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Intel’s Arc graphics cards have been the main discussion of this weekend in the rumor mill and now we have more info coming in from Igor’s Labs. According to Igor Wallossek, who managed to obtain an updated Arc schedule, the lineup would see a gradual launch starting from the 5th of August till the 29th of September.

Intel’s Arc Desktop Graphics Card Are Coming! Launching Between August & September To Meet Summer 2022 Deadline

This would be the third launch schedule that we have heard this weekend regarding Intel’s Arc line of desktop graphics cards. The first came from Moore’s Law is Dead in a rumor which was turned down by Intel’s CEO, Pat Gelsinger, and VP of Graphics, Raja Koduri with both confirming that Arc is still very much on track for a Q3 2022 launch and now we have Igor’s Labs confirming this as well.

If they’re going to stick to the current timeframe, the range that’s being colocated to me now is between Aug. 05, 2022 and Sept. 29, 2022. This means that there is enough time to launch the three announced larger models one slice at a time. It is interesting that the internal documents no longer report about a large-scale, joint launch event, but it could rather be a kind of “silent” launch, which could be carried out gradually in the retail sector and via only a few media.

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The launch is said to take place gradually and we may even see each card become available in retail one by one rather than all being launched at once. If you look at Intel’s marketing strategy, they are doing this already. The Intel Arc A380 launched first and then Intel started talking about their high-end Arc A750 Limited Edition graphics card followed by the Arc A770 Limited Edition.

The company is also said to give select media the opportunity to review these cards ahead of the launch but whether these media only include tech YouTubers or written media outlets remains to be seen. The exclusive reviews will only be based on Intel’s own Arc reference designs while AIBs models will have no such restrictions but the rest would also have to wait longer considering that we have already seen one AIB, limited to China, release its cards weeks after launch to DIY and all reviewers who tested it had to purchase the product rather than Intel sending them out one by themselves for reviews.

We are very much committed to our roadmap. We are ramping Alchemist and will continue to improve the experience. You will see more updates from us this quarter. AXG is also on track to ramp 4 new product lines by the end of the year.

Intel Vice President of Accelerated Computing Systems & Graphics (AXG), Raja Koduri

Our software release on our discrete graphics was clearly underperforming,” said Gelsinger. “We thought that we would be able to leverage the integrated graphics software stack, and it was wholly inadequate for the performance levels, gaming compatibility, etc. that we needed. So we are not hitting our four million unit goal in the discrete graphics space, even as we are now catching up and getting better software releases.

While we will not hit our GPU unit target, we remain on track to deliver over $1 billion in revenue this year.

In Q2, we started to ramp Intel Arc graphics for laptops with OEMs, including Samsung, Lenovo, Acer, HP, and Asus. COVID-related supply chain issues and our own software-readiness challenges caused availability delays that we continue to work to overcome. Intel Arc A5 and A7 desktop cards will start to ship in Q3.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger

In addition to this, the primary reason why Intel is not doing a massive global launch but rather relying on a gradual rollout between August and September still has to do with the blue team’s readiness in terms of drivers and support. Chipzilla wants to assure that Arc is ready for users & only then will it ship the products globally.

Intel Arc A-Series Desktop Graphics Card Lineup ‘Rumored’:

Chinese GPU competes with NVIDIA graphics card since 2012

ITHome has some 3DMark 11 benchmark results featuring Glenfly Arise-GT-10C0 GPU graphics card.

Glenfly Arise GT-10C0 GPU, Source: Glenfly/Tom’s Hardware

The Glenfly graphics card is based on Zhaoxin KX-6000 series GPU which offers up to 8 cores clocked up to 3 GHz. It is compatible with x86 systems and supports 4K output. These GPU series made a debut in 2019, so they are not exactly the latest designs, but given how limited this launch was, we are only getting to see some actual test results now.

ITHome has published a 3DMark 11 result featuring this 1.5 TFLOPs card model which reportedly shows 318% improvement over the previous Chinese GPU series. However, that is still not enough to compete with any modern GPU architecture. It is, however, enough to compete with NVIDIA GT 630 card based on Kepler architecture from 2012. Both cards offer nearly identical performance (1046 vs 1016 points) in 3DMark 11:

Glenfly Arise GT-10C0 in 3DMark11, Source: ITHome/Wccftech

This result shows that Chinese GPUs still have a very long way ahead to reach parity with NVIDIA/AMD GPUs. But Zhaoxin processors are not the only ones competing in this field, Jing Jawei and Innosilicon are becoming just as popular GPU brands in China, brands that they are yet to prove themselves in real-world tests.

Source: ITHome via Wccftech

Spacewar!, the first known digital video game ever made, is now available on the Analogue Pocket thanks to the new PDP-1 Core developed with openFPGA.

