Stanford’s Bill Dally leaps from academia to the computer graphics wars
Bill Dally recently made the jump from head of the computer science department at Stanford University to being chief scientist at graphics chip maker Nvidia. Now he has to be the chief visionary for the products that Nvidia will make in the future. His expertise is in parallel computing, which he believes will come to dominate the picture. If he’s right, we’ll see a shift of billions of dollars of sales from one part of… Continue Reading
Stepping up graphics war, Intel invests $12 million in German research lab
If Intel is going to get anywhere chasing after the graphics chip business, it has to invest heavily in research and development. The world’s biggest chip maker took a step in that direction today as it announced it is investing $12 million in a new research center in Germany.
The investment will fund research over five years and represents Intel’s biggest collaboration with a university in Europe. The Intel Visual Computing Institute is at the Saarland… Continue Reading