Since the start of the year, Jon Peddie Research has been conducting a series of interviews with leading CAE software vendors such as Altair, Ansys, Dassault Systèmes, Hexagon, and Siemens Digital Industries Software. We’ve been working with Nvidia to understand how the industry is changing in response to GPU acceleration now available in many CAE applications and workflows. The results … Read more
We may think of Siggraph as a showcase for splashy movie effects, showy content creation apps, video software, and video graphics pioneers—and it is—but off in the side rooms, over drinks and again with coffee, Siggraph is where progress is made. One example is the USD story; originally, Pixar’s common format to enable content exchange, Universal Scene Description, was opened … Read more
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) today announced the appointment of industry veteran Omid Rahmat as executive vice president. Rahmat is a senior executive with broad experience in starting and managing hardware and software companies in the areas of computer graphics, digital media, and mobile. He has worked with major semiconductor companies, traditional software vendors, SaaS developers, and world-leading media conglomerates. Omid … Read more
In 2022 Twinmotion gets high-res rendering new content and more. (Source: Twinmotion) It’s been a while since we’ve reported on Twinmotion, and as a result, there’s plenty to talk about. In the give-it-to-me-now world, we live in, it may have seemed as if Epic was moving slowly in the process of integrating Twinmotion since it was acquired in 2019. … Read more
At Siemens’ recent Media and Analyst Conference held in Detroit in early April, President and CEO, Digital Industries Software Tony Hemmelgarn said their rollout of Xcelerator as a Service is gaining momentum and broadening its reach. Siemens’ Xcelerator is the company’s brand for its portfolio of products, tools, and services that can be combined by customers to create customized processes. … Read more
(Source: Siemens) Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is a powerful tool for design and is used extensively for automotive, aeronautic, and marine design where air and water flows are vital to the performance of cars, planes, and boats. It has much broader applications as well. CFD comes in handy in content creation for simulating fire, smoke, lava flows, and … Read more
Avid has announced that it has decided to pause its participation in tradeshows throughout 2022. The company says it doesn’t plan to participate in the conferences organized by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), or National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM).
The general thinking in the US is that as Omicron loosens its grip, the pandemic will also recede to become something a recurring seasonal illness like the flu and colds—annoying but not deadly. Eventually, that probably is what happens but in the meantime, companies are rethinking their marketing strategies. 2019 was more important than we realized. NAB, IBC, CES, and … Read more
Once upon a time, the way the world worked in manufacture seemed pretty clear: the big engines of China and nearby smaller countries pumped out low-cost products. Consumers in the west bought whole bunches of the low-cost products and then sent them back to Asia to recycle. It was efficient, if not particularly equitable, or sustainable. Meanwhile, software vendors in … Read more
As this is being written, Dassault is spelling out its plans for the future during 3DExperience World 2022. The company says it is poised for a new period of growth as it aligns its major product lines including Industrial Innovation (such as Catia and Enovia), Mainstream Innovation (Solidworks and Centric), and Life Sciences (Medidata and Biovia). Dassault has had its … Read more
PTC reported its first-quarter financial results for its fiscal 2022 and told investors all is going according to plan. At the end of 2021, PTC told investors it was putting its foot down on the accelerator to speed up its transition to the cloud. To do so, PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann told listeners on its Q4’21 investor call that the … Read more
AMD is all about the sweet spot, and the company’s latest entries into the workstation market are aimed at a good-sized market: mainstream CAD. As promised in an enigmatic Twitter promo, AMD has rolled out new boards in its Radeon Pro W6000 workstation series targeting CAD designers, engineers, and creatives. The new products include the new Radeon Pro W6400 graphics … Read more
