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HP Inc announces new laptops and solutions

Chrome books have been a small, but steady specialized market, primarily for the educational field. Some saw as a replacement for the 2005 One Laptop per child dream of Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media lab. ...

Maxon has a new plan, actually several of them

The new release of Cinema 4D for subscribers has an updated viewport with new visualization features including colored glass reflections as shown, realistic representations for hair and fur, and improvements to shadows.    Maxon was ...

Epic adds universal scene description and ray tracing

(Source: Epic)   Epic has made some major improvements and upgrades to its popular game engine, Unreal. With the release of Unreal Engine 4.25, Epic has expanded the toolset to include content creation and editing ...

Is ray tracing catching on?

Source: Francis Damm   It was late July 2018, when Nvidia surprised and delighted the world with the introduction of its RTX GPU that could deliver real-time ray tracing, dubbed RTRT. If you build it, ...

It’s Springtime in Ryzen land

(Source: Skitterphoto)   AMD has been fertilizing their seedling cores and watering them every day, and now that the sun is out and the cold of winter tossed off, new cute little Ryzens are popping ...

Famous graphics chips ATI 3D Rage

  ATI, founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., in Thornhill Canada just outside of Toronto, was a pioneer in the graphics chip and add-in board market. It was acquired by AMD in 2006 and ...

VESA DisplayPort Alt

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today announced that it has released version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode (“Alt Mode”) standard. DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 provides seamless interoperability with the new USB4 specification published ...

Intel says game more faster with Intel 10th gen Core i9

Last week Intel introduced the 10th Gen Comet Lake Intel Core S-series desktop processors, including Intel's flagship Core i9-10900K processor, which the company is claiming is the world's fastest gaming processor.* The i9-10900K features up ...

Data wants to be free and Microsoft is arranging a breakout

With all that’s going on right now, doesn’t it seem strange sometimes to see the world is still spinning around out there? But, while we’re locked up information data is flowing all around us and ...

AMD Q1 2020 results

AMD turned 50 in May 2019   AMD’s first quarter was down from Q4, but up year to year in sales and profits. Revenue was $1.79 billion, up 40% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing ...

Chasing the nanometer

Semiconductor Industry Association   Moore’s observation about memory density doubling every one and a half years or so was in retrospect somewhat obvious. Nonetheless, it laid the foundation for futurists and forecasters to predict technological ...

EditShare introduces remote content creation with EFSv

EFSv offers remote resources via AWS. The company says, AWS is just the first implementation and more platforms will be supported. (Source: EditShare)   Although NAB 2020 has been canceled, there are announcements coming out ...