CES surprise sees CEO Bob Swan out and former CTO Gelsinger back in. Under some pressure from activist investment firm Third Point, Intel has announced plans to bring in Pat Gelsinger to be the company’s CEO. Gelsinger, who had successfully run EMC and then VMware, was previously at Intel as the SVP and GM of the Digital Enterprise Group. The irony that absolutely nobody … [Read more...] about Intel brings Pat Gelsinger back, and this time as CEO
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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
SPECapc for Solidworks 2020 benchmark adds new GUI; CPU and 2D drafting tests
By Bob Cramblitt SPEC’s Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released new performance evaluation software for workstations running Solidworks 2020. Major new features in the new SPECapc for Solidworks 2020 benchmark include: Testing under the new Solidworks 2020 enhanced graphics interface. Two new CPU tests for file conversion … [Read more...] about SPECapc for Solidworks 2020 benchmark adds new GUI; CPU and 2D drafting tests
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
A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance
by Bob Cramblitt Views of SPEC/GWPG members. Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with … [Read more...] about A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance
Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Knowing how you stand up to the competition is critical. Last December, we told you about ray tracing startup, Nebula, in Montreal and the founder, Yann Clotioloman Yéo. The company has developed a physically based, unbiased stand-alone renderer with realtime DirectX 12 preview written in C++. It runs on Windows 10 (64-bit) and requires SSE4 to run. The program uses AMD … [Read more...] about Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Benchmarking ray tracing
Ray tracing, as everyone knows, is a simple algorithm that can totally consume a processor. But how much a given processor is consumed is an unanswerable question because it depends upon the scene and of course the processor itself. So, approximations have to be made, and parameters fixed to get a consistent comparison. Then it's left to the buyer to extrapolate the results to … [Read more...] about Benchmarking ray tracing
AMD’s Next Horizon dawns with 7-nm Epyc Rome Zen 2 processor
Alex Herrera takes stock of AMD’s latest hardware introductions and notes the company has an edge on Intel and a serious play against Nvidia in the data center. If Las Vegas placed odds on what news AMD would break in San Francisco at its Next Horizon, the heavy favorites would have been clear: the official announcements of both Zen 2 processor technology and the first 7-nm … [Read more...] about AMD’s Next Horizon dawns with 7-nm Epyc Rome Zen 2 processor
Keyshot update enhances 3D CAD support
Luxion still betting on CPU processing power in a field becoming dominated by GPU rendering. The most recent revision of Luxion KeyShot for 3D rendering and animation focuses on expanded support for import libraries required by the users of 3D design tools for product development. Extended support in this release updates KeyShot’s support for current releases of Autodesk … [Read more...] about Keyshot update enhances 3D CAD support
Live linking to CAD tops list of KeyShot new features
Luxion also adds new lighting placement flexibility, Pantone libraries, and more. A tighter connection to several 3D CAD products tops the list of new features in KeyShot 4, just released by Luxion. The CPU-based 3D rendering and animation software continues to do well in the small but highly competitive product development visualization space. New Live Linking … [Read more...] about Live linking to CAD tops list of KeyShot new features