FPGA, or field-programmable gate array, is a type of integrated circuit that can be reconfigured after it’s manufactured. openFPGA, on the other hand, is the “first purpose built, FPGA driven hardware and ecosystem designed for 3rd party development of video game hardware.” It was also “created specifically for preserving video game history.”

spacewar! is obviously a big part of video game history and a 3rd party developer has “painstakingly recreated” the game released on the PDP-1 in 1962 by developers at MIT using public domain open source code for openFPGA.

Using openFPGA, a 3rd party developer “Spacemen3” recreated the PDP-1 and Spacewar! using the original source code in the public domain. You can play it today on Pocket with openFPGA by following this guide here: https://t.co/XFS3ARmaUe pic.twitter.com/ut6N6Ovois

— Analogue (@analogue) July 29, 2022

As PC gaming and more so mobile gaming takes off console gaming is starting to feel the effects of a consumer switch to new gaming platforms with Microsoft reporting that in the last quarter 2022 sales of the Xbox were down 7% year-on-year, with declines in revenue from both hardware (down 11%) and content and services (down 6%).

Recently the big gaming Company cut a deal with Samsung to get their Game Pass games in front of millions of consumers who own a current model Samsung TV, this is expected to grow both PC and mobile gaming in Australia generating millions in revenue for Microsoft as users look for high performance TV and monitor display screens.

Currently both Microsoft and Sony’s consoles are in short supply partially due to global supply chain problems.

Game Industry Biz claims that the failure is largely attributable to economic and supply chain conditions that are global in nature.

The 11% decline in hardware revenues, in particular, is very specific to the current climate, rather than being indicative of a deeper problem.

They claim that Microsoft is a little more exposed to demand-side issues at this point simply because the Xbox Series S has much better availability.

On the software front God of War Ragnarok was one of only three major releases Sony delivered this year Microsoft has none.

While the supply chain issues remain a source of frustration the more concerning numbers, are the lower levels of engagement and monetization Microsoft reported.

While Game Pass, is continuing to grow its subscription numbers, the 6% dip in content and services revenue arguably stands as quantifiable evidence of the common claim that 2022 is simply a weak year for game releases.

This is something that many commentators and consumers have been saying since the start of the year and was amplified further when publisher showcases in late spring confirmed that several more major titles have slipped to 2023.

Elden Ring is the only real blockbuster we’ve had thus far.

Microsoft’s failure to release new games is a consequence of the firm’s ongoing struggle to bring its first party and platform exclusive development pipeline up to scratch after years of neglect claims GIB.

They claim that the problem is industry-wide, and this drop in engagement is likely to be reflected across 2022’s numbers from many of the industry’s biggest companies.

Microsoft’s numbers do carry a warning for how 2022 is going to shape up.

Many companies are going to post tough figures this year reports GIB.

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Popular video-game streamer Dr Disrespect on Sunday revealed early footage from the first game of his new gaming studio, a first-person shooter Deadrop. People are already tearing it to shreds on social media.

The announcement comes months after Dr Disrespect announced the launch of the games studio he founded with Call of Duty and Halo veterans Robert Bowling, Quinn DelHoyo, and Sumit Gupta called Midnight Society. Disrespect founded the studio a year after he was permanently banned on Twitch for still unknown reasons and is now on a quest to create video games that rival the best FPS franchises.

Disrespect and Midnight Studios describes the game as “the world’s first vertical extraction shooter” and early access has been given to fans who bought the $50 Founders Access Passes. And to be clear — more clear than the definition of a “vertical extraction shooter” — this is early footage and you can tell in the video below by the choppy framerate, poor gun mechanics, lack of animations, sound design, etc.

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However, what makes the reveal sting even worse was Disrespect’s comments on the game in June. He stated in a now-deleted tweet that Deadrop “blows out anything from CoD engine.” Subsequently, his bold claim was met with ridicule by fans. Some have compared it to a mobile game and others have described it as an arcade shooter you’d find at Chuck E. Cheese.

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According to PC Gamer, Deadrop also serves as a way for Midnight Studios to sell NFTs. Players who have bought the Founder Pass have access to snapshot builds of the game that release every six weeks. These snapshots come with “procedurally generated NFTs of a character who serves as [the player’s] in-game avatar.”

Again, this game is in the very early stages of development, and it’s very uncommon to show gameplay this early in the process for the obvious reasons seen above. A release date is far in the future for Deadrop so maybe Dr Disrespect will prove us wrong and the game will blow away our expectations. Maybe.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez — affectionately known as “Bennifer” — are back together after nearly two decades apart. The actor and singer-actor have made a dramatic return to the headlines that has many people asking the age-old question: Should I get back with my ex, too?

