Yesterday, AMD showed off the first real-time benchmarks of the Radeon Vega graphics card against the NVIDIA Pascal based Tesla P100 in deep learning benchmarks. In its first attempt, the RTG developed GPU was able to give NVIDIA's best compute card from last year a good beating but there's more to the benchmarks. NVIDIA launched the Tesla P100 based on Pascal GP100 back in early 2016. Since then, it has been the fastest compute solution available to date. NVIDIA kicked off 2017 with the announcement of the next chapter in graphics deep learning.

The days of lugging around a laptop computer are on the way out, because you may soon be able to fit a portable computer into your wallet. Intel introduced its latest mini-computer at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas yesterday. Called the Compute Card, the device is so small and thin it's the size of a credit card, just slightly thicker. Intel introduced its latest mini-computer at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas yesterday. Called the Compute Card, the device is so small and thin it's the size of a credit card, just slightly thicker The Compute Card is a computer, complete with 7th Generation Intel Kaby Lake processor, memory, Bluetooth, storage and wireless connectivity.

You've perhaps never seen a full-blown computer smaller than Intel's amazingly thin Compute Card, announced for the first time at CES. At first glance, it's easy to mistake the modular computer for a credit card or smart card. It's so thin, it could be easy to lose. But it's a full blown computer, crammed with a 7th Generation Intel Kaby Lake processor, memory, storage, and wireless connectivity. It's so small, it can't accommodate USB-C or other ports to power up or connect to displays.