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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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During the technical session on designing the future of supercomputing, presenters from TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) went into detail on creating the Stampede supercomputer.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Three weeks ago Intel launched their Xeon Phi coprocessor card with much fanfare. We took the time to analyze some technical details about the chip that cast some doubt on Intel's claim of x86 compatibility.
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HARDWARE, SOFTWARE
ANALYSIS
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At the ISC 2011 Conference in Hamburg, Germany - Intel unveiled additional details about their Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. This technology developed out of the Larrabee GPU project.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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nVidia's Co-founder and CEO recently hosted a dinner for selected press where he discussed the company past, present and future, revealing interesting bits about the future architectures as well.
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GRAPHICS, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Just like AMD was pressured with expiring x86 license and had to settle with Intel for 1.2B, Intel was pressured with the expiring license and had to settle with nVidia for $1.5 billion.
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GRAPHICS, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Last week, ARM held their TechCon 2010 technology conference. They introduced a new Mali-T604 GPU IP and accompanying CoreLink 400 IP interconnect which provides high-speed cache sharing.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Lack of competition hurts the market - AMD's continuous delays of their next-gen architecture combined with Intel's ill-fated Larrabee effort resulted in slowdown of Intel's Tick-Tock cadence, starting with 32nm Westmere.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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The latest installment of Intel's legal sagas consists of rumors that the FTC is going to prosecute them very soon. We asked Intel for a comment about the possibility of them being investigated by the FTC.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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In our coverage of Larrabee, one question persisted: is it worth for Intel to invest billions of dollars on a market that cannot be dominated?
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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Intel showed reporters a 48-core processor nicknamed the SCC [Single-Chip Cloud Computer] that consumes about the same power as today's desktop processors.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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SC09 Performance target for Intel's Larrabee was very simple one: "1TFLOPS @ 16 P55C-based cores, 2.0 GHz clock, 150W TDP and 1TFLOPS. At SC09, Intel finally made that target.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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AMD and nVidia might be getting a company sooner than they expected, if Intel's massive investment pays off.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
RUMORS
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Back in 2008, Intel was shopping around for AIB vendors for its Larrabee project. Things didn't went as planned and Intel went into silent mode. They're talking again...
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GRAPHICS, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Since we don't have access to Intel's own Circuits magazine, we can only wonder what the mighty Chipzilla is commenting, but nVidia's take on competition is rather funny...
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
INTERVIEWS
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A lot is said about Intel's products, but not a lot is said about the tens of thousands of people who work inside the company even for their entire career.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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When Intel announced that the company was working on Larrabee, almost everybody thought that Intel would destroy ATI/nVidia. Three years and several billion dollars later, the situation looks a little bit different.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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There are a lot of rumors about the new cGPU chip from nVidia: we can exclusively reveal to you what nVidia cooked up and what is the market impact.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
INTERVIEWS
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LucidLogix is working on solving the scaling issue through computational approach, rather than conventional frame-by-frame.
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GRAPHICS, BUSINESS
NEWS, RUMORS
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We learned that the Monday's departure of Patrick Gelsinger wasn't as smooth as the PR tried to pitch it. It looks like Pat got the boot because of "over-promised, under-delivered" Larrabee.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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nVidia reports $777 Million revenue, almost 17% more than Q1'09, and finally reported a profit of $38M after taxes. Big winners: desktop GeForce cards, ION chipset.
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