Today, in 1906, Grace Hopper was born in New York City. She is best known for her career as a US Navy Officer and computer scientist. Hopper was one of the first developers on the Harvard Mark II computer. It is fabled that she found the first computer program error on this computer, caused by a moth in the mechanism – coining the term computer bug.
Hopper went on to develop the first code compiler, as well as leading the development of the COBOL computer language. Here in the modern world of IT, there are rumours that Nvidia is going to codename some upcoming GPUs in honour of Grace Hopper. The latest news we have from Taiwanese industry sources indicated that Hopper GPUs will use TSMC’s CoWoS advanced packaging and power the next architecture for accelerators targeting enterprise and supercomputer use. Meanwhile, Lovelace GPUs will be used in consumer-facing GeForce graphics cards.
PC technology
- Cougar presents the first Platinum efficiency PSU Series, Polar 1200 and 1050
- Intel launches Integrated Photonics Research Center
- Acer Chair Jason Chen said the component supply shortage in the PC industry has eased, likely to be resolved by summer 2022
- Intel discontinues 14nm Gen & 10th Gen Core mobile processors
- DirectX 12 is getting H264/HEVC video encoding as a feature
Gaming
- Bungie celebrates its 30th Anniversary in Destiny 2 with off-brand Halo gear
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will require a full re-download with next week’s title update
- With the arrival of Chapter 3, Fortnite development has flipped to Unreal Engine 5
Business and other tech
- Android 12L Beta 1 is available for Pixel phones, but it is aimed at larger and folding screens
- DNA Data Drives point toward Exabyte scale
- Apple’s iPhone production tanks by 20 per cent
- Kuo: Apple’s mixed reality headset gets advanced hand detection
