October 2012 – At a San Jose press event, the team from Imagination Technologies in the UK held a briefing to overview their current product offerings and their historical product shipments reaching the 1B unit level. The company is on track to be included in products that are shipping at the rate of 1M units/day…
August 2012 – At SIGGRAPH 2012, Imagination Technology was showing a number of their graphics cores and compute cores that now spread from mobile devices through settop boxes and high resolution displays (through 4K). These products were shown in the context of their new API support for the Kronos OpenGL ES3.0 release. This API is…
August 2012 – At Siggraph 2012, ARM was showing the results of their new silicon for their second generation graphics cores in the Mali T600 family. While showing off existing products with their Mali400 series cores that are the dominant graphics in the Samsung SII and SIII mobile phones. The new cores the T624 and…
June 2012 – ARM recently presented an update on their MALI GPU platform, which is targeting the estimated 4B devices utilizing graphics engines by 2016. The GPU is addressing the visual computing market with has been tasked at improving the QOE (quality of experience) of the user, while consuming digital content. The prevalence of graphics…
May 2012 – Following along with the recent APU announcements for the processor line at AMD, they have released thier next generation of embedded processors called the R-Series. These APUs based on the 2nd generation Bulldozer architecture and the “piledriver” core. The GPU in the part has a new high speed direct memory interface along…
May 2012 – At the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) there were sessions focusing on the shifts in scientific computing and data analysis. Thess shifts are from the both the increased amounts of data genterated by sensors in a test environment and also from advances in multiprocessor and distributed computing which allows for the creation…
April 2012 – At NAB this year, Nvidia was showing a number of new GPU applications in their booth as well as their Maximus video solution. The Maximus GPU solution is the combination of a Quadro video card and a Tesla CPU computing card in a single system. This combination allows for very high performance…
April 2012 – Intel announced their first launch of their new Core series microprocessors under the IvyBridge architecture and 22nm FinFet process. The new processors – 13 models of the i5 and i7 series all of which are quad core devices. These are the first processors built on the 22nm Tri-Gate 3D transistors and represtnet…
March 2012, San Francisco, CA – At the Game Developer’s Conference in SF, a major focus was the rise in mobile gaming and mobile devices – both tablets and phones – as the fastest growing platform. These platforms are challenged by the power limitation imposed by the rechargeable battery for the device. The fixed and…