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While in general I am very much in favour of playing both sides of an abstraction, I would argue that RTL is nowhere near the top of the stack. In the GPU world, you have games, wh…

Modern gpus + drover stack usually had more than one frame in flight. You have to output a frame every 4ms, but you do not need the latency from the start of the application render…

I think multisampling may be the answer. For partial rendering all samples must be written out, but for the final one you can resolve(average) them before writeout.

GPU hardware architecture. It's just a never ending stream of fun problems to solve and I love it!

On reading your original post again, what you experienced (both being super exhausted after work, and a shower helping) resonates with my what I felt early on in my career. Things …

Kids. That's it, really, and I love it. Nothing makes me snap out of it like being assigned a role from Paw Patrol by my two year old, and going off on some rescue mission. It's pu…

I totally agree that the existence of these drugs make the world a better place. I also totally agree that there should be significant financial upside to developing drugs like the…

That particular drug was on the news in Norway this week because it is so incredibly expensive that the state don't want to pay for it. We are talking 20-30k USD per month per pati…

It works in Firefox on my a32

I don't think they can use jpg directly, that would be a waste of transistors given that the graphics world use other compression formats like etc1, bc, astc and so on. It is howev…

Micropolygons. He said on twitter that most of the triangles are pixel sized or smaller. This approach would fall flat on its face with large primitives: - The for loop in the rast…

Are the consequences of the massive energy usage also opt-in?

I'll wager a guess: ASML, the Dutch company that makes the magic machines TSMC(and others) use to make chips.

I agree with that - but if you take an unchanged core and manufacture it at a different node, then you won't see a change in IPC, which in my book makes it questionable to attribut…

Process node changes generally doesn't do anything for IPC - those are generally rather due to microarchitecture improvements, so I doubt the move to 5nm has anything to do with th…

Mobile GPUs (Imagination PowerVR, Qualcomm Adreno, Arm Mali, Apple's GPU) are exactly that.

Some of these are pure gold! "2:4 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more like a controlled use of shared memory."

I used Meshuggah - Bleed and a carrying harness to get my then 2 month old to sleep. Close enough to white noise, and motivation for daddy to keep rocking. Not sure I want to read …

I live in Northern Norway in eastern Finnmark. This article seems to miss these points - When you are sufficiently far north, winter means beautiful snowy landscapes, aurora boreal…

I do wonder what this means for Arm's Mali GPUs if this goes through.

I'd argue that modern GPUs pipelines are quite different from the API programming models they support, especially tile based renderers do lots of funny things while maintaining the…

I was in Kenya just after this, when Miguna Miguna went missing for a few days (people feared he had been disappeared,but he "just" got deported). As chance would have it, I was in…