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Blending into the Omniverse, Nvidia signs up new partners

What is the metaverse. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia announced a significant expansion of its Omniverse simulation and collaboration platform—through new integrations with Blender and Adobe. Omniverse is now available to potentially millions of more users. The world’s leading open-source 3D animation tool, Blender, will now have Universal Scene Description (USD) support, enabling artists to access Omniverse production pipelines. Adobe collaborates … Read more

AMD’s RDNA 2.0 add-in board delivers performance in the mid-range

The RX 6600 XT stacks up to its predecessors while being power conscious

GEE F decides to be GF

Globalfoundries agrees to what the world said

The case for desktop workstations

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) recently reported that the overall workstation market volume in Q1’21 grew about 27.7% YoY, a milestone for workstation sales. The strong rebound in workstation shipments was no surprise, as positive signs regarding the pandemic by mid-quarter (in the US and EMEA particularly), along with successful deployment of vaccines (though geographically varying) clearly improved purchasing outlooks among … Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang receives Lifetime Achievement Award by Asian American Engineer of the year

for contributing as a visionary and innovator in parallel computing technology that accelerates the realization of AI computing

Smoke, mirrors, DLSS on Arm—is that even possible?

Few people love ray racing more than me. And now Nvidia has made it possible to see ray tracing in a fast action FPS on a low-power notebook, proving it isn’t the CPU that makes it work. At GDC, Nvidia showed Wolfenstein: Youngblood running with ray-traced reflections enabled and DLSS in operation on an eight-core MediaTek CPU and an Nvidia … Read more

AMD’s FidelityFX super resolution

AMD has added hardware acceleration and scaling to their GPUs and AIBs to enhance and speedup gaming and make it a realtime operation. The company has offered the enhancement to developers in an open-source manner via its OpenGPU program. That will make it useful for any GPU, of almost any vintage. AMD has branded it FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR). Raster-scan … Read more

Graphics workstation set volume record in Q1’21

The year-to-year growth of 28% on the back of strong global rebound

Crypto-mining’s half a billion dollar impact on AIB sales

Bots, scalpers, miners, and speculators drain the AIB supply and inflate prices

Crypto-mining’s half a billion dollar impact on AIB sales

Source: Stefen Chow IEEE Spectrum Anyone interested in graphics add-in boards (AIBs) knows the supply has gone to zero and the prices have hit the stratosphere. But why? There are several possibilities, but most of the blame is being laid at the door of the crypto miners, particularly the Ethereum miners. Why? Because the Ethereum algorithm for hash monitoring takes … Read more

Imagination shows the way to ray tracing

A ray traced version of Imagination Technologies’ headquarters building Imagination has had ray tracing capabilities since 2010 when they acquired the boutique ray tracing company Caustic. Caustic had developed a hardware accelerator which Imagination turned into an RTL core and added to their stable of IP accelerators. The company has built out their ray tracing SDK and, in the … Read more

New notebooks updated with Nvidia’s RTX 3050 ray tracing tech

Got your ray tracing on yet? What are you waiting for, there’s over 140 notebooks to choose from with prices as low as $800. You can get a new notebook with Nvidia’s new RTX3050 that runs Nvidia’s new DLSS 2.0 ray tracing magic. If you’re a gamer, even a casual gamer, you can game in a ray traced environment with one … Read more