It’s a question that plagues a lot of people, says Laura F. Dabney, MD, a psychiatrist specializing in marriage and relationships, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

“It’s comforting to know somebody already,” Dr. Dabney says — versus the fear of something new. “And when the attraction is still there, too, that desire to make it work can be very appealing.”

What’s more, it can be difficult to grieve the loss of a relationship, says Bonnie Scott, a licensed professional counselor in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. “So, if we can slide back into a pattern with an ex, there’s no end to mourn. And that’s pretty tempting.”

A roadmap for the future direction of quantum simulation has been set out in a paper co-authored at the University of Strathclyde.

Quantum computers are hugely powerful devices with a capacity for speed and calculation which is well beyond the reach of classical, or binary, computing. Instead of a binary system of zeroes and ones, it operates through superpositions, which may be zeroes, ones or both at the same time.

The continuously-evolving development of quantum computing has reached the point of having an advantage over classical computers for an artificial problem. It could have future applications in a wide range of areas. One promising class of problems involves the simulation of quantum systems, with potential applications such as developing materials for batteries, industrial catalysis and nitrogen fixing.

The paper, published in Nature, explores near- and medium-term possibilities for quantum simulation on analogue and digital platforms to help evaluate the potential of this area. It has been co-written by researchers from Strathclyde, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, the University of Innsbruck, the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Microsoft Corporation.

Professor Andrew Daley, of Strathclyde’s Department of Physics, is lead author of the paper. He said: “There has been a great deal of exciting progress in analogue and digital quantum simulation in recent years, and quantum simulation is one of the most promising fields of quantum information processing. It is already quite mature, both in terms of algorithm development, and in the availability of significantly advanced analogue quantum simulation experiments internationally.

“In computing history, classical analogue and digital computing co-existed for more than half a century, with a gradual transition towards digital computing, and we expect the same thing to happen with the emergence of quantum simulation.

“As a next step along the development of this technology, it is now important to discuss ‘practical quantum advantage,’ the point at which quantum devices will solve problems of practical interest that are not tractable for traditional supercomputers.

“Many of the most promising short-term applications of quantum computers fall under the umbrella of quantum simulation: modeling the quantum properties of microscopic particles that are directly relevant to understanding modern materials science, high-energy physics and quantum chemistry.

“Quantum simulation should be possible in the future on fault-tolerant digital quantum computers with more flexibility and precision, but it can also already be done today for specific models through special-purpose analogue quantum simulators. This happens in an analogous way to the study of aerodynamics, which can be conducted either in a wind tunnel or through simulations on a digital computer. Where aerodynamics often use a smaller scale model to understand something big, analogue quantum simulators often take a larger scale model to understand something even smaller.

“Analogue quantum simulators are now moving from providing qualitative demonstrations of physical phenomena to providing quantitative solutions for native problems. A particularly exciting way forward in the near term is the development of a range of programmable quantum simulators hybridising digital and analogue techniques. This holds great potential because it combines the best advantages of both sides by making use of the native analogue operations to produce highly entangled states.”

The University of Strathclyde and all of the partners on this perspective article have large, active programs involving both theory of architectures and algorithms, as well as development of platforms for analogue quantum simulation and digital quantum computing. The partners have been collaborating as part of the Horizon 2020 EU Quantum Technologies Flagship project PASQuanS. At Strathclyde, research in this area is strongly embedded in the UK’s national quantum technology programme, and has received substantial funding from UK Research and Innovation.

A Quantum Technology Cluster is embedded in the Glasgow City Innovation District, an initiative driven by Strathclyde along with Glasgow City Council, Scottish Enterprise, Entrepreneurial Scotland and Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. It is envisaged as a global place for quantum industrialisation, attracting companies to co-locate, accelerate growth, improve productivity and access world-class research technology and talent at Strathclyde.

The University of Strathclyde is the only academic institution that has been a partner in all four EPSRC-funded Quantum Technology Hubs in both phases of funding. The Hubs are in: Sensing and Timing; Quantum Enhanced Imaging; Quantum Computing and Simulation, and Quantum Communications Technologies.

Reference:

1. Andrew J. Daley, Immanuel Bloch, Christian Kokail, Stuart Flannigan, Natalie Pearson, Matthias Troyer, Peter Zoller. Practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation. Nature, 2022; 607 (7920): 667 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04940-6

YouTube has presented another tool that makes it simpler for creators to transform ordinary videos into Shorts, it is announced locally update. In the event that you have any of your own videos loaded up, you’ll see another tool under “Create” called “Edit into a Short” just inside the primary app. It allows you to choose as long as 60 seconds of the video and bring it straightforwardly into the Shorts editor, where you can add text filters, or extra video, then upload it as a Short.

