The needs of the few outweighed the needs of the many

The people behind Vulkan, the new generation, open standard API for high-efficiency access to graphics and compute on modern GPUs, have admitted that they are having a few problems.

A laa dee dee, a one two three its Samsung's Larrabee

A while ago Fudzilla reported that Samsung has been working hard  making its own, in house GPU, but it is starting to look like things are not working well in the mix and there have been a few delays.

Exclusive: Highest end are HBM 2.0, GDDR6, GDDR5X

AMD over-hyped the new  High Bandwidth Memory standard and now the second generation HBM 2.0 is coming in 2016. However it looks like most of GPUs shipped in this year will still rely on the older GDDR5.

Exclusive: Quietly working behind the scenes

The Fruity cargo cult Apple has been quietly working behind the scenes to create its own GPU, Fudzilla can reveal.

Two unlocked Fiji chips

Word on the street is that AMD’s next dual-GPU graphics card, codenamed Gemini, will be released next month.

Boltz is the mann

Troubled chipmaker AMD is putting a lot of its limited investment money into the “Boltzmann Initiative” which is uses heterogeneous system architecture ability to harness both CPU and AMD GPU for compute efficiency through software.

Koduri talks about his cunning plan

AMDs’ head graphics guy, Raja Koduri promised that AMD will have two new GPUs out next year.

Slow recovery

AMD  managed to take a tiny part of the discrete market share back from Nvidia. 

AMD and Nvidia doing well

Beancounters at JPR have been adding up the numbers and dividing by their shoe size and worked out that GPU shipments are up for both Nvidia and AMD.

Packing the full Tonga/ Antigua GPU

The long awaited AMD Radeon R9 380X will launch on 15th November with a full Tonga/Antigua GPU, with 2048 Stream Processors, plus 4GB GDDR5 memory and a 256-bit memory interface.