: workstation-class PC
A look at Epic’s Unreal Engine 5
Level of detail is simply astounding—realtime global illumination and more. (Source: Epic) I have been trying to write about Epic’s new Unreal Engine 5 since they announced it in May. Every time I do, I am awestruck by the visuals, and mind-boggled trying to figure out how they did it. It is making a bazillion zillion quadrillion polygons fit in a 4k screen. The company … [Read more...] about A look at Epic’s Unreal Engine 5
Review: EVGA’s CLC CPU cooler
For a brief and fleeting moment, I was cool in high school, my 15 minutes of fame. As it turned out while poking around a garage’s trash can one night, I found an old Rochester 2-barrel Chevy carburetor. I took it home, cleaned it up, and took it apart. And then I cleaned all the parts and put it back together. In the process, I figured out how it worked, and I could see why … [Read more...] about Review: EVGA’s CLC CPU cooler
The levels of ray tracing
There are six, says Imagination Technologies. With ray tracing becoming increasingly important for a wide range of graphics applications, Imagination Technologies has developed a Ray Tracing Level System to give developers and OEMs an insight into the capability of solutions for ray tracing acceleration available now and in the future. The System identifies increasingly … [Read more...] about The levels of ray tracing
What does a pandemic have to do with GPUs?
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