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Waveguide Maker DigiLens Secures Additional Investment by Samsung Ventures

Road to VR

DigiLens , the Silicon Valley-based waveguide maker, today announced that Samsung’s venture capital group Samsung Ventures is increasing its stake in the company. Samsung Ventures is a partner who fully understands all the different challenges of the XR ecosystem.

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Samsung's Galaxy S22 Could Get a Graphics Boost From a New AMD-Fueled Chip

GizModo VR

Samsung has unveiled the Exynos 2200, its first smartphone processor with AMD graphics. More specifically, the chip uses AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture which enables variable-rate shading and hardware-accelerated ray tracing , a technique used to make lighting effects in virtual environments appear more realistic. Read more.

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Tenstorrent to Use Samsung’s SF4X for Quasar Low-Cost AI Chiplet

Anand Tech

Tenstorrent this week announced that it had chosen to use Samsung's SF4X (4 nm-class) process technology for its upcoming low-cost, low-power codenamed Quasar chiplet for machine learning workloads. The chiplets will be made at Samsung's new fab near Taylor, Texas when it becomes operational in 2024. Foundry business. "

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Arm's Clients and Partners Signal Interest to Invest $735 Million Ahead of IPO

Anand Tech

Altogether, AMD, Apple, Cadence, Google, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Samsung, Synopsys, and TSMC have signaled an interest to purchase up to an aggregate of $735 million of Arm's American Depositary Shares (ADS), SoftBank, the owner of Arm, disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Qualcomm Swaps Out Arm for RISC-V for Next-Gen Google Wear OS Devices

Anand Tech

As part of a broad collaborative agreement with Google, Qualcomm this week said that that it will be adopting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a future Snapdragon Wear platform. Google's Wear OS, in turn, is used by a range of popular smart watches, including those from Samsung, Fossil Group, Motorola, and Casio. "Qualcomm

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HP ‘Reverb’ is the New High-res Headset on the Block, Starting at $600

Road to VR

Reverb will be the highest resolution headset in the ~100 degree consumer class when it launches in late April, followed behind by Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro (both with a pair of 1,440 × 1,600 displays). From my hands-on with the headset, it feels in the same FOV class as the Rift, Vive, and PSVR, but maybe on the lower end of the group.

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AMD Discloses Impressive ZEN Performance

VRWorld

Taking everything into consideration, there is an awful lot riding on the new ZEN architecture and its variants (Zen+, Zen Lite), as well as on the Polaris and Vega GPU architectures. ” According to AMD’s own presentation, Polaris GPU architecture targets a $35 billion market, which are significantly downplayed figures.