Raja Koduri announces OneAPI launch in Q4 19
28X improvement in deep leering
It is easy to forget about the software behind the hardware that everyone gets excited about, but without drivers, OS, and general API support, there would not be any platform.
Raja points out Nvidia and AMD datacenter weakness
GPU only strategy, or tiny software ecosystem
As a part of its software update and a One API strategy announcement Raja Koduri, the SVP of Intel architecture, graphics and software took time to mention two main competitors and used green for the company that has a GPU centric strategy and red for the company that has both a CPU and GPU.
Elon Musk says Lidar is fool’s gold
Lidars are unnecessary
Tesla has shared a vast amount of details about its FSD (Full Self Driving) dual SoC 14nm computer and said that the 12 ARM core chip has a modest GPU, a custom neural network compute part, while the SoC packs 250 million gates, 6 billion transistors at 260 mm2. More importantly, Elon addressed Tesla’s apparent desire to stay away from Lidars.
Dell XPS and Alienware notebooks to get upgraded in June
With new Intel 9th gen CPUs and Nvidia GTX 16-series GPUs
Dell has announced that its XPS 15 notebook will be getting an upgrade with new Intel 9th generation Core CPUs and Nvidia GTX 16-series mobiles GPUs in June.
Nvidia releases budget friendly mobile Turings
GeForce GTX 1650, GeForce GTX 1660, and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Nvidia, named after a Roman vengeance demon, has launched a new family of more budget-friendly Turing graphics chips for gaming laptops .
Taiwan and Nvidia team up on self driving cars
Drive Constellation and Drive Sim platforms to be used
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology has teamed up with the the GPU maker named after a Roman vengence daemon to speed up a government fostered autonomous driving programme.
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 comes on April 23rd
With a $149 starting price
It appears that Nvidia will launch its entry-level Geforce GTX 1650 on April 23rd, and it undercut a lot of entry-level cards with an MSRP of $149.
Nvidia releases three new RTX demos
Showing off ray tracing
Nvidia has officially released three new demos showing off those RTX ray tracing effects, Star Wars Reflections, Atomic Hearts, and Justice.
Nvidia latest driver enables DXR on more GPUs
Including Pascal and non-RTX Turing GPUs
Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 425.31 Game Ready driver which not only includes fixes and optimization for Ubisoft's Anno 1800 game, but also enables DXR support for Pascal, Titan V, and non-RTX Turing graphics cards, ranging from GTX 1060 6GB and up.
Couple of GTX 1650 graphics cards leaked
GTX 1650 doesn't need additional power
A couple of pictures of GTX 1650 graphics cards have leaked online showing a few more details about this entry-level graphics card.