At Siggraph, in the Blender booth, Boxx introduced its Everest model of the Apexx brand workstations. Powered by the 64-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series processor, the company demonstrated the Blender rendering engine in Blender’s booth.
Ever since Intel announced it was entering the dGPU race, there has been speculation, opinion, leaks, and rumors about what the elephant in the room might look or be like. Intel didn’t make the guessing any easier by changing names, codes, and specs, and strategically dropped hints and leaks. ASRock appears to be the first AIB partner to announce an … Read more
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Siggraph 2022, set in Vancouver and virtually, was filled with the usual array of beautiful and amazing images, startling new developments in processors and displays, and a myriad of other CG wonderment, in other words, just a normal Siggraph—with one exception this year—the metaverse. The metaverse is here, again, and guess what, we invented it. Who is “we”? Anyone who … Read more
Nvidia is aligning itself with the metaverse and positioning its Omniverse as the foundation for building a metaverse. It has introduced new AI tools and greatly expanded the partners and participants in its Omniverse, and is offering various open source software tools for the Omniverse, and they are calling it all neurographics. Neural graphics will be the essential pillar of … Read more
Sougwen Chung is an artist and engineer whose exhibitions and performances have taken place in galleries and museums all over the world. At Siggraph 2022 in Vancouver, she gave the keynote speech titled Seeing Double. She began her talk saying two sets of eyes take in the same scene, the same light comes through two apertures that see two completely … Read more
Intel recently released the Intel Open Path Guiding Library (Intel Open PGL), claiming to be the industry’s first open-source library that enables developers to easily integrate state-of-the-art path-guiding methods into their renderers. That may be so, but Path Tracing is pretty much the same thing as Path Guiding in that both offer a shortcut to ray tracing by finding the … Read more
At Siggraph-time Intel joined the ranks of professional graphics board developers with the introduction of the Intel Arc Pro A-series of GPUs. The first products are the Intel Arc Pro A30M GPU for mobile form factors and the Intel Arc Pro A40 (single slot) and A50 (dual slot) GPUs for small-form factor desktops. They all feature built-in ray tracing hardware, … Read more
Crypto mining manufacturer Innosilicon is located on the island of Hengqin in Zhuhai, a special economic zone very close to the three islands that make up Macau. In December 2021 the mining machine builder announced it would use Imagination Technologies’ IMG BXT multi-core GPU IP to build its Fenghua (magnificent) 1 dGPU and produce an AIB from it named Fantasy … Read more
Unlike some of its competitors, AMD drove sales up in Q2 (above guidance and helped by Xilinx), although its expenses went up more, and margins and profit dropped. “We delivered our eighth-straight quarter of record revenue based on our strong execution and expanded product portfolio,” said AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su. “Each of our segments grew significantly year-over-year, … Read more
Intel’s financial report revealed two hard-to-ignore situations. In a quarter where the company reported a loss combined with dropping margins and sales, Pat Gelsinger also jettisoned several non-essential business units that contributed to the drain. Of the groups Gelsinger got rid of was Optane (started in 2017, never made a profit), sold McAfee (bought in 2010, never made a … Read more
Five years of no results in the midst of dumping businesses
