During Microsoft’s initial Xbox One reveal and subsequent E3 demonstrations, it mentioned a capability that we haven’t heard much about since. According to the company, the Xbox One could theoretically be paired with offsite cloud rendering platforms at some point in the future to deliver a superior game experience to anything the console could handle on its own. Since then, Redmond has been silent ...
When Kaveri debuted 15 months ago, it offered a number of i mpressive under-the-hood improvements for heterogeneous compute workloads, a refreshed CPU core, and the best integrated graphics performance available on any platform. AMD has already announced that its Carrizo and Carrizo-L APUs will ship in volume beginning this quarter, but those are mobile-only parts. Today, the company ...
Now that AMD’s first analyst day in three years has wrapped and we’ve covered the major highlights, it’s time to turn to the elephant in the room: Can AMD break into new markets and compete more effectively in established ones, given that it’s often at a severe financial and technological disadvantage compared with its rivals? AMD claims that it can, but some of the evidence it offered yesterday was ...
One of the key components of AMD’s Analyst Day has been a comprehensive set of updates for its various product roadmaps. We’ve rounded up that information and rolled it into a single post. We’ve already covered AMD’s Zen, K12, and cancellation of Project Skybridge, so we won’t be discussing those projects directly. AMD’s desktop and mobile roadmaps Under ...
Huzzah, old chap! A report has surfaced showing that Sony has sold over two million PS4s in the UK. Moving that many units in less than 18 months in a nation of 64 million people is impressive. And considering that the UK was one of the few European bastions for the Xbox 360 last generation, this is a non-trivial indicator of which way the wind is blowing. In an interview with ...