CyberLink’s PhotoDirector 10 is too much
Look Mom, I shrunk Egypt
AMD delivers a software holiday gift—a boatload of software
AMD’s Adrenalin 2019 Edition has delivered some of the biggest and most unique features we’ve seen so far from the company. The heart of the new software package is a tuned driver that the company claims gives up to a 15% average performance gain since the launch of Adrenalin Edition software in November 2018. The Game Advisor, AMD’s game tuning … Read more
Intel’s Koduri lays out the company’s six pillar for the future
At Intel’s recent Architecture Day, Raja Koduri, Intel’s senior vice president of Core and Visual Computing, outlined a strategic shift for the company’s design and engineering model. This shift, said Koduri, will combine a series of foundational building blocks that leverage a portfolio of technologies and intellectual property (IP) within the company. “We are generating data faster than we can … Read more
Famous graphics chips: Intel’s 82786
Now that Intel is reentering the discrete graphics chip market, we thought you might like to know about some of their previous offerings. Everyone knows about Larrabee, and a few remember the i740, but Intel did a chip before that, in 1986. Intel saw the rise in discrete graphics controllers such as NEC’s µPD7220 (and even licensed it), Hitachi’s HD63484, … Read more
Unreal cities—can AI generate them?
Cities are big complex 3D models and take time to create (model) and render. Various procedural generation concepts have been explored over the years and although some worked in limited or special cases, no one has found the holy grail of realtime city generation. Researchers at Nvidia have experimented using AI as a possible tool. By running video of a … Read more
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform is the first commercial mobile platform supporting multi-gigabit 5G, capable of AI and XR. Using 7-nm process technology, the Snapdragon 855, says the company, will offer users long-lasting battery life and superior experiences in areas such as imaging, audio, gaming, and XR. Keith Kressin, Qualcomm’s senior Vice President of Product marketing pointed out that … Read more
Nvidia reveals the Turing-based Titan RTX AIB
Designed for a variety of GPU computation applications Nvidia has launched its Titan RTX targeting AI training, real-time ray-traced graphics, and virtual reality markets with it. The company calls out the following features of the new AIB. 576 multi-precision Turing Tensor Cores, providing up to 130 teraflops 72 Turing RT Cores, delivering up to 11 GigaRays per second of real-time … Read more
Imagination reveals new PowerVR Series9 GPUs
Imagination Technologies announced its new PowerVR Series9XEP, Series9XMP, and Series9XTP GPU IP designs. The 9XEP and 9XMP are based on Imagination’s Rogue architecture and the higher end 9XTP GPU is based on Furian. The new designs range from entry-level to high-end with efficiency improvements, new features, and performance enhancements. Imagination is targeting the new designs at smartphones, automotive infotainment products, … Read more
This moment in history—5G goes live
December 4, 2018 marks as the rollout of 5G
Free physics from Nvidia
Version 3.4 is available on GitHub today
And then there were 21—free ray tracing programs
In the process of preparing our 2019 Ray tracing and Rendering report, we have searched for all the ray tracing programs and suppliers we could find. The report is about geometry-based ray tracing and does not embrace field, optical, audio, or other non-3D (virtual or real) ray tracing applications or software. We have identified 71 raytracing programs from integrated to … Read more
Jon Peddie Research releases its Q3, 2018 add-in board report
Q3 2018 goes down as worst third quarter for add-in boards in over 10 years