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Intel’s embedded multi-die interconnect bridge

Most chips in today's smartphones, computers, and servers are comprised of multiple smaller chips invisibly sealed inside one rectangular package. How those multiple chips—often including CPU, graphics, memory, IO, and more—communicate has been a challenge ...

Unity HDRP and all those rays

  The latest release of Unity (2019.3) with High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) has been released. HDRP, says Unity, focuses on optimizations that can render resource-intensive visuals while maintaining constant, steady frame rates. With HDRP, ...

Graebert steps-up to BIM

There are nearly three dozen CAD programs on the market that work like AutoCAD, but there is only one that comes close to AutoCAD's market size. Autodesk executives speak of 10–12 million versions of AutoCAD ...

Autodesk supports Build Change at Autodesk University

Much of the discussion at Autodesk University revolves around new building projects, but as our world shrinks, the built environment may offer the most opportunity for change and improvement. This year, Autodesk named Build Change ...

Autodesk introduces Construction Cloud

The themes and news coming out of Autodesk University aren’t big surprises. The company focused heavily on AEC and zoomed in on construction. Well, why not? These conferences aren’t about surprises. Companies use conferences to ...

AMD releases the 7-nm Pro W5700

  The evolution of graphics processors has profoundly changed over the last 20 years. The first specialized graphics architectures were almost purely fixed-function and could only accelerate a very limited range of computation such as ...

AMD announces its new RX 5500 is stuck in an Apple

  AMD announced the Radeon RX 5500 series GPU based on their RDNA gaming architecture and promising the ultimate in high-performance, high-fidelity 1080p gaming. The company claims the Radeon RX 5500 series provides up to ...

The Foundry releases Mari 4.6 with enhanced materials system

Mari, the Foundry’s tool for texturing and paint was born of the film industry. It stands out for its ability to handle very large models and support very high-resolution textures. Its users are primarily content ...

Intel unveils Xe-architecture-based discrete GPU for HPC

Intel made a few significant and interesting announcements at the 2019 supercomputer conference (SC19) in Denver. The company officially launched its OneAPI, a unified and scalable programming model for heterogeneous computing architectures. Announced a general-purpose ...

Nvidia’s Q3 FY20 results

Nvidia’s got game   Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.6 billion, up22% from last quarter, but down 8% from ...

GPU outlook for PC gaming and data centers

  The PC GPU market is multi-segmented over several platforms and multiple market categories. Therefore, it is not possible to make summary assumptions and predictions about GPUs because a GPU is not a single thing. ...

XR is the new name of head mounted computing and AI does not use a display when it plays video games

  Due to the incorporation of cameras on the front of what have been traditionally known as “VR headsets,” the VR and AR industries were faced with a conundrum and an overlap. AR can be ...