Dell’s super XPS 13 gets even better
Better screen, battery-life, and ergonomics
Benchmarking the Radeon Pro W5700
Performance: relative to its predecessor and the most comparable Nvidia offering
Captis debuts at Adobe Max
When it all comes together: HP has been working on the challenge of real-world 3D capture for some time. At Adobe Max, the company was able to show off the process from capture to print. That Dalek sitting next to the Z4 Workstation is HP’s new Captis device. (Source JPR) It's no secret that Adobe is growing its 3D … Read more
Intel’s new 14-nm Xeon W 2200 processors
Intel once envisioned a 2018 where 10-nm processors were shipping out of its fabs, followed by a subsequent introduction of a major new core microarchitecture. However, the company’s well-chronicled delays with 10-nm meant another “optimization” generation extending Skylake one more time on 14++ was in order to fill the gap. For the Core brand processors serving high-performance PC and Entry … Read more
Seems like old times… Rick Bergman returns to AMD
The doors spin round. AMD has announced former Synaptics CEO, and former AMD SVP/GM of the products group, Rick Bergman will return to lead the Computing and Graphics (CG) business segment for AMD. The CG group includes PC, gaming, and semi-custom businesses for AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs, and game console products and platforms. It’s familiar territory for Bergman who … Read more
PC versus workstation: The differences matter
There's a line of reasoning that goes like this: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck. The assumption is that something can be identified by its characteristics and unique behavior. But, as we all know, looks and behavior can be deceiving. Such is the case with a … Read more
Apple launches their most powerful workstation ever
We the committed—wait. Mill around outside 08:30 to 09:00, seated 09:00, show starts at 10:00, ends 12:30—fours of Applesauce Apple’s slick back cylindrical Mac Pro circa 2013. (Source: Apple) Dub dub has never been boring or trite, and this year was no exception, except it was exceptional. Everybody and their cat is writing about all the stuff Apple announced … Read more
Intel Q1 2019 results
Intel reported its calendar Q1 2019, revenues were flat year-over-year and achieved 4% growth in the PC-centric business while data-centric revenue declined 5%. “We shipped a strong mix of high-performance products and continued spending discipline while ramping 10 nm and managing a challenging NAND pricing environment. Looking ahead, we're taking a more cautious view of the year, although we expect … Read more
HP’s new Z workstations targeted at creators
HP is partnering with AVID, RED Digital Cinema, and Nvidia to optimize productivity
HP updates its Z workstations with Cascade Lake
HP came to NAB with good friends Intel to show off their new workstations, which just happened to be perfect for video content creation, VFX, and other memory intensive jobs. The broadcast and content creation industry is now squarely in the middle of working with demanding 4K workflows and negotiating the challenges of creating HDR content and 8K is clearly … Read more
Chaos Group demos Project Lavina; realtime ray tracing
Forest animation rendered in realtime with Chaos’ new Lavina technology. The scene has over 300 billion triangles and 80,000 instances running at 24–30 frames per second with no rasterized graphics or reduced level of detail as might be used for game engine rendering. In this case, the render was performed on Nvidia’s Quadro RTX GPUs. Chaos Group showcased its new … Read more
Making things, seeing things
The many ways content is being created is changing and so are the way we see things. This issue of TechWatch, has some stories that are continuing gifts from Siggraph as well as news that has come out ahead of IBC; and all that is in addition to the random stuff we stumble across — but a whole bunch of … Read more