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Jon Peddie Research releases its Q4, 2018 add-in board report

Due to the collapse of Crypto-mining Q4 2018 goes down as worst fourth quarter for add-in boards in over 10 years

Jon Peddie Research’s Market Watch reports GPU shipments down in Q4’18 from last quarter

The PC GPU market decreased year-to-year by (3.3)%, sequentially GPU shipments decreased (2.6)%

JPR Releases Report on WW Ray Tracing Market

Ray Tracing is invaluable to modeling products – will dominate rendering market by 2023

Ray tracing today

I first learned about ray tracing from Turner Whitted in 1980 and have been fascinated by and about it ever since. About eight years later I was working with a company called Meiko which was ...

Old companies performing like new companies — how curious

  After reading and reporting on the financial results of AMD and Intel, and reading Nvidia’s cautionary letter to its shareholders, I have been struck by the resiliency and dynamism of these companies. AMD and ...

Adobe acquires Allegorithmic

Allegorithmic, one of the most interesting companies in the graphics business, today has been acquired by Adobe. As a small company, Allegorithmic's revenues represent a drop in the bucket to Adobe, so there’s no financial information provided. ...

The Foundry introduces Flix 6.0

The Foundry is making collaboration an important feature in their portfolio of projects. The company’s pre-production tool Flix is an early example of how the company enables people to work together on a project. At ...

Dell goes public again…

Dell emerges with an end to end story, unlike its competitors

This moment in history—5G goes live

  After years of testing, and trials in various cities around the world, the U.S., the U.K., and other counties are rolling out 5G. AT&T, Verizon, and BT announced at Qualcomm’s Tech Forum currently going ...

The workstation market in Q3’18: Economic conditions and demand drive the market to record levels

Vendors are justifiably more confident to hang their hats on the workstation market than most other PC-related markets. And for good reason, the workstation does not suffer (at least not to a substantial degree) from ...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform is the first commercial mobile platform supporting multi-gigabit 5G, capable of AI and XR. Using 7-nm process technology, the Snapdragon 855, says the company, will offer users long-lasting battery ...

Apple gradually wins back professionals with Final Cut Pro X

Apple has never worried its very pretty head about stuff like backward compatibility. The company has abandoned software, eliminated headphone ports, changed charging ports multiple times, disappeared drives, and tells users to keep up with ...