New data on the GPU market has put formal numbers behind the visible impact of cryptocurrency mining on GPU prices. Unfortunately, we’ve also got fresh information suggesting the GPU price inflation cycle isn’t ending any time soon. Jon Peddie Research has on GPU sales in Q4 2017 showing that GPU shipments decreased 1.5 percent in Q4, in-line with normal seasonal expectations. Year-to-year GPU shipments decreased by 4.8 percent, driven mostly by declines in laptop shipments (desktop dropped 2 percent, but notebooks fell 7 percent). AMD’s market share rose by eight percent from Q3 to Q4 2017, suggesting an explanation for why Vega and Polaris chips are so over-priced (we noted this in our coverage earlier this week).
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More than a year after its console debut, Square Enix is finally getting around to releasing Final Fantasy XV on the PC. True 4K support will be available when the game launches on March 6, so this is our opportunity for a version without compromise, right? Right?! When XV was released in 2016, the Xbox One, PS4, and PS4 Pro versions all had their own unique . The eventual patch was a nice step up, but it still lacked the fit and finish that we hoped for. So, how is it going to hold up on the PC?
We’ve become used to shooting panoramas with convenient preset modes on our phones and cameras, but the unique perspective from a drone adds a vertical dimension that can create some impressive bird’s-eye views. However, this also complicates the process of capturing, processing, and sharing images. We’ll walk you through how to do it and the tools you’ll need. For illustration we’ll use , but the process is very similar for other prosumer drones. Capturing 360-degree Panoramas with your Drone For starters, you’ll want to optimize your drone’s camera settings. Use as low an ISO as you can that still allows you enough shutter speed to reduce or eliminate motion blur from the scene.
Market share isn’t the literal be-all, end-all of a healthy company, but it’s a critical component. After 2006, and particularly after 2011, AMD’s CPU market share took a brutal beating. In the wake of Ryzen’s debut almost exactly a year ago, enthusiasts and investors have both been curious about how much AMD’s new CPU core has changed its fortunes in the market and whether Ryzen had put the company on a new footing. That information has been slow in coming — not only does it take research firms time to dig through sales figures after a quarter is over, new products aren’t instantly adopted, even by people who eventually plan to adopt them.
When Google launched its (now-defunct) Lunar X-Prize competition, a number of teams from around the world joined up to try and hit the deadline. The first German team, PTScientists, may have failed to hit the launch window Google specified, but it hasn’t given up on the larger mission. In fact, it’s partnering with Nokia and Vodafone to deploy a 4G solution on the moon to support PTScientists’ two Audi Quattro rovers and the ALINA (Autonomous Landing and Navigation Module) lander. Let’s get the elephant out of the way first: Yes, there’s an awful lot of corporate branding slapped on this effort, but that’s honestly not surprising.
When one considers the types of equipment shipped up to the International Space Station, there’s a certain list of default equipment that makes sense. Spare parts? Check. Food and medical supplies? Check. Some manner of entertainment options? Check. Eleven-pound robot head? Not so much. But IBM has visions of how such hardware might be useful, and it’s developed such a device — the Crew Interactive Mobile Companion (CIMON for short). Meet Wilson, Watson, Cimon Cimon is technically powered by what IBM calls “Watson” technology, but it has a unique mission on the ISS. It will work with German astronaut Alexander Gerst to run some crystal experiments, solve a Rubik’s Cube, and conduct a “complex medical experiment” using Cimon as a flying camera.
Over the past few months, we’ve talked about the GPU market running hot and the corresponding impact on customers. What we haven’t discussed are the specifics of how the cryptocurrency craze is hitting specific GPUs or how the impact varies between AMD and Nvidia. No graphics card is a great deal right now, but there’s quite a bit of variance between how bad they are. There is, however, a substantial caveat to this discussion: GPU prices have been bouncing around since the cryptocurrency market surged and they haven’t exactly settled yet. The prices in this article are current according to Newegg as of Feb.
A Virginia robotics company wants to challenge some of the norms of autonomous driving. It’s built a scalable operating platform that can scale to work with vacuum cleaners, cars, farm equipment, railroad locomotives, and even mining trucks the size of small homes. Perrone Robotics Inc. of Charlottesville, Virginia, has for the past 14 years been developing its MAX (mobile autonomy to X, or everything) platform, taken part in the DARPA Grand Challenge, gotten high visibility funding from the likes of Intel Capital, and is collaborating on vertebrate animal movement research that can be applied to robots and autonomous vehicles.
