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Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit Live Blog: Compute Spotlight

Anand Tech

We're here in sunny Hawaii for day two of Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit. As well, the company gave us our first look at their Oryon CPU architecture, which will be driving the X Elite, and eventually Qualcomm's smartphones, automotive chips, and more.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Road to VR

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835.

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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling

Anand Tech

GPU Architectures. AMD: Hawaii. In the case of NVIDIA’s recent video cards, the underlying Turing architecture has supported these features since the very beginning. The software groundwork for this has been laid in the latest version of Windows 10, version 2004, and now is being enabled in GPU drivers for the first time.

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Qualcomm announces AR2 chip to pave the road to the augmented reality glasses of the future

The Ghost Howls

Unluckily I haven’t been able to go to Hawaii to enjoy the live announcement (and enjoy some drinks on the seaside), but I attended a preview of the presentation dedicated to the press, so I’m able to tell you everything I’ve learned about this new chip, and why it is so important for me.

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Nvidia Credits AMD for Unifying Game Development

VRWorld

The arrival of new, AMD powered consoles brought the x86 architecture back to Microsoft (Intel x86, IBM PowerPC, AMD x86), and marked the third architectural change for Sony (SGI MIPS, IBM PowerPC, AMD x86). In 2013, the situation for PC gaming was rather grim. Capturing just 1% of that market is over 1.5 million copies sold.

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Pascal Secrets: What Makes Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 so Fast?

VRWorld

And if you’re doing search optimization or simulation, you want a different architecture that does not look anything like high-performance, low-power CMOS.” Intel builds just a limited number of core architectures, and then sells it in multiple packages (from Celeron / Pentium to Xeon E7).