GPUs
Offering some rare insight into the scale of HBM memory sales – and on its growth in the face of unprecedented demand from AI accelerator vendors – the company recently disclosed that it expects HBM sales to make up "a double-digit percentage of its DRAM chip sales" this year. Which if it comes to pass, would represent a significant jump in sales for the high-bandwidth, high-priced memory. As first reported by Reuters, SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung has commented that he expects HBM sales will constitute a double-digit percentage of its DRAM chip sales in 2024. This prediction corroborate with estimates from TrendForce, who believe that, industry-wide, HBM will account for 20.1% of DRAM revenue in 2024, more than doubling HBM's 8.4% revenue share in...
PowerColor Extends Product Warranty by Three Months Due to Coronavirus
PowerColor this week has announced that it is extending its warranties to existing customers by three months. The second manufacturer this month to extend its existing prodcut warranties, PowerColor...
67 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/27/2020NVIDIA Intros DLSS 2.0: Ditches Per-Game Training, Adds Motion Vectors for Better Quality
While NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference has been extensively dialed back and the bulk of NVIDIA’s announcements tabled for another day, as it turns out, the company still has...
31 by Ryan Smith on 3/23/2020Quick Note: AMD Shows Off Raytracing on RDNA2
With today’s announcement from Microsoft of DirectX 12 Ultimate, both NVIDIA and AMD are also chiming in to reiterate their support for the new feature set, and to note...
100 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2020Microsoft Unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate: The GPU Feature Set For the Next Generation of Games
While the 2020 Game Developers Conference has been postponed, that thankfully doesn’t mean everything gaming-related for this spring has been postponed as well. As the saying goes, the show...
53 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2020Microsoft Now Offers Azure NVv4 Virtual Machines with AMD EPYC & Radeon Instinct
AMD’s 2nd Generation EPYC processors have gained a strong recognition among cloud computing companies, and today numerous instances are powered by AMD’s latest server CPUs. By contrast, however, the...
19 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2020Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
Update (03/16/2020): What a difference a week makes. Citing the latest developments in the now coronavirus pandemic, NVIDIA has altered its GTC plans once again. The company is now...
26 by Ryan Smith on 3/16/2020AMD Officially Launches the Radeon RX 590 GME For China: RX 580 Rides Again
While AMD’s Polaris family of GPUs have surprised us in a few different ways, perhaps the most impressive aspect has been their sheer longevity. First introduced in 2016 as...
15 by Ryan Smith on 3/11/2020NVIDIA Acquires SwiftStack, an Object Storage Company
NVIDIA and SwiftStack have signed an agreement under which the former will aqcuire the latter. SwiftStack develops object storage software that is used for AI, HPC, and accelerated computing...
5 by Anton Shilov on 3/10/2020AMD Financial Analyst Day 2020 Round-Up: Laying A Path For Bigger & Better Things
AMD’s first Financial Analyst Day since 2017 has just wrapped up. In the last three years AMD has undergone a dramatic change, launching its Zen CPU architecture, and greatly...
51 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020AMD Clarifies Comments on 7nm / 7nm+ for Future Products: EUV Not Specified
As part of AMD’s Financial Analyst Day 2020, the company gave the latest updates for its CPU and GPU roadmap. A lot of this we have seen before, with...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020AMD's RDNA 2 Gets A Codename: “Navi 2X” Comes This Year With 50% Improved Perf-Per-Watt
While AMD’s Financial Analyst Day is first and foremost focused on the company’s financial performance – it’s right there in the title – this doesn’t stop the company from...
46 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020AMD's 2020-2022 Client GPU Roadmap: RDNA 3 & Navi 3X On the Horizon With More Perf & Efficiency
As has become something of a tradition for AMD, this year’s Financial Analyst Day included a high level update to the company’s GPU roadmap. The last roadmap we saw...
5 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020AMD Unveils CDNA GPU Architecture: A Dedicated GPU Architecture for Data Centers
Over the last decade, the industry has seen a boom in demand for GPUs for the data center. Driven in large part by rapid progress in neural networking, deep...
26 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020AMD Moves From Infinity Fabric to Infinity Architecture: Connecting Everything to Everything
Another element to AMD’s Financial Analyst Day 2020 was the disclosure of how the company intends to evolve its interconnect strategy with its Infinity Fabric (IF). The plan over...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020AMD Discusses ‘X3D’ Die Stacking and Packaging for Future Products: Hybrid 2.5D and 3D
One of AMD’s key messages at its Financial Analyst Day 2020 is that the company wants to remain on the leading edge when it comes to process node technology...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020El Capitan Supercomputer Detailed: AMD CPUs & GPUs To Drive 2 Exaflops of Compute
Back in August, the United States Department of Energy and Cray announced plans for a third United States exascale supercomputer, El Capitan. Scheduled to be installed in Lawrence Livermore...
54 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2020Intel CFO: Our 10nm Will Be Less Profitable than 22nm [Morgan Stanley Transcription]
This week at Morgan Stanley’s Analyst Conference, Intel’s CFO, George Davis, sat down to discuss the future of where Intel’s profitability lies. No stranger to the odd comments relating...
92 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/4/2020NVIDIA's 2020 GTC Becomes Latest Coronavirus Event Casualty: Now Digital-Only
Following the ongoing saga of technology event cancelations into March and beyond, NVIDIA has now become the latest event host to cancel or substantially alter a planned event due...
16 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2020AMD Posts Radeon Software 20.2.2 Drivers: Focusing on Bug Fixes and Stability
Finding themselves under some fire as of late for driver quality, AMD has released their second Radeon driver update for February. Focused on improving driver stability, today's release, 20.2.2...
29 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2020NVIDIA Quietly Reveals GeForce MX350 & MX330: 2020's Entry-Level Laptop GeForce
For the better part of the past 5 years, NVIDIA has held an extremely solid grip on the market for discrete laptop GPUs. From the top to bottom, unless...
16 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2020