Last year, NewTek released Lightwave 2018; this year, the company released LightWave 2019. To anyone who hasn’t covered the trials and tribulations of LightWave that doesn’t seem like big news, but the company has famously struggled to upgrade LightWave in reasonable amounts of time. Worse, the company tends to communicate with users in fits and starts, promising great new features, … Read more
When Intel decided to develop an alternative AIB to compete with discrete GPUs, they choose to use a ring of x86 processor, and called it Larrabee, named after Larrabee State Park in Whatcom County, Washington. The chip was to be released in 2010 as the core of a consumer 3D graphics AIB. Those plans were cancelled four years later in … Read more
Intel reported its calendar Q1 2019, revenues were flat year-over-year and achieved 4% growth in the PC-centric business while data-centric revenue declined 5%. “We shipped a strong mix of high-performance products and continued spending discipline while ramping 10 nm and managing a challenging NAND pricing environment. Looking ahead, we're taking a more cautious view of the year, although we expect … Read more
AMD reported its quarter results for calendar Q1 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “We delivered solid first quarter results with significant gross margin expansion as Ryzen and EPYC processor and datacenter GPU revenue more than doubled year-over-year,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We … Read more
At FMX, Intel’s Sr. Principal Engineer, Sr. Director, Advanced Rendering and Visualization, presented updates on Intel’s Rendering Framework which includes the open source tools and libraries of Embree and OSPRay, Open SWR, and the Open Image Denoise tools. Jeffers notes that the AI/ML based Open Image Denoise, is available for integration into any program, but that it is also integrated … Read more
President and Chief at Analyst, Bob O’Donnell at Technalysis ran a multi-country survey of 2,022 people and concluded that gamers want to game on everything everywhere. Some of his results are reported here. Who’s gaming where and how long. (Source: Technalysis) The type of game device people played on varied somewhat between the U.S. and China, as shown in … Read more
By the early 1990s, the PC industry was still expanding and offering plenty of opportunity for all. IBM had lost its position of leadership and for a few years the market existed on commercial off the shelf (COTS) graphics chips from TI, and a bunch of XGA and VGA clone builders. In 1994, Number Nine, a small company in Boston, … Read more
What good is a new PC with a new CPU if it doesn’t also have a new GPU? Right. So when Intel let its bestest friends in the OEM community know that they would soon be building new PCs, those OEMs also heard from Nvidia—probably just a coincidence, but lucky timing, right? So to coincide with the new new 9th … Read more
With 25 new products coming, Intel is going for breadth
If you believed, you’d a lot richer today
We just got a glimpse at what might be coming in the new Sony console. That’s exciting, and so is the new that there will be a new console. Rumors about the PS5 have been floating around for almost a year now. After Nvidia’s big push for its ray tracing technology, AMD has been cautiously quiet on its plans for … Read more
Source: Qualcomm You got to give Intel credit for trying. When the company forced out Paul Otellini as CEO in 2013 for his failure to push Intel into the mobile business, they opened their checkbook and bought ST-Ericsson’s GNSS business. The company also invested heavily in developing an SoC for smartphones. But it was too much too late, and the … Read more
