PTC hits rough road
PTC has been very optimistic about its transition to subscription and its concurrent development of new business. Unfortunately for the third quarter of 2019, the company’s executive team had to do a lot of fairly ...
AMD Q2 2019 results
AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q2 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “I am pleased with our financial performance and ...
Modo demonstrates new features for fashion, AEC, and content creation
The focus for Modo at Siggraph 2019 was cross-platform fluidity and cross-discipline applicability. The three speakers at Modo’s Siggraph user event included designer Thomas Groppi from NEXII, rigging TD Richard Hurrey from Kitestring, and 3D ...
Maxon updates features and licensing for Cinema 4D
Maxon is modernizing on all fronts. At Siggraph 2019, the company outlined new features and tools for Cinema 4D R 21, Maxon’s flagship 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software. Maxon is consolidating all of the ...
Nvidia loves indies
Nvidia launched the DXR Spotlight contest this spring with Epic and Microsoft and has just announced a trio of winners. The DXR Spotlight contest, an offshoot of the Nvidia Indie Spotlight Program, invited game ...
Nvidia brings ray tracing and AI to Siggraph again
This year at Siggraph, Nvidia showed a lineup of RTX Studio Laptops and Mobile Workstations that the company said were purpose-built for creators, and coming from every major OEM—10 new designs from Dell, HP, Lenovo ...
Intel’s long-term vision for exascale content
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Scene rendered by MoonRay (with Embree): Property