In the mid-1990s, two major developments were taking place. One was the explosion of 3D graphics chip companies, and the other was the emergence of virtual reality from the labs to industry. In 1990, twenty companies were making or had declared they would make a 3D graphics chip. By 1996, the number of suppliers exploded to 70. And by 2000, … Read more
Augmented reality can be found in five and, maybe one day, six highly different platforms and configurations. Vehicle head-up displays (HUD) are one of them. HUDs are used in airplanes, boats, trucks, and cars. HUDs are offered as optional or standard built-in equipment in new cars and trucks and as a retrofit device for older or less expensive cars and … Read more
The PC GPU market is tremendously influential as the power of GPUs have helped create a vibrant gaming industry that has continued to expand since the arrival of GPUs in the 90s. Gaming gets the headlines, but 3D professional applications including CAD design rendering, analysis, VFX work, video rendering all benefit from the GPU’s ability to do massive parallel processing … Read more
We test and have tested a lot of graphics AIBs and PCs over the past 30+ years, and we have used synthetic benchmark and application-based benchmarks—we even used to have our own Windows-based benchmark test suite (we called WITS). There are plenty of dedicated benchmark programs available, and even more in-game or application benchmarks. No single one is better than … Read more
Artist Graphics founded 1979 by Horace and Robert Beale, in Minneapolis released their first add-in board, the Artist 1 in November of 1982, based on an NEC 7220 and sporting a gigantic 1024 × 768 resolution. The traditional semiconductor suppliers like Hitachi, NEC, and Texas Instruments were not keeping up with the demands of the graphics industry, and the graphics … Read more
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Industry expected to see 2% CAGR for next few years
Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion come together to push spatial interaction technology. (Source: Ultrahaptics) Did it seem Leap Motion got awfully quiet? Well, it did, the company had seen its valuation drop and was clearly running out of money because the London-based Ultrahaptics announced plans to buy Leap Motion for $30 million, a comedown from higher ranges the company had … Read more
“Thrive” is the theme of 46th Siggraph conference that will be taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA from of 28 July to 1 August 2019. The theme of the conference can be related to the increasing interest of women in the field of computer science, web development, and other technology-related careers. Previous Siggraph conferences … Read more
For all you people planning to give semiconductors as presents, AMD’s latest APUs arrived just in time for the holiday. AMD says its new Athlon 220GE and 240GE processors with 4 processing threads and Radeon Vega Graphics represent the most advanced entry-level processors AMD has ever created. The new processors enable 720p esports gaming out-of-the-box and with the Zen processor … Read more
Industry increased to 2% CAGR growth for next few years
This is the first in a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. In buzzword talk, they were disruptive devices, and in addition to changing how things were done, the application of those chips made a lot of companies successful. Ironically, all of them are gone now. … Read more
