AMD’s GPU roadmap has been substantially aligned to meet semi-custom needs ever since it won the PS4 and Xbox One contracts. In a piece earlier today, we actually and how they may have impacted AMD’s overall roadmap in the past five years. But the links may actually go deeper than we thought. There are reports that Navi isn’t just aligned to Sony’s roadmap — it’s a chip that AMD built explicitly for Sony, even when doing so pulled resources away from Vega. This information, by Jason Evangelho at Forbes, would explain a few things. When AMD first talked about Vega at its Sonoma event in 2015, it stated Polaris would be a major GCN revamp, while Vega would be, if not a complete break with GCN, a full-scale, ground-up rearchitecting.
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The Boring Company has thus far been a vehicle for Elon Musk to sell merchandise like hats and , but it is supposed to be a transit company. It’s going to prove that it can do more than sell flamethrowers thanks to a new project in Chicago. The Chicago Infrastructure Trust has chosen The Boring Company to build the Chicago Express Loop service, which will carry passengers to and from O’Hare Airport. The company’s vision for that involves . Musk’s firm calls the transit vehicles “Skates,” which will run on an underground track system. Each Skate will have room for between eight and 16 passengers.
With the rush to incorporate AI into nearly everything, there is an insatiable demand for the computing and electrical power needed. As a result, the power-hungry GPUs that are used today are starting to give way to lower-cost, lower-power, custom devices when it comes to running production-scale trained neural networks. However, the time-consuming training process has been slower to yield to new architectures. IBM Research, which brought TrueNorth — one of the first custom inferencing chips — to life, is aiming to do it again with a hybrid analog-digital chip architecture that can also train fully-connected deep neural networks.
Fortnite is one of the biggest in the world right now, so Switch owners were understandably excited to download it when it . However, some players ran into an ugly roadblock. It turns out that Fortnite accounts associated with the PS4 . This isn’t the fault of Nintendo or Epic (the Fortnite developer). You can blame Sony’s increasingly aggravating opposition to cross-platform play. The Switch version of Fortnite has all the same features as the version on PC and other consoles. However, the visuals have been stripped down to run smoother on the Switch’s Tegra X1 chip. It looks more like the iPhone version of the game than the one you can play on consoles and computers.
When the call went out for volunteers to participate in a study on a new technology that could eventually improve on and replace progressive lenses, I was happy to sign up. Like every human over 50 years old, my eyes don’t accommodate as well as they used to. As we age, our eyes’ lenses stiffen, and we can either see near or far, but can’t adjust between them without the help of reading glasses, progressive lenses, or surgical monovision, depending on whether you are farsighted (Hyperopia) or nearsighted (Myopia). Even if you have 20/20 vision at a distance, as you age you’ll need reading glasses to focus on a nearby book.
For better or worse, Tesla has been getting when it comes to self-driving electric cars. A new self-driving car startup in California called Byton has just unveiled its second prototype vehicle. The so-called K-Byte features a large lithium-ion battery like the Teslas, but it has that could potentially surpass everything else on the road. The last Byton concept vehicles appeared at CES early this year. The original Byton concept (retroactively branded as the M-Byte) was a crossover. The new K-Byte is a slightly smaller sedan. That’s why it’s the K-Byte instead of the M-Byte, get it? The frame of the vehicles is the same, but the K-Byte represents a more refined picture of what Byton wants to make.
When EA unveiled the trailer for Battlefield V, a group of whining, grasping, misogynistic children on the internet lost their collective minds. Brave champions of WW2 accuracy mounted tanks, planes, and jeeps to blast Dice for daring to treat its fantasy shooter that happens to clothe itself in the faintest trappings of historical accuracy as if it was, in fact, a fantasy shooter. EA’s response to this onslaught is to invite these sad trolls to do exactly what they’re forever threatening to do: Namely, spend their dollars elsewhere. In an interview with Gamasutra, EA chief creative officer Patrick Soderlund directly:
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