Q1’20 shipments
The first wave of estimates by Canalys, Gartner, and IDC for Q1’20 PC shipments have been posted, and the average of the estimates is shipments declined almost 26% from Q4’19. That’s the most significant quarter-to-quarter ...
Looking Glass plugs into Unreal Engine
Looking Glass came out in 2019 and stunned the world with their holographic 3D display. It’s not a true holograph in that it doesn’t use inferences or wave patterns but does use light fields and ...
PC GPU suppliers to increase 75% in 2021 with boost from Chinese development
Demonstrating a profound faith in the future of the PC in China, and seeking to reduce costs, three Chinese firms Phytium, Jingjia, and Innosilicon are believed to have signed licenses with Imagination technologies to produce ...
Imagination under UK government scrutiny
When Canyon Bridge Partners, which is owned by China Reforma Chinese state-owned investment fund, sought to buy Imagination Technologies in 2017, Theresa May's government approved the acquisition on the basis that Canyon Bridge was licensed ...
Minecraft with Nvidia’s ray tracing GPU and RTX
Nvidia offered a sneak peek at what is possible when the world’s most popular game employs ray tracing technology. The company is also offering some tutorials to help Minecrafters get started using ray tracing in ...
Better video on your phone due to Pixelworks
Pixelworks has been massaging and polishing pixels for over 22 years and they know a thing or two about what’s needed and how to accomplish optimized graphics display capabilities. The mobile space has some very ...
CorelDraw 2020 expands its base through collaboration, mobile tools, and Mac users
CorelDraw has been steadily improving and growing its own distinct user base, gaining strength from its solid footing in the Windows world and its availability with a perpetual license. It goes without saying that CorelDraw ...
Twice the sense of other controllers—Sony’s dual
Sony is shipping its new wireless controller to developers who are implementing its unique dual-sensing features into their games. Sony claims the features of DualSense, along with PS5’s Tempest 3D AudioTech, will deliver a new ...
Famous graphics Chips: S3 ViRGE
In the mid-1990s, two major developments were taking place. One was the explosion of 3D graphics chip companies, and the other was the emergence of virtual reality from the labs to industry. In 1990, twenty ...
OEMs launch 100+ laptop designs with GeForce GPUs
(Source: Asus) Nvidia, Intel, and over 100 notebook OEMs introduce new, powerful, and affordable devices just in time to support the work-at-home mandates of the COVID-19 crisis. Intel announced the long-anticipated 10th gen H ...
Facebook’s AR glasses getting closer
Plessey, a developer of microLED technology for AR/MR displays in Devon, UK, said they have decided to work with Facebook to help the company achieve its vision of the next computing platform. Plessey designs and ...
Upside of the crisis—Chromebooks
Courtesy of Jodi Meyer Google and its suppliers are beneficiaries of the Coronavirus crisis as schools all over the US buy Chromebooks for low-income families to enable homeschooling. In Marin, California alone, 1,500 Chromebooks ...