Celebrating the age of Siggraph
While reflecting on its 50-year journey of industry advancements, Siggraph 2023 is asking for submissions to map a future of exponential innovation.
2023: The year of competitive innovation
All the crashes in 2022 put the ball in the customers’ court this year.
Getting into the swing of Spider-Man Remastered on the PC
After spending many hours completing Spider-Man Remastered main story and being unable to tear ourselves away from the screen, editors at BabelTechReviews (BTR) recommend it as a great game with a few flaws. Mark Poppin, Mario Vasquez, and I have collaborated on this review, each of us playing the game for 20 or more hours. We cover the gameplay, updated … Read more
AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 processor
AMD announced the Fusion project in 2006 after the acquisition of ATI: the integrating of a GPU with the CPU. However, Intel beat AMD to it and in January 2011 introduced the Clarkdale with an integrated GPU. AMD came out in June 2011 with the Llano and called it an APU—Accelerated Processing Unit. AMD always had more shader cores than … Read more
Happy birthday, PIXEL
On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL.
Happy birthday PIXEL
Image credit, JVC Creative Commons On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was a landmark publication and firmly … Read more
Tribute: the father of the pixel
Frederic Crockett Billingsley was an American engineer who developed techniques for digital image processing while at JPL working on U.S space probes to the moon, Mars, and other planets.
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.
Intel’s GPU could bruise AMD and Nvidia 5 ways
It’s no longer if, but when Intel will reveal its consumer-class discrete GPU (dGPU) family. And when it does, it will initially have a negative impact on the incumbent PC dGPU suppliers AMD and Nvidia. Later in 2021 or 2022, the company will ship its high-end Ponte Vecchio AIB for the Aurora supercomputer. If everything goes right for Intel and … Read more
A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance
Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with SPEC/GWPG, they take that knowledge and develop benchmarks that test real-world performance in ways that … Read more
The overall CG market grows to $150 billion by 2022
Industry expected to see 2% CAGR for next few years
Think Silicon secures investment round
Funding for tiny IP for tiny devices