I care about pixels, Apples’ and everybody else’s
Lawyers don’t know anything about pixels
Imagination Technologies ups its cadence and product breadth
Ranging from semi-custom to mass market
SiliconArts new ray tracing chip and IP
4th generation path tracing engine
Qualcomm’s ‘XR Enterprise Program’
At the Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit (EWTS) in Dallas this week, Qualcomm announced a new initiative they’re calling the Qualcomm XR Enterprise Program. The program brings XR technologies and products based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR platform, together with enterprise solution providers to collaborate, innovate and help drive AR and VR adoption in a range of industries including manufacturing, … Read more
Fortune telling: the complicated GPU market
There are nine segments to the PC GPU market, served by three suppliers. One company, today, serves eight of the nine segments, AMD. Nvidia serves seven of the nine, and Intel currently serves two segments. GPU segments and suppliers Our outlook for GPU sales as we enter Q4 is bullish in spite of the topsy-turvy political football of … Read more
Wanna be a TV star? — Nvidia wants to make your dream come true
Unsplash Stem.T4L Nvidia just announced its RTX Broadcast Engine at the TwitchCon (a gathering of live streamers), which is a new set of RTX-accelerated software development kits that use the AI capabilities of GeForce RTX GPUs to transform live streams. Nvidia says its RTX GPU’s new SDKs enable virtual greenscreens, style filters and augmented reality effects techniques like those … Read more
Qualcomm the platform master
Photo by Jeshoots.com on Unsplash While Apple and Samsung look on in envy, Qualcomm has been designing and supplying Snapdragon, the best SoC available for high-end phones, and midrange phones for years. In addition to smartphones and tablets, the SoCs have found their way into vehicles including automobiles, TVs, VR headsets, drones, and other devices. Snapdragon has become a … Read more
Famous Graphics Chips: Artist Graphics GPX
Artist Graphics founded 1979 by Horace and Robert Beale, in Minneapolis released their first add-in board, the Artist 1 in November of 1982, based on an NEC 7220 and sporting a gigantic 1024 × 768 resolution. The traditional semiconductor suppliers like Hitachi, NEC, and Texas Instruments were not keeping up with the demands of the graphics industry, and the graphics … Read more
Ray tracing will be unavoidable in 2020
Ray tracing has been used in games for some time, but as baked in images. Ray tracing, even at 30 fps, is a computational challenge that has befuddled and frustrated hardware and software engineers for decades. With clever algorithms, Moore’s Law, and dogged perseverance, computer graphics companies have pushed the envelope further every year, with 2018 marking the breakout year … Read more
EVGA tidy ups your PC and smooths out the power
Does your PC look like someone dumped a bowl of spaghetti in it and left? Does it remind you a teenager’s closet or the abandoned room your dear old Aunt Ethel used to live in? Well EVGA has a new broom and you can sweep away that clutter, at least a little of it. What if you could hide the … Read more
HP’s pretty new notebook and curvy display
HP has been pushing on design as well as technology to find their competitive niche. The company’s new consumer laptops with wood finishes are a delight to see and hold. Now comes the commercial version and along the way they’ve lost a little weight and gained some time. The new 13-inch Elite Dragonfly notebook weighs less than a kilogram (~ … Read more
What if while you were playing a game
If you’ve ever played with or installed wi-fi operated lights like GE smart bulb or Philips’ Hue, then you’ve had the pleasure and fun of making them change color and brightness on command or by a timer. What if you could have those effects while you were playing a game? What if when you went into a dark tunnel or … Read more