Back 4 Blood—a shooter’s shooter
Non-stop team play dash through zombie land
New SPUD to Splay lets you play
Alex Wesley with collapsible projection screens (Source Next Corps Illuminate) Alexander (Alex) Wesley founded Arovia with George Zhu, CTO, and Justin Mintzer, CMO, in Houston, Texas, in April 2015. Wesley started Arovia after leaving optical metrology developer, Zygo in Connecticut in 2014. In between, he developed the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD). The idea for SPUD came from years of … Read more
Germ-free ultrathin notebook from Acer
Acer America announced the Aspire Vero notebook. The company says it is their first sustainability-focused product. It is one of Acer’s first products powered by Windows 11, is eco-friendly, EPEAT Silver-certified, which features post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic throughout the chassis and keyboard with 100% recyclable packaging. It also has antimicrobial Corning gorilla glass, an alkali-aluminosilicate thin sheet glass formulated with … Read more
Qualcomm and others exploit Wi-Fi gaming
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect systems, which enable Wi-Fi Dual Station. Wi-Fi Dual Station using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual Band Simultaneous is a Windows 11 feature that allows multiple Wi-Fi bands … Read more
IEEE—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers had a day
IEEE Day was established to celebrate the first worldwide gathering of engineers who came together to share their technical ideas in 1884. Their stated hope was to “collaborate on ideas that leverage technology for a better tomorrow.”
IEEE—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers had a day
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering that was formed in January 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers. IEEE Day was established to celebrate the first worldwide gathering of engineers who came together to share their technical ideas in … Read more
Electronic Arts joins Nvidia’s game service
Electronic Arts have joined GeForce Now and will allow some of their most beloved franchises to be acquired by the growing global audience instantly.
MetaX to build GPUs, ASICs, and FPGAs
In September 2020, Chen Weiliang started MetaX (Mu Xi) Integrated Circuit Co. in the Pudong Lingang Special Area of Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone. At their founding, Weiliang said the company would develop artificial intelligence processors consisting of ASICs, FPGAs, and GPUs. Weiliang, with a Master’s degree from the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University, had been a senior GPU researcher … Read more
Happy birthday, PIXEL
On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL.
Happy birthday PIXEL
Image credit, JVC Creative Commons On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was a landmark publication and firmly … Read more
Jingjia Micro JM9000 series GPUs
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Jingjiawei, a Chinese GPU chip company (also known as Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co.—Jingjia Micro), announced in mid-September 2021 that its new-generation GPU had completed tape out and packaging phases. The product has not completed the test work yet and is not yet in production or available. Information about the company’s pursuit of developing a GPU was … Read more
HP makes working at home comfortable
HP introduces multiple products including displays, tablets, and a Qualcomm based laptop