During their first-quarter financial results announcement, AMD announced astounding results overall, and a big leap for the AMD EESC segment. Out of $3.45 billion total revenue, the company reported $1.35 billion in revenue for the company’s EESC (Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom) segment and says it represents a 286% growth year over year. Pretty impressive no? The company says much of … Read more
Cloud-based production platforms for digital content are slowly making their way into use because it’s an obviously good idea. It’s happening slowly because it’s an obviously tricky thing to do since it requires an openness and willingness to collaborate that’s just a step too far for some vendors. It will happen as the drive for openness continues among the content … Read more
Blender has been right on the verge of its V3 release and guess what happened. It released 2.93, which has been pretty much according to plan. As the company says Blender 2.93 LTS marks the end of a series “twenty years in the making.” It’s a big release but the developers say it’s solid. Therefore, the Blender 2.93 release is … Read more
Nextflow Software, headquartered in Nantes, France, was founded in 2015 as a spinout from HydrOcean when that organization was acquired by Bureau Veritas (BV) to form their Marine & Offshore Solutions Group. The technology was originally developed at the Ecole Centrale Nantes (ECN) and the Bureau Veritas group continues to support research at ECN. Siemens notes that ECN and the … Read more
Autodesk has been concentrating on bringing its user base into compliance and building new business via the transition to digitalization. The company’s revenues increased 12% year-over-year to $989 million. CEO Andrew Anagnost credited the company’s “resilient subscription business model.” Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost says the company’s efforts to convert noncompliant users into paying customers resulted in Q1 license compliance billings … Read more
Katerra spent big to realize its vision of a vertically integrated design construction powerhouse. Unfortunately, it wasn’t able to see it through. (Source: Katerra) Katerra, founded in 2015 by former Flextronics CEO Michael Marks and Fritz Wolff of the Wolff Co. in Menlo Park, recently notified its employees that it did not have sufficient funds for payroll. News site … Read more
Siemens’ annual conference, Realize Live, served this year to enable Siemens Industrial Executives to communicate with users on a broad range of fronts. Siemens Industry Solutions CEO Tony Hemmelgarn talked about Siemens's role in an industrial world that’s about systems, not applications. Today, systems are fed by digitization, which may have been accelerated by the pandemic, but Hemmelgarn says most … Read more
Bentley Systems announced its revenue for its first quarter of 2021 which ended on March 31. In his opening remarks during his call to investors, CEO Greg Bentley warned them not to make generalizations about Bentley’s seasonality with such a small amount of data, especially when some of that data has been affected by very unusual circumstances. As Bentley’s competitors … Read more
The arrival of the Cesium for Unreal plug-in is fairly recent. It was announced last March and became officially available in April 2021, but the ability to work with large geospatial models in the Unreal game engine is a snowball rolling downhill. The alliance between Cesium and Unreal means that the Unreal Engine supports the open format 3D Tiles pioneered by … Read more
In its first implementations, Omniverse is most useful for enabling designers to create renderings of their work. (Source: Nvidia’s Graphisoft Connector Site) The future is in the ‘verse and Graphisoft has opened its own door into it. Nvidia and Graphisoft have announced the availability of a connector for Archicad 24 to Nvidia’s Omniverse. Omniverse is a 3D development tool now in … Read more
Tinkercad was born of a desire to extend 3D CAD and along the way 3D printing to the world. Original founders Kai Backman and Mikko Mononen were determined to break the logjam that has grown along with interest in 3D design. They could see that there was huge interest in 3D design to enable 3D printing, create rendered visualizations, and … Read more
Trimble reported their first-quarter results this week and said they’re pleased with the results and looking forward to new growth. Compared to its peers in the market, Trimble has been a little late in the process of moving to subscriptions, and that really hasn’t been a bad idea since they’ve seen the consequent hit to their revenues coincide with the … Read more
