Siggraph kicks off with an enormous and creative schedule
Who wouldn’t love happy hour in an alien watering hole?
AMD updates Radeon Pro software for enterprise
The new Radeon Pro Enterprise Drivers are designed to make the Radeon Pro W5700 look its best, at least until a new round of drivers come around. AMD says the new drivers are enabling a 15% increase in geomean SPECviewperf 13 benchmark Viewsets compared to the previous 19.Q3 driver. And the company claims its new power management features offer … Read more
Apple updates 27-inch iMac, giving Apple heads a new dilemma
The big news for Apple came as it always did in June with the company’s big WWDC. This year’s event was no less explosive for being held as a virtual event. Instead, Tim Cook marched out and scrambled the game board with the announcement of new all-Apple strategy for new Mac computers coming at the end of the year. As … Read more
After a rough second quarter, Trimble looks ahead to a happier 2021
Trimble came out of 2019 with record results and it made it through the first quarter reasonably well. Meanwhile, Rob Painter took over as CEO in January and articulated a Connect and Scale 2025 strategy that would take the company to subscriptions and cloud-based services where it made sense and on to a stable growth trajectory. Then came Q2 and … Read more
PTC’s strategy holds up for Q3 2020
There is no doubt some industry people sighed in relief when PTC's third-quarter financial results came in above guidance. In design and engineering, people are looking at this quarter as an indicator of what the year might look like. PTC's results look good in spite of this year’s extreme challenges. The companies in design and engineering have performed reasonably well through the … Read more
Architects demand more from Revit and from Autodesk
Source: energepic.com The open letter to Autodesk landed on the desks of editors, analysts, and interested observers with a thud—if a digital letter could land on a digital desk at all. The letter, signed by major architectural firms, complained about the state of Autodesk’s Revit development and was evidence of fraying relationships within the Autodesk community. Basically, the complaints … Read more
Autodesk further expands its construction portfolio
The Union Project in Oakland California is nearing completion. Holliday Development and Factory OS were able to stack the five floors on site in 10 days. The components of the building were built in a factory a few miles away in Vallejo before being trucked to the site. Autodesk has been hell-bent on its plan to build out its … Read more
Dassault Systèmes has very good second quarter
Dassault’s diversity continues to serve the company well. Like all companies, Dassault is seeing some of its segments suffer as the Coronavirus shuts down businesses and production. The company’s traditional business in PLM is hitting rough road, but the company has moved well beyond its traditional business with significant investments in simulation, data management, supply chain management, and most significantly, … Read more
Microsoft’s Peggy Johnson joins Magic Leap
Johnson replaces embattled founder Rony Abovitz as CEO
Microsoft’s Peggy Johnson joins Magic Leap as CEO
Peggy Johnson takes the controls of Magic Leap. (Source: Peggy Johnson’s Twitter profile) Magic Leap is a company that stirs passion—good and bad. The company was among the many companies that appeared over the last decade with the promise of enabling AR using lightfield technology. The company was a high-flyer with attitude attracting billions in investment, and spending millions … Read more
Latest round of Epic MegaGrants reward imagination and real-world connection
The latest batch of winners in Epic’s ongoing MegaGrants program includes games, a couple of which break the mold but most intriguingly technology companies that are pushing on the walls of game engine technology to expand where games and game engines haven’t gone before and that of course is one of the major reasons there is an Epic MegaGrant. In … Read more
Foundry rolls out Nuke 12.2 update
With Nuke 12.2 Foundry is adding support of USD. Users can bring in geometry from USD using the ReadGeo node. This is just the start says the company, it will be expanding USD support overcoming releases. (Source: Foundry) Foundry has been tinkering with its lineup of tools for special effects artists, adding on and building out, but always focusing … Read more