The Union Project in Oakland California is nearing completion. Holliday Development and Factory OS were able to stack the five floors on site in 10 days. The components of the building were built in a factory a few miles away in Vallejo before being trucked to the site. Autodesk has been hell-bent on its plan to build out its … Read more
Early this week I was asked what I thought about Nvidia buying Arm, it seems an almost foregone conclusion by the web that it would since Bloomberg and the Financial Times presumably independently confirmed the courtship. In an earlier editorial, I responded to the question with I think it's a brilliant move if it can pass all the government agencies … Read more
AMD’s first quarter was up from Q1 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments and up 349% year-to-year. “We delivered strong second-quarter results, led by record notebook and server processor sales as Ryzen and … Read more
Peggy Johnson takes the controls of Magic Leap. (Source: Peggy Johnson’s Twitter profile) Magic Leap is a company that stirs passion—good and bad. The company was among the many companies that appeared over the last decade with the promise of enabling AR using lightfield technology. The company was a high-flyer with attitude attracting billions in investment, and spending millions … Read more
One rumor, one report, three results The story put out by Bloomberg was that Nvidia may be bidding to buy some or all of Arm from Softbank. That is such a delicious rumor-speculation I just can’t ignore it. If Nvidia agreed to Softbank’s inflated price—Arm couldn’t have possibly increased in value so much from the time Softbank bought it—it would … Read more
The new normal is not normal, and may not be again for a long time. Q2 which has traditionally been a down quarter was up for Intel year-to-year, and flat quarter-to-quarter. But Q3 is being guided down, and Intel still is dealing with manufacturing issues—the new normal. By midday the day after Intel’s report, AMD soared over 15% while Intel … Read more
Augmented Reality Where We All Will Live Founded in 2016 in San Mateo, CA by Dr. Kevin Zhong, DreamWorld has developed an AR viewing headset that can offer the user a virtual 4K display. Wearing the headset, one could watch a movie in an airplane or in their living room—provided you weren’t bothered by the see-through aspect of the … Read more
Source: Allie@acreativegangster Working at home is going to be the way business operate now that we know how to do it and the massive benefits of doing it. This week, we published a short news story about Jeff Clarke’s interview on CNN's story and his Blog on Dell’s site in which he talked about the benefits of having more people work at … Read more
The FMX conference continues this year as a digital production and is combining its greatest hits with new content. Coming up, FMX will feature “A Phantasmagorical Journey with Phil Tippett,” Monday, July 20, 8 PM CET/11 AM PST on www.fmx.de. One of our huge regrets around FMX was missing Phil Tippett’s talk at FMX in 2018 and the debut of his … Read more
The seasonal pattern of PC shipments used to be flat to down in Q1, way down in Q2 as OEMs and the channel stopped buying stuff and cleaned out old inventory, then up in Q3 as they stocked up for the back-to-school and holiday season, and then up to flat in Q4—used to be. But then we had a grand … Read more
I remember back oh those many years ago when the sky was peaceful and calm before the dragons came. We thought we were done with them, that they had all been put in the dungeons. But then in 2007 Snappy was born in San Diego—dragons like warm climates. Treating the adorable little creature like a lab rat they gave him a … Read more
There is nothing but good news on the AR front as the duel mobile platform giants Google and Apple improve their mobile AR SDKs. Apple went big with the introduction of ARKit 4 through its online WWDC 2020 conference this year. Of the two, Apple is also the most hardware dependent, which is as to be expected. This year WWDC … Read more
