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Siemens to acquire LMS International

Siemens’s acquisition of LMS International demonstrates the commitment of the PLM group to integrating tools for design through production. With its own manufacturing as well as design, simulation, and data management Siemens AG has more ...

3D Modeling for the Masses Debuts with Autodesk 123D Design

Autodesk today introduced Autodesk 123D Design, a free 3D modeling tool that allows users to create a digital model and then 3D print or fabricate their idea whether on the iPad, Mac, PC or via ...

Imagination Technologies aquires MIPS

Imagination Technologies is to buy the operating business of MIPS Technologies for $60 million adding 160 engineers and 82 patents to its arsenal in the deal. “The MIPS architecture is widely respected, and is complementary ...

Benchmarking the FirePro W9000

The AMD FirePro W9000, one of the first members in a full family of new professional-caliber graphics cards from AMD, is now available. JPR got a hold of one and ran it through our standard ...

Aesthetica moves perceived quality simulation into concept design

Icona Solutions today releases Aesthetica Version 4, the latest release of its high-end simulation software for perceived quality simulation and visualization for product design. It builds on earlier versions of the software to enable a ...

Most mobile SoCs GPUs shipped by Qualcomm in first half

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Most mobile SoCs GPUs shipped by Qualcomm in first half

Apple holds steady, MediaTek and Samsung highest growth TIBURON, CA, October 25, 2012-Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ ...

Qualcomm ships most System on a Chip GPUs in first half

Qualcomm shipped the most System on a Chip (SoC) GPUs in a fast-growing market during the first half of 2012, according to a new research report from Jon Peddie Research. Shipments from all suppliers were ...

Imagination Technologies still biggest in GPU IP

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Imagination Technologies still biggest in GPU IP, Qualcomm single largest proprietary GPU supplier

Portable devices’ GPU suppliers in a most dynamic market TIBURON, CA, October 19, 2012-Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments for ...

Nvidia announces first virtual workstation GPU

Nvidia announced the launch of its first GPU card designed specifically for use in a virtualized enterprise data center. The VGX K2 offers cloud-based workstation capabilities, allowing high-performance graphics and GPU compute to be delivered ...

Weta Workshop artists give physical reality to digital fantasies

Weta Workshop is the Oscar-winning CG house behind such hits as “The Lord of the Rings”. In the company’s early years almost all physical creative pieces were the result of handcraft, but the company found ...