Adobe’s latest release adds new features for Audition and Premiere Pro along with the usual enhancements for performance and improved collaboration. These are cross-platform improvements. Adobe has been phasing in support for Apple’s M1 machines so we’re also seeing more of these. Adobe now says Premiere Pro, Audition, and Premiere Rush have full native support for M1. The company says … Read more
HP’s new AiO is skinny and makes you look good. (Source: HP) The spring refresh continues as PC companies show new designs with an awareness of the changing boundaries between work and life and IT. The most recent addition to the lineup is HP’s new EliteOne 800 All-in-One (AiO). This one is designed for home or office, but its … Read more
Apple reported its best March quarter ever, which is to say March is not usually a great quarter for Apple. The company does its best during the holiday season by a long way. That pattern isn't changing, but the March quarter, which is Apple's second quarter in the fiscal year, is up 54% year over year with revenues of $89.6 … Read more
Dassault Systèmes has reported its first quarter of 2021 and, said they’ve exceeded its guidance and are looking forward to the future. During the quarter, the company made gains on their goals for 2025, as laid out at their Capital Market Day last November 2020. Dassault CEO Bernard Charlès described the company’s first-quarter as “a very solid start on 2021.” … Read more
Trimble has once again rejiggered its SketchUp lineup and is creating a powerful design and visualization tool in SketchUp Studio, its top-of-the line option. The big news for SketchUp Studio is the integration of Chaos rendering from V-Ray and also support for point cloud data. However, with the update comes a limitation. SketchUp Studio is now a Windows-only product. … Read more
Nemetschek closed out its fiscal year at the end of March, meeting its targets after raising them before the year’s end, and predicts at least high single-digit growth with EBITA margin between 27% and 29%. Nemetschek reported revenues of EUR 596.9 million for 2020, a 7% increase over the year before. It’s modest, but Nemetschek’s parts are often much stronger … Read more
Unity to add support for DLSS
Since its arrival in 2012, Onshape has been revolutionary in its commitment to pure SaaS for design. The company also demonstrated a willingness to innovate on the fly. Recognizing the challenge of bringing a new design tool into a very mature market, Onshape concentrated on getting a usable base product out into the market right away and rapidly added features. … Read more
Shapr3D is a capable 3D modeler for engineers, designers, and hobbyists. The company has debuted its news version for the M1 Macs. (Source: Shapr3D) Shapr3D started out as a mobile-first product for CAD design and, inevitably enough, it is moving up to M1 powered Macs. Winner of the Apple Design Award, Shapr3D has been featured in Apple’s recent keynotes … Read more
Apparently, Autodesk’s developers have not been waiting out the pandemic. In response to user requests and experiences during the pandemic, Autodesk has taken advantage of emerging technologies to add more than 40 improvements to Flame 2022. The company has taken advantage of Machine Learning (ML) to make significant improvements to Flame’s camera tracking capabilities, finishing, and color grading. In fact, … Read more
As a rule, game technology doesn’t get much play at GTC, Nvidia’s technology conference. The company gets enough of that all year round. After this year, we don’t think there’ll be much confusion about what kind of company Nvidia is. It’s a technology company with interests in almost every compute platform: edge, mobile, consoles, PCs, workstations, HPC, the data center, … Read more
Workstations have proved their mettle during the pandemic—sometimes by their absence. People, who have had to relinquish their powerful computers to work on home computers, have found out how much the workstation’s power, processing, and fast access to data means to them. Others have found it’s well worth the inconvenience to take the office machine home if that’s part of … Read more
