Lenovo’s message is not much different from its competitors. They’re listening to what their customers want and they’re promising to innovate. And, like their competitors they’re doing a darned fine job of doing those things too. In a nutshell, Lenovo is going all in on USB C, the latest spin on Thunderbolt that brings all the ports together; it is improving … Read more
Bentley Systems is flying high with ContextCapture, its product developed from technology brought in with the acquisition of photogrammetry experts Acute3D in 2015. Most recently Bentley’s Acute3D group announced an alliance with company DJI, a leading Drone manufacturer (according to a Fortune article) headquartered in Guangdong, China. Bentley Systems highlighted Context- Capture at the company’s annual Year in Infrastructure conference … Read more
OEMs giving customers good reasons to upgrade Over the last three years, the PC industry slammed into maturity. Gone were the dependable rising sales cycles based on nothing much more than replacing the semiconductors, updating the architecture, and rolling out a new OS. Finally customers said, no, really, good enough is good enough. Probably, the people who make and sell … Read more
AI provdes the vehicle for GPUs everywhere AI continues to be the major focus for Nvidia today. They’re not alone. At CES, Jen Hsun Huang outlined how AI has already come to be an important part of everyday life and that influence will continue as the devices get smarter and more integrated. It’s a huge opportunity for semiconductor makers. For … Read more
If you’ve introduced a new, or even not quite new VR headset, CES was the place to be so you could see the twenty or so competitors you’ll be facing, and the hundred or so mildly interested potential customers. Maybe not a great use of precious start-up dollars. On the other hand, fools rush in where wise men fear to … Read more
Razer is the extremist of the gaming hardware companies, and that’s saying something. This year the company won awards for two prototypes, Project Ariana and Project Valerie. Project Ariana is a projector that fills the gamer’s room with a widescreen projection to augment the PC gaming experience. Razer’s project Chroma is a further complement to building ambiance as colored keyboard … Read more
For the personal CAVE experience Dassault Systemès is at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, demonstrating how its “3DEsperience” approach to engineering can take advantage of the new generation of business oriented headmounted display (HMD) virtual reality devices. Dassault says headsets such as the HTC Vive will soon be able to replace room-sized immersive 3D displays — such as … Read more
