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Autodesk’s bets for the future

The dogs of Autodesk; AU features a petting park for conference attendees. Maybe they relieve stress, and maybe they provide entertainment but they're also darned fine little marketers.  (Source: JPR)   Over the years, Autodesk’s ...

Valve Index VR HMD

Valve introduced their Index VR HMD mid-year 2019, with a declaration that it intended to raise the bar for VR fidelity. The company emphasized that VR needs to advance in three key areas: affordability, ease ...

Think Silicon shows early preview of industry’s first RISC-V GPU

At the upcoming RISC-V Summit, Think Silicon will reveal what it claims is the industry’s first RISC-V ISA based 3D GPU—the NEOX|V. The new offering, says the company, provides a platform for implementation in multiple ...

Imagination launches IMG A-Series

Imagination Technologies announced the tenth generation of its PowerVR graphics architecture, the IMG A-Series. Claiming its IMG A-Series is the fastest GPU IP ever released, the company says it is designed to be The GPU ...

Fujitsu arms a supercomputer

Uchiha Fugaku was a jōnin of Konohagakure and Head of the Uchiha clan, as well as the Konoha Military Police Force. (Source: Fandom.com)   The Fugaku supercomputer is a very large system, in which more ...

Rays being traced everywhere by everything

  2019 will go down as the year of ray tracing. Kicked off by Nvidia at Siggraph 2018, the once arcane and specialized practice of ray tracing that only got used by the movies and ...

Real-time ray tracing on Huawei smartphone

NetEase, founded in June 1997 and based in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, is an Internet company providing online services. At the 2019 Software Green Alliance Developers Conference held recently, NetEase showed the results of realtime ray ...

Teaching 2D cameras to see 3D

Facebook AI researchers Georgia Gkioxari, Shubham Tulsiani, and David Novotny delivered a fascinating paper at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Seoul, titled Pushing state-of-the-art in 3D content understanding. The premise of the ...

Benchmarking is like a map

We test and have tested a lot of graphics AIBs and PCs over the past 30+ years, and we have used synthetic benchmark and application-based benchmarks—we even used to have our own Windows-based benchmark test ...

Google Stadia joins the cloud gaming market

  Stadia is making headlines with its streaming game service but a pack is forming close behind. Sony has been in the game. Watch for entries from Sony, Microstation, Nividia, and Samsung Cloud gaming has ...

Crytek Neon Noir benchmark

  Neon Noir, a free ray tracing benchmark based on the ray-tracing demo of the same name, which was made available as a video during GDC 2019. Neon Noir was developed on a version of ...

Go fast, go faster—Nvidia launches Magnum IO

  If you like fast cars, exciting race scenes, and some pretty good acting, then treat yourself to two and half hours of terror, frustration, and thrills—go see the blockbuster movie Ford vs. Ferrari. See ...