HP’s Chromebase. (Source: HP) HP introduced their Chromebase 21.5-inch All-in-One Desktop and claims it is the world’s first Chromebase All-in-One with a rotating display The screen can tilt 20 degrees upwards and easily rotate 90 degrees from landscape to portrait mode. The HP Chromebase AiO also has a split-screen feature that allows for viewing multiple pages simultaneously. The device … Read more
What is the metaverse. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia announced a significant expansion of its Omniverse simulation and collaboration platform—through new integrations with Blender and Adobe. Omniverse is now available to potentially millions of more users. The world’s leading open-source 3D animation tool, Blender, will now have Universal Scene Description (USD) support, enabling artists to access Omniverse production pipelines. Adobe collaborates … Read more
Source: SiliconArts SiliconArts is releasing a dedicated ray-tracing accelerator core into the Intel Solutions Marketplace. As an Intel Partner Alliance (IPA) Gold Member, SiliconArts is expanding its support for FPGA design services to incorporate its ray tracing IP into a dedicated IP core that can be combined with legacy GPUs to provide ray tracing to any level of graphics … Read more
Dassault Systèmes was pleased enough by the company’s performance in the second quarter of 2021 that the company has raised guidance for the year. It was a quarter that met expectations all around. In his remarks to press and analysts, Dassault CEO Bernard Charlès said that the company’s clients have changed over these months of quarantine. He says they are … Read more
The RX 6600 XT stacks up to its predecessors while being power conscious
Last March, Bentley Systems acquired Seequent in a billion-dollar deal that certainly impressed us. At the time Bentley, Seequent, and its partners in the deal Accel-KKR said the deal would be accretive. And it clearly was Bentley’s new subsidiary, Seequent, which operates in Christchurch, New Zealand quickly acquired Danish geospatial imaging company Aarhus Geosoft and most recently has announced plans … Read more
Mac Pro driving three screens. (Source: Apple) AMD tied two of its new RDNA 2 GPU together with its Infinity Cache and made the Radeon Pro W6000X, a custom AIB series for Apple. AMD says the new AIB product line delivers exceptional performance and incredible visual fidelity to power a wide variety of demanding professional applications and workloads, including … Read more
Founded in a garage in Palo Alto, HP has fixed up the place since then. (Source: HP) HP has spent the last several years quizzing its customers, analysts, and investors about the future of workstations and the future of work. Looks like they’ve gotten their answer. HP has announced plans to acquire Teradici Corporation. Teradici Corporation based in British … Read more
Globalfoundries agrees to what the world said
We are the Borg. We will assimilate you
Baylor University researchers at Baylor’s Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) recently announced results of three years of research into exploring the creation of a wider color gamut. They claim the new color imaging system has the capacity to dramatically increase the range of color a digital screen can display. The system—called 6P—has implications for television and cinema and could replace … Read more
In the literal sense, Moore’s Law—long a definition and quantification of the down-scaling of the silicon-integrated transistor area and cost—has slowed or ended, depending on how strictly one interprets the definition. But, Moore’s Law is not the point, it's a metric. Technology R&D will continue to find new ways to advance the performance and price-performance of processors and that is the point. The semantic details … Read more
