Back in 2015 when the crypto-mining boom was taking off, one of the problems miners had was getting enough AIBs into a compact package. A few Taiwanese and Chinese companies built specific cases, and many miners built their own. In late 2018, Azultec was formed by people from Alphacool, a water-cooling manufacturer, and Aquatuning, and announced the Cube 300, a … Read more
When Quake, a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive came out in 1996, it was a breakthrough, transformative, disruptive milestone in PC gaming and has been a legend and foundational example ever since. Quake II release one year later had improved graphics and game mechanics and was an all-time hit—21 years ago. Run, … Read more
Autodesk has released Maya 2019, Maya LT 2019, MotionBuilder 2019, and Mudbox 2019. The company says it has concentrated primarily on bug fixes and stability. The natives have been mighty restless waiting for this release. In fact, Maya 2019 is so late that the actual year is the same as the version name. Wes Adams, Industry Marketing Manager, Film & … Read more
Jensen Huang's press conference presentations are always predictable yet surprising. Predictable because you know he’s going to be wearing one of his 270 black leather jackets (and rumors that he sleeps in them is not completely true—only on airplanes), and predictable because he’s going to be excited about what he has to say. Surprising because you never really know what the … Read more
The software market is vibrant, growing, and changing. As always hardware is an engine for accelerating the capabilities of software, but technology advances and new ideas about digitalization are providing new opportunities for software. Huge opportunities. One of the most notable examples in engineering and design is the drive to link software information to real-world processes. In the digital content … Read more
The path of Blender as a company and an organization has never been straight. As it has gained new supporters and users the Blender’s features have multiplied along with new add-ons. As the Blender community celebrates its 25th anniversary, Blender shows signs of growing up. As Blender celebrates its 25th anniversary, it’s worth asking: how long does it take to … Read more
“Audi thrives to bring the most exciting, yet the safest automobiles when we vision the drive of tomorrow,” said Alfons Pfaller, head of Architecture & Platform Development E/E at Audi. “Samsung has been a valued technology partner over the past few years and we are extremely pleased to have the Exynos Auto V9 power our next-generation platform that will shape … Read more
As 2018 drew to a close Arm livened up everyone’s holiday mood by making a pair of linked announcements that signaled a determined push to make inroads into the cash-rich automotive market. On the product front, VP of Automotive, Lakshmi Mandyam gave what amounts to a pre-launch announcement of Arm’s new Cortex A65AE (for automotive enhanced) CPU. Previously known by … Read more
Parallels’ best-known product Parallels Desktop, which enables Windows products to run on the Mac. (Source: Parallels) Just before Christmas 2018, Corel Corporation had announced plans to acquire Parallels, creating a surprise package for many industry observers. The tech commenting community seems to fall into two categories: those people familiar with Coreland those familiar with Parallel because many of the comments were … Read more
MediaTek used to be a loyal customer of Imagination Technologies, especially when it tried to enter the high-end smartphone market. But ARM’s arm-twisting and free GPU was competition no company could stand up to all things being equal. And in the mid and low-end not so smartphone market, Imagination didn’t stand a chance against ARM, and MediaTek had a business … Read more
The Foundry has released its latest update, Nuke 11.3, the fourth installment of the Nuke 11 series. With this release, the Foundry places an emphasis on collaboration with improvements for Live Groups, improved particle system performance, multi-file stereo Nuke Studio and Hiero, and UI and performance improvements. The latest improvements also enhance the use of the Nuke tools for … Read more
I just downloaded a trial version of CyberLink’s PhotoDirector 10 on my Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1 to see if I could do anything with the hoard of 3–5 MB photos I’ve taken with my smartphone during our visit to Egypt. My Samsung Galaxy S7 edge has a 12 megapixel camera with amazing low-light, HDR, and autofocus capabilities that make a … Read more
