ASUS today announced AREZ, a new brand identity for ASUS Radeon RX graphics cards. Derived from Ares, the Greek god of war, AREZ-branded graphics cards are built using industry-leading automated manufacturing to provide AMD gamers and enthusiasts with superior cooling technology and a robust software ecosystem.
An interesting entry has been spotted in the latest AMD Linux GPU driver. It calls for "Vega 20" with six new device IDs. As we talked about before "Vega 20" is rumored to be an optical die shrink of the current "Vega 10" GPU to a newer process, either 12 m, 10nm, or even 7nm.
NVIDIA has just announced what is being touted as the world's most advanced GPU for professionals - the Quadro GV100. This card is based on NVIDIA's Volta architecture and packs in 5120 CUDA cores. The GV100 is made for many different workloads from machine learning to HPC, it is actually the only professional graphics card capable of processing workloads around the new RTX raytracing suite. That by itself should make the card sell quickly.
The latest rumors are saying that NVIDIA's next-generation crypto-mining Turing graphics cards are expected to be revealed at GTC 2018, which takes place between March 26-29. Even so, it looks like Turing won't start mass production until the third quarter of 2018.
The manufacturing division of NVIDIA, which sub-contracts silicon fabrication to TSMC is now calculating the impact a cryptocurrency slump could have on its supply-chain, and are being very conservative with the amount of orders to the foundry.
There have been rumors circulating around Wall Street that an AMD takeover might happen. These are "unconfirmed takeover rumors" according to Bloomberg, but I think an acquisition of AMD makes sense for a handful of companies.
According to a report by DigiTimes, ASRock could enter the graphics card market. The company is reportedly very interested in the GPU-accelerated crypto-currency mining boom, and is looking to develop a graphics card line that will more than likely be completely based off AMD Radeon graphics processors. As I'm sure many of you know AMD Radeon GPUs are typically more efficient when it comes to crypto-mining.
Well it turns out that "Turing" is named after British scientist Alan Turing, who is credited with leading a team of mathematicians that broke the Nazi "Enigma" cryptography. In any case NVIDIA's "Turing" is a crypto-mining and blockchain compute accelerator. It is designed to be compact, efficient, and ready to be deployed in large scale.
It looks like NVIDIA is working on a TITAN V-style surprise for next month. A recent report by Reuters, which summarized the company's Q4-2017 results and outlook, said that the company is working on a new consumer graphics GPU for launch next month with the codename "Turing".
Seemingly out of nowhere NVIDIA has announced its new flagship graphics card, the TITAN V. The card makes use of the "Volta" GV100 graphics processor, the same one that drives NVIDIA's Tesla V100 HPC accelerator.
