At the PTC LiveWorx19 conference the other week, CEO and visionary Jim Heppelmann showed off Volvo trucks—actually had two of them on stage with him during his keynote. Volvo and PTC have been working together for years. Volvo uses just about every bit of software PTC makes including PTC’s AR stuff—and they need to. Last year, Volvo made 260,000 trucks—that’s … Read more
What is GPU virtualization? Conceptually, virtualization is the capability of a device to host one or more virtual machines (VMs) that each behave like actual independent machines with their its own operating system (OS), all running on the same underlying device hardware. For GPUs, this means the capability to support multiple operating systems running concurrently, each capable of submitting graphics … Read more
Really really big
Lenovo has introduced the next generation of its ThinkPad P Series mobile workstations with the release of five new ThinkPads, including the ThinkPad P73, ThinkPad P53, ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, and ThinkPad P53s and P43s. The new portfolio, says the company, is designed to meet the ever-changing power and portability needs of modern professionals across industries—both in the office and … Read more
A phoenix rises with an AR pro
Dungeon maze unusual venue for showing off ray tracing
Playing a classic with shinny water
We the committed—wait. Mill around outside 08:30 to 09:00, seated 09:00, show starts at 10:00, ends 12:30—fours of Applesauce Apple’s slick back cylindrical Mac Pro circa 2013. (Source: Apple) Dub dub has never been boring or trite, and this year was no exception, except it was exceptional. Everybody and their cat is writing about all the stuff Apple announced … Read more
Eurocom has introduced its latest laptop, the Eurocom Nightsky RX15, a 15.6-inch system with a Retina-type OLED panel from Samsung. The company says the Nightsky RX15 was designed for a variety of users ranging from architects, designers of all kinds, graphics, audio, and video professionals, up to gamers who require high-performance, on-the-go computing at under 2.5 kg. The laptop comes … Read more
Following on the heels of the big Samsung deal, AMD got another boost on Monday when Apple announced the Mac Pro workstation based on AMD graphics AIBs. Apple has about 8% market share of a 5.5-million units market, so the company can look forward to something north of 500k high-end (high-margin) AIBs being sold to Apple. If you’re interested in … Read more
AMD lifted the AIB market in the quarter
As you know I am a very close follower of anything that moves or mangles a pixel, and over the years Intel has mangled lots of pixels. I’ve been closely monitoring all leaks, tweaks, tweets, and feats from and about Intel’s dGPU efforts sometimes referred to as Xe and sometimes called Odd-oh-see. Recently while visiting Intel I managed to, ah, … Read more
