Lisa Su: Data Center GPU Sales To Hit $4B, Teases Future Chips
With AMD looking to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing space, Su said expanded customer engagements with the company’s Instinct MI300 accelerator chips prompted it to upgrade its 2024 data center GPU revenue forecast...
Intel has a wafer-level assembly problem, and it's hurting Core Ultra sales
Customers are hot for Intel's Core Ultra products
THE BIG PICTURE: Customers are clamoring for Intel's Core Ultra CPUs, but the chipmaker is facing a bottleneck in wafer-level assembly at the back end. It's a...
The official MSRP for the 7700 XT is likely a thing of the past, considering that Radeon RX 6000 availability is dwindling by the day, and both AMD and NVIDIA don’t have much in the pipeline until the next-gen drops.
Currently, there are four models priced either at or below $399.99, which is...
Elon Musk plans to charge new X users to enable posting
Musk later added that new accounts would be able to post after three months of creation without paying a fee.
As is the case with a lot of announcements related to the social platform, there are no details at the moment about when this...
Nvidia is notably missing from this list of big clients.
The Taiwan Economic Daily is reporting on TSMC's surging 3nm business
At projected 20% of revenues, it would be just behind 5nm business.
As Wccftech notes, TSMC's biggest customers are all prepping next-gen hardware using TSMC 3nm in...
consumers should be aware of a new problem and also look forward to how AMD wants to tackle this issue with the Zen5 architecture, expected to support AVX512 instructions as well. Intel CPUs should not be affected, as the company has abandoned AVX512 support with Alder Lake.
While GPU mining...
Tbh, I couldn't make head or tails out of this statement
Hope someone else on the forum here can clarify
It appears that AMD may be exploring using AI-algorithms for their upscaling as well, as hinted by Mark Papermaster (AMD CTO):
As per Papermaster’s remarks, there’s a possibility that the...
Hardwareluxx report in detail about the strategy for the new " Intel Foundry " - Intel's manufacturing branch, which is set to grow big and also be spun off as a separate company this year. What is particularly interesting here are those statements that suggest real semiconductor independence...
Nvidia identified Huawei as a top competitor in several categories, including artificial intelligence chips, for the first time in a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission late Wednesday.
The Santa Clara, California-based company said that China's Huawei competes in supplying chips...
Su's speech is set for the morning of June 3, 2024, shortly before the formal start of the show.
This upcoming keynote will be Lisa Su's third Computex keynote after her speeches at Computex 2019 and Computex 2022. In both cases she also announced upcoming AMD products.
In 2019, she showcased...
According to an interview with GamingOnLinux in 2018, Rebohle “always had an interest in graphics programming,” but mostly tinkered with hobby projects that, in Rebohle’s own words, “never really evolved into anything useful.” DXVK started due to some frustrations with the reality of gaming on...
5% faster than the 7800XT & 10% costlier
4070 ti/4070 super raster performance at 4070 price
the 4830/5830 of this era
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2024/02/18/amd-radeon-rx-7900-gre-coming-to-us-with-big-price-cut/?sh=3f04d80b3b98
The GPD Win Max 2 gaming handheld sacrifices efficiency in the name of performance in a recent in-depth test, achieving marginally less battery life than its predecessor but performing better in games and synthetic benchmarks, largely due to improved high-speed RAM compatibility...
nVidia made the big leap with its 2023 annual results and dethroned Intel as the clear leader of the three big chip developers in the PC sector for ages. Of course, this is partly based on a period of weakness on Intel's part, as nVidia is currently not (yet) close to Intel's sales records from...
Wasn't he the same one who declared that AMD is firmly in their rear view mirror 🤔
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger: I hope to build chips for Lisa Su and AMD
there are Intel products and Intel foundry, There's a clean line between those, and as I said on the last earnings call, we'll have a setup...
China’s special graphics card RX 6750 GRE is too cheap! AMD takes action: fines, suspension of goods
Kuai Technology reported on February 21 that AMD released the RX 6750 GRE 10/12GB graphics card specifically for the Chinese mainland market in October last year. The starting prices were 2,219...
Unfortunately paywalled
This person is/was very big on AI but now predicts a drop in chip prices
https://x.com/theinformation/status/1757577912557903910?s=20
Instead of a series S next, we could have a handheld gaming device (like Switch/Deck)!!!
https://x.com/IdleSloth84_/status/1754828376697721318?s=20
It was rumoured that the hardware behind steam deck was originally meant to be a handheld for Microsoft but MS developed cold feet & AMD had to go...
As per the UDN report, NVIDIA will add Intel as a provider of advanced packaging services to help ease the constraints. Intel is expected to start supplying NVIDIA with a monthly advanced packaging capacity of about 5,000 units in Q2 at the earliest.
