AMD’s RX5500 GPU coming soon, to you
The long-rumored and highly anticipated AMD RX5500 GPU is here, well it will be here soon. AMD is only announcing the GPU, one for mobile (RX5500m) and one for desktop (5500 Series), and the ...
Avid at IBC 2019
2019 has been an important year for companies in the video editing business to stake a claim. Avid is still a staple for editing in TVs and movies, but it has gotten a fierce competitive ...
Qualcomm’s ‘XR Enterprise Program’
At the Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit (EWTS) in Dallas this week, Qualcomm announced a new initiative they’re calling the Qualcomm XR Enterprise Program. The program brings XR technologies and products based on the Qualcomm ...
Fortune telling: the complicated GPU market
There are nine segments to the PC GPU market, served by three suppliers. One company, today, serves eight of the nine segments, AMD. Nvidia serves seven of the nine, and Intel currently serves two ...
Wanna be a TV star? — Nvidia wants to make your dream come true
Unsplash Stem.T4L Nvidia just announced its RTX Broadcast Engine at the TwitchCon (a gathering of live streamers), which is a new set of RTX-accelerated software development kits that use the AI capabilities of GeForce ...
What is the best AIB for gaming — it depends
We keep getting requests from Quora and occasional friends asking, what is the best AIB for____, or can AMD XXX do better than Nvidia YYY? Mostly there are lazy questions that could be asked ...
IBC 2019 shows off new formats for cinema
Wretched Excess: Sony’s 6K x 3K Crystal LED display at IBC 2019 is a contender for new large-format movie theaters. It’s beautiful, and almost hard to imagine in a movie theater. Can a screen be ...
Qualcomm the platform master
Photo by Jeshoots.com on Unsplash While Apple and Samsung look on in envy, Qualcomm has been designing and supplying Snapdragon, the best SoC available for high-end phones, and midrange phones for years. In addition ...
Famous Graphics Chips: Artist Graphics GPX
Artist Graphics founded 1979 by Horace and Robert Beale, in Minneapolis released their first add-in board, the Artist 1 in November of 1982, based on an NEC 7220 and sporting a gigantic 1024 × 768 ...
Ang Lee makes his stand for 3D
The International Broadcast Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam is about what to see and how to see it and much of what we ran into was cinema: new cinema, big cinema, and great big screens for ...
Ray tracing will be unavoidable in 2020
Ray tracing has been used in games for some time, but as baked in images. Ray tracing, even at 30 fps, is a computational challenge that has befuddled and frustrated hardware and software engineers for ...
EVGA tidy ups your PC and smooths out the power
Does your PC look like someone dumped a bowl of spaghetti in it and left? Does it remind you a teenager’s closet or the abandoned room your dear old Aunt Ethel used to live in? ...