AMD’s Radeon 6700 XT is surprising
17 billion transistors and AMD’s new Ray Accelerator Technology
AMD’s Zen 3, the sound of 64 cores clapping
AMD has generously and broadly used the designation Zen to describe various CPUs in their product line. The company’s latest offering in their server derby race is its 7nm Milan, the successor to the Rome processor. AMD says its Zen 3 architecture is 19% faster than Zen 2. Via a very slick virtual presentation, AMD executives showed the new AMD … Read more
AMD’s Radeon 6700 XT is surprising
AMD is putting out some very impressive gaming AIBs that may be overlooked by gamers in general. These boards are giving mainstream gamers impressive performance at the midrange price point. AMD’s reference design Radeon 6700 XT AIB The Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the latest graphical software suites such as DirectX 12 Ultimate and AMD’s FidelityFX5 feature set. Fidelity FX5, … Read more
Supply shortages and mining batter the AIB market
Quarter-to-quarter graphics add-in board shipments decreased by -3.9% and decreased -6.5% year-to-year
GPU shipments soar once more in Q4
The PC GPU market shipments increased by 20.5% sequentially from last quarter and increased by 29.1% year-to-year
EVGA RTX 3060 XC
Nvidia has added to their product line with a new GPU and made it available to their AIB partners. We received an EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 for review and found that it brings solid performance and many new features to the mid-range segment. The AIB is marketed as providing players with 1080p and 1440p gaming with features including Nvidia’s RTX ray tracing … Read more
EVGA RTX 3060 XC
A Low mid-range AIB for economy gaming and it’s available… so far
Docomo and Arcturus team up to bring volumetric video to 5G mobile customers in Japan
Last week, Japan telecom giant, NTT Docomo, held its annual open house to introduce its current & future technology and activities. In conjunction with this event, Docomo, and USA/Canadian startup, Arcturus Studio, announced their working collaboration to stream high-quality volumetric videos of any length directly to Docomo 5G mobile network customers. Volumetric videos are characterized large and complex files that … Read more
Lidar for everyone
Didn’t it seem like we’d all be measuring playing fields, creating 3D objects, and making virtual 3D playgrounds out of our living rooms by now? Phones have 3D sensors, and now Apple has added Lidar, so why can’t we have these things? It’s here now and looks like a trend that will be happening in 2021. TikTok symbolically kicked it … Read more
Introduction to TIFCA and Project CORA
This opening hour of The International Future Computing Summit features:
1. Dr. Jon Peddie, CEO of Jon Peddie Research, outlining what the next era of computing could look like.
SIGGRAPH Pioneers: Ed Kramer interviews Jon Peddie, CGI Industry Guru
Ed speaks with Jon about his company, his personal history, his relationship with SIGGRAPH, his books, and his visions about the future of Augmented Reality and other imaging technologies. Jon Peddie has been a guiding force in the CGI industry for decades.
VFX in 2021: What Works, Who Works & What’s Changing Forever
Presented live on Wednesday 12/2/20, with an introduction by Dr. Jon Peddie of JPR, moderated by Editor-in-Chief of JPR’s Tech Watch Report Kathleen Maher. Event panelists include Angus Kneale Chief Creative, Preymaker; Director of Product/New Technology at Foundry Matt Mazerolle; Framestore Creative Director and VFX Supervisor, James Rogers. and VFX Supervisor at Weta Digital, Eric Winquist.