While TSMC will remain NVIDIA's primary...
On January 17th, Mat Piscatella — Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) and Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games — claimed that:
Subscription growth has flattened, and sub services on console and PC platforms accounts for only 10% of total video game content...
Is this the budget handheld you’ve been waiting for?
The big difference between this handheld, and every other one that Ayaneo has released before is the inclusion of SteamOS. This means that you won’t have to mess around in Windows to get things running, or have to configure everything with...
AMD budget GPU listed with twice the memory of RX 7600 and RTX 4060 — RX 7600 XT with 16GB GDDR6
AMD's rumored RX 7600 XT has been spotted on the Eurasian Economic Union customs database (or EEC for short) by hardware leaker Harukaze5719.
RX 7600 XT could carry 16GB of VRAM like the RTX 4060 Ti...
What is in a name 🤔
AMD might be switching from fish codenames to crystalline rocks, as a shipping label, disclosed by popular hardware leaker Harukaze5179, reveals. The shipping manifesto suggests that AMD uses a new "Cuarzo" codename for its existing Navi 3X GPUs. This label was reportedly...
Pat Gelsinger: Nvidia Got 'Extraordinarily Lucky' in Dominating the AI Market
If it hadn't been for that meddling company, Intel would be rich by now!
Things would be completely different if only Intel hadn't cancelled the Larrabee GPU...
Phoronix has done intial benchmarking of CPU only performance of Intel's new mobile APU & compared vs AMD's existing zen 4 APU
Big win for Intel: day-0 & day-1 availability unlike AMD that takes weeks or months to deliver
Intel also won PHP scripting
Win for AMD: Almost everything else
Those...
Anyone without an RTX 4090 or Radeon 7900 XTX should not even attempt it.
According to a Redditor with an RTX 4090, this mode consumes 18.5GB of VRAM at 4K and runs at 30fps using DLAA and no frame generation. In the same thread, another RTX 4090 owner said they're getting about 50fps at 4K...
h/t RedGamingTech
It is here: multi-GCD chip. The holy grail of GPU
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2023/0376318.html#google_vignette
DISTRIBUTED GEOMETRY
In one implementation, chiplets (labelled) 320 A to 320 N are coupled to (a single) index buffer (labelled) 360 stored in memory...
What the future holds for RDNA
If we take stock of what AMD has achieved with RDNA in four years, and appraise the overall success of the changes, the end result will fall somewhere between Bulldozer and Zen. The former was initially a near-catastrophic disaster for the company but redeemed...
The c-cores are normally used for server products, but AMD has recently started using them in low power consumer products such as phoenix 2 (2 zen4 + 4 zen4c)
It is speculated that, Sonoma Valley, a successor to AMD Mendocino (a very low power APU) could utilize zen 5c that is fabricated on...
How do they plan to make money 🤔
Tim Sweeney’s Epic Games Store Is Still Losing Money After Five Years
new testimony has revealed that the Epic Games Store is still not profitable five years after its original launch in 2018.
That’s straight from Epic Games Store head Steve Allison on the...
A win for FSR in mobile/handheld gaming even as the DLSS threat in this space heats up.
https://wccftech.com/amd-fsr-technology-reportedly-coming-to-next-gen-samsung-qualcomm-smartphones/
The details come from @Tech_Reve who states that AMD, Samsung & Qualcomm have decided to jointly work on...
“If you look at the ecosystem for the GPU, the toolchain is controlled by NVIDIA,” says Fan. “Other competitors, including AMD, have tried to break the monopoly but failed. It’s almost impossible to be compatible with a continuously updated NVIDIA ecosystem by extending RISC-V’s standard...
AMD announced today that it has agreed to acquire open-source AI software company Nod.ai to improve its open source AI capabilities. Nod.ai, founded in 2013, has developed a software ecosystem of developer tools, libraries, and models that speed the deployment of AI solutions for AMD's silicon...
Microsoft to Debut AI Chip Next Month That Could Cut Nvidia GPU Costs
Microsoft next month plans to unveil the company’s first chip designed for artificial intelligence at its annual developers’ conference, according to a person with direct knowledge. The move, a culmination of years of work...
The PyTorch Drawbridge
In the HPC sector, CUDA-enabled applications rule the GPU-accelerated world. Porting codes can often realize a speed-up of 5-6x when using a GPU and CUDA. (Note: Not all codes can achieve this speed up, and some may not be able to use the GPU hardware.) However, in GenAI...
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NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB GPUs In 2024, Aiming Low-End Segment With Cut-Down Specs
NVIDIA is preparing a new GeForce RTX 3050 model which will reutilize the Ampere GPU architecture & get 6 GB of VRAM.
the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050...