YouTube needs to increase the quantity of short-structure “Shorts” videos accessible on its platform rapidly to better rival TikTok. To help with this work, the organization is today carrying out another maker tool that transforms existing YouTube videos into Shorts right away. The update, presently accessible on YouTube’s mobile app, allows a video maker to effortlessly choose a section of any video they’ve uploaded beforehand, then, at that point, publish that clip as YouTube Shorts content.

After you upload the Short, it links to the full video it was taken from through the “Created from” interface at the lower part of the video. That allows creators to use Shorts as promo tools for the fundamental video, helping drive perspectives and engagement. Notwithstanding, the tool just chips away at your own substance, dissimilar to Cut, which lets you remix content from any video.

The organization was at that point changing over clients’ uploaded vertical videos under 60 seconds as Shorts videos, regardless of whether the substance had been initially uploaded as a standard YouTube video. (Not all creators were fans of this thought, we ought to note.) Now YouTube is hoping creators will all the more effectively assist with working out the Shorts library considerably further with the launch of this new tool that permits them to clip interesting bits from their more extended videos.

The move might signal the amount YouTube parent Google is stressed over TikTok’s predominance in short-form. Obviously, it doesn’t imagine that allowing YouTube’s Shorts library to become naturally through new, unique substance uploads will be sufficient to contend. All things considered, YouTube has been depending on leveraging its current long-form content to make more Shorts. This April, for instance, YouTube announced that any open YouTube video could be “remixed” into YouTube Shorts except if creators quit.

The new tool, in the interim, basically returns a portion of the capacity to the creators’ own hands.

The updated mobile app allows creators to choose a part of their video as long as 60 seconds long and transform that into Shorts content utilizing similar altering tools they knew all about inside the app, making sense of the organization. On the off chance that their choice is under 60 seconds in length, they can shoot extra videos utilizing the Shorts camera or they can add gallery videos to finish their 60-second Shorts content.

Creators might be propelled to involve the tool for the purpose of producing interest in their long-form content, as YouTube takes note that Shorts made utilizing VOD (video on demand) happy will automatically link back to the first.

YouTube has been touting Shorts’ capacity to drive perspectives to creators’ long-form content as a part of a pattern it alluded to as “the rise of the multiformat creator.” In June, the organization said Shorts had topped 1.5 billion logged-in month-to-month clients yet just had anecdotal data to recommend that Shorts were assisting with developing critical metrics like watch time or subscribers.

Meanwhile, the way that YouTube is leaning so heavily on its current long-form content to work out Shorts recommends a potential absence of maker premium in filming unique Shorts; or it could likewise imply that YouTube eventually still considers more potential to be a long-form platform — yet it imagines Shorts as a marketing mechanism to boost sees for its better-monetized content.

The new Shorts creation feature is rolling out beginning today on YouTube’s mobile app for the two iOS and Android gadgets, the organization says.

YouTube Shorts is currently being watched by over 1.5 billion signed-in clients consistently with in excess of 30 billion day-to-day sees.

The organization said that this update will allow clients to carry new life to their exemplary substance and give them a better approach to connecting with their audience.

Assuming clients select a part of their video that is under 60 seconds, they can shoot extra videos with the Shorts camera as well as upload additional videos from their gallery to make 60 seconds Shorts if necessary.

The organization mentioned that main the first creator will actually want to bring their long-form videos into Shorts as this tool isn’t accessible for different creators to use in their substance.

Shorts made from VODs will link back to the first lengthy structure videos so that individuals watching their Short can see the first video as well.

Google has seen empowerment bring about its initial monetization endeavors on the short-video making stage YouTube Shorts.

The massive progress of TikTok has forced all social media networks to answer somehow or another. Be that as it may, Instagram as of late backpedaled on its TikTok-like full-screen feed and suggested post features following a significant backlash from clients.

YouTube is ostensibly less threatened by TikTok as it offers longer-structure content that draws an alternate audience. The new tool demonstrates the way that it can have its (Short?) cake and eat it as well, however, by allowing creators to offer Shorts as a type of publicity for their essential substance.

How the new feature works

In the event that the client is the creator of the full video, they’ll have the option to carry the clip into the Shorts editor straightforwardly from the YouTube app on iOS or Android to get to all of the editing tools, including text, timeline editor, and filters.

Assuming they select part of the video that is under 60 seconds, they can shoot extra video with the Shorts camera and upload more from their gallery. To shoot or add a gallery video, you’ll have to hit the back arrow once in the altering screen after you’ve picked your video segment.