February 2018 – At the annual International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2018, held in San Francisco, one of the plenary talks was by UC Berkeley professor and Google researcher – computer architecture icon – Dave Patterson. He presented a talk titled 50 Years of Computer Architecture: from Mainframe CPUs to DNN TPUs and Open RISC-V. His…
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…
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…
M&E Tech’s coverage of the 2017 Nvidia GTC show included interviews and product announcements that were aired on Comcast, AT&T & Ustream by it video production partner Roadway.Media in June 2017 on Bright Blue Innovation. Bright Blue Innovation host Lidia Paulinska visits the 2017 Nvidia Graphics Technology Conference also known at Nvidia GTC 2017. The…
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…
June 2016 – This year’s E3 show was heavily focused on games that utilize the new hardware platforms – consoles, PCs, and VR systems. As a long time anchor for the gaming industry and celebrating their 20th anniversary was Alienware which is a division of Dell. This year featured a revamping of their desktop line…
April 5, 2016, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—David Luan from Dextro talked about developments to enable human users to address the issues of search, classification, and analysis of video. The main problem is that current classification techniques try to use keywords, metadata, and iconic images from static images for video. The biggest problem with…
April 5, 2016, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Azzam Edwin from Stereolabs talked about the requirements for mixing large-scale real and VR imagery. The ever-increasing capabilities of GPUs enables many possible new visual functions.. The recent release of consumer-level VR viewers is fine for small scale, private viewing, but suffers from the need for external…
April 5, 2016, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Rora Van den Bulcke and Thomas Soetens from Immersive Design Studios talked about the use of GPUs and projection systems as media sources for very large are displays in public venues. The latest capabilities enable public VR. VR is interesting for artists, but should not require a…