April 2018 - At NAB 2018 HP, Dell, AMD and others were showing off the latest in workstation technology for the content creation industry. This included new devices for entry and editing, as well as render and general correction workflows and ending in storage solutions. The introductions from HP, Dell, AMD, OWC, Puget Systems, Kingston…
August 2017 – The release of the new Vega GPUs from AMD has been followed by an update in the support software for both professional developers and end point users. The two products are the Radeon Crimson ReLive Software Edition 17.7.2 and the Radeon Pro Crimson ReLive Software 17.8. The lead feature on the Pro…
August 2017 – AMD released the entry level unit on their new Ryzen processor family – the Ryzen 3. The Ryzen family of processors is a new architectural design that is built around the AMD SenseMI technology which manages power, performance boost, extended operating frequency range, Neural Net Prediction on power performance optimization and a…
July 2017 – AMD’s Radeon Pro line has been a major player in the graphics GPU market for a very long time. GPU cards have been a staple of the content creation, oil & gas, CAD, financial and scientific computing markets. The need to creation of powerful graphics has moved beyond the workstation user market…
December 2016 – After an extended period of gradual change the past decade, AMD has released a new computing architecture for the desktop computing environment for the personal computer marketplace. The architecture change to the new “Zen” design modernizes the single tasked office automation (wordprocessing, spreadsheets, etc) optimized structure to a multitask and media centric…
December 2016 – At the AMD Tech Summit, CEO Lisa Su introduced a major shift in the data center and computing marketplace. SVP and Chief Architect of the Radeon Tech Group Raja Koduri presented AMD response to these developments in the marketplace. The market has seen the initial trend of the standalone PC moving to…
November 2016 – Over the start of the holiday season, we had a chance to test out the new AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 Professional Workstation Graphic Card. The WX7100 represent the marketplaces first single slot 4 x 4K display capable graphics card with 8GB of on board GDDR5 memory. The graphics card uses the WX7100…
October 2015 – Continuing their push into the combined CPU/GPU designs, AMD released the R Series SOC for embedded applications. The new chip, called the “merlin falcon”, is smaller than previous designs in this family by over 30%. The reduction in area and package size comes from the use of the Excavator architecture for the…
October 2015 – At the Linley Processor Conference, the HAS released an update on the progress of the consortiums efforts. The consortium is making progress since their 1.0 specification release earlier this year. The CPU & GPU computing paradigm supports a memory coherency model and a memory partitioning by tasks. For realization of the specification,…
February 2015 – The cost of developing new process nodes and validating the libraries is getting prohibitive. As a result, the processor groups are slowing down Moore’s law by holding on the same node as last year and now moving to design and layout optimization to improve power and performance characteristics. This theme was repeated…