The Lenovo workstation group has shown a real knack for adding edge to their products. The Lenovo ThinkPad P52 line has already carved out a niche for a small, light, powerful workstation. The base model, starts at $1010.65 (Why 65 cents?) and is 4.39 lbs. and 0.79-inch thick. The more you can see, the more you can do: The latest … Read more
Basemark just released its Basemark GPU, a new graphics performance evaluation tool for systems with Vulkan 1.0, OpenGL 4.5, or OpenGL ES 3.1 graphics APIs. This tool, says the company, enables the industry to objectively and reliably quantify and compare graphics performance of next-generation mobile, automotive, and desktop processors. “We have poured all of our soul and expertise in making … Read more
PTC’s LiveWorx conference is all about the Internet of Things and AR. It has grown out of the PTC acquisition of ThingWorx and the subsequent remaking of the company to put it in the middle of digital lifecycle of products. In January 2018, PTC and Microsoft announced a strategic alliance around the HoloLens, which would encourage the development of … Read more
For the first time in a decade, AMD’s CPU portfolio is positioned to not only serve one or two segments of the workstation market, but its entire breadth. Based on its Zen CPU architecture the company has rolled out four brands to power virtually any type of workstation model a professional customer may be interested in — from the single … Read more
The PTC conference kicked off this year with a show of strength and confidence. The company announced three major alliances this year and they highlight three different areas of focus for the company. The company is teaming with: Ansys, is known for its simulation technology especially FEA. Ansys has developed technology they call Discovery Live, which enables lightning … Read more
In an unprovoked tweet, in the style of a certain golf playing president who now likes kimchi, senior vice president of the Core and Visual Computing Group, general manager of edge computing solutions and chief architect at Intel Raja M. Koduri set off a meme by tweeting from Intel News, “Intel's first discrete GPU coming in 2020:” Every pundit, blogger, … Read more
This week, following on from its ‘soft launch’ of the PowerVR Series2NX inferencing accelerator architecture late last year, Imagination Technologies has delivered on its promise of real products during 2018 with two IP cores announced. Just as significantly, IMG has confirmed that they have two customers, including one in China. The AX2185 and AX2145 target high- and low-end applications, respectively, … Read more
In 2014, a disruptive approach to HPC enabled IBM to be awarded two contracts to build the next generation of supercomputers as part of the US Department of Energy’s Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore (known as CORAL program). In partnership with Nvidia and Mellanox, IBM demonstrated to CORAL that a data-centric … Read more
Twelve years ago, some game developers at EA DICE not being able to find an engine that would do all things they wanted to, decided they would just have to develop their own engine, they called it Frostbite. Two years later they brought it out inside Battlefield: Bad Company, one of the first and most successful cross platform games ever. … Read more
PLM Connection is a worldwide conference series for customers of Siemens PLM Software run by the PLM World user group. I was at the Americas version in 108F-degree Phoenix, where 2,000 attended; weeks earlier, the event was in Russia (1,000 attendees) and China (5,000). Next year, the conference is changing hands as Siemens takes over, and the user group organization … Read more
The same kind of people who collect vinyl records, postage stamps, old train sets, or automobiles also want the great memories of the past in form of gaming. The open source low cost Arduboy Several companies, mostly startups, have developed clever handheld machines. Most of them have failed like the Reto Computer Limited company discussed elsewhere in this issue. Some … Read more
THX came to NAB 2018 with a big agenda and thanks to investment from Razer, some budget to work with. Razer is a major investor in THX and the company’s CEO Min-Liang Tan is currently the acting CEO of THX Ltd. Razer is investing in THX to rebuild the company’s position in cinema and consumer electronics. At NAB, THX showcased … Read more
