Acer unveils CP317; 17-in Chromebook
The Acer Chromebook Spin 713 (CP713-3W) and Acer Chromebook Enterprise Spin 713, the world’s first Intel Evo platform-verified Chromebooks
Nvidia’s Q1 FY22 results
Nvidia, the company that makes the most sought-after GPUs, reported an 84% increase in sales last quarter. The company reported record revenue for the first quarter ended May 2, 2021, of $5.66 billion, up 84 percent from a year earlier and up 13 percent from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s Gaming, Data Center and Professional Visualization … Read more
The new Arm Mali GPUs and Armv9 architecture
Last year, Arm introduced its Cortex-X1, claiming to have kickstarted the evolution of computing performance. Now they’ve followed that up with the firm’s first Total Compute solutions. Arm says it will provide three pillars of its Total Compute strategy – compute performance, developer access, and security. The CPU cores are the Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710, and Cortex-A510, based on Armv9 with SVE2 … Read more
Qualcomm’s NUC-like dev system
Qualcomm gave their first showing of a Chrome-killer thin & light, always-on, always-connected 13-inch notebook at their developer’s conference in 2017. It looked like a winner then. Lenovo, HP, Acer, and others signed up to build it. The idea of being able to get online anytime, anywhere was undoubtedly appealing. A bit problematic about how to deal with the phone … Read more
Tribute: the father of the pixel
Frederic Crockett Billingsley was an American engineer who developed techniques for digital image processing while at JPL working on U.S space probes to the moon, Mars, and other planets.
Dell’s upgrades for workstations promise more connection and collaboration
Reflecting a trend in attitudes and awareness, Dell’s latest PC and workstation updates are directed at creative artists with the same enthusiasm that it traditionally had for designers, engineers, and scientists. This is not exactly new. Dell and HP always battled for the high end of creativity—movie makers, VFX, video production, and audio engineers but the tech industry has come … Read more
Imagination shows the way to ray tracing
A ray traced version of Imagination Technologies’ headquarters building Imagination has had ray tracing capabilities since 2010 when they acquired the boutique ray tracing company Caustic. Caustic had developed a hardware accelerator which Imagination turned into an RTL core and added to their stable of IP accelerators. The company has built out their ray tracing SDK and, in the … Read more
Pico VR snaps up the dragon
Source: Pico Beijing-based Pico Interactive has released its Pico Neo 3 Pioneer Edition VR All-in-One headset with a 256GB SD. The HMD uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 XR2 (the same processor used in the Oculus Quest), and there is optical tracking interpupillary distance adjustment. It offers Wi-Fi 6 streaming VR. The company’s Pico Store has over 400 apps, including … Read more
New notebooks updated with Nvidia’s RTX 3050 ray tracing tech
Got your ray tracing on yet? What are you waiting for, there’s over 140 notebooks to choose from with prices as low as $800. You can get a new notebook with Nvidia’s new RTX3050 that runs Nvidia’s new DLSS 2.0 ray tracing magic. If you’re a gamer, even a casual gamer, you can game in a ray traced environment with one … Read more
Things for your head from HTC
HTC has announced two new VR headsets (HMD): one for gamers and one for business/scientific. HTC showed the HMDs at its May 12–13 inaugural l Vivecon 2021 event. Both units, the Vive Pro 2 (an upgraded version of the Vive Pro launched in 2018) and the Vive Focus 3 have a 5K display resolution (2,448 × 2,448 (6.0MP) per eye) … Read more
Vulkan has a new home—and look
The new site has a whole page dedicated to Vulkan tools and support, giving developers access to SDKs, profilers, debuggers, libraries, language bindings, game engines, and frameworks
Collaborating around the Campfire with augmented reality
One of the first companies to help develop AR was Qualcomm. In 2008, Jay Wright initiated and led a Qualcomm team to create an SDK of AR tools, libraries, and demos. The group’s work got a positive reception demonstrating pent-up demand and interest in AR. They were developing the first tools that became Qualcomm’s Vuforia organization. In Oct 2015, Qualcomm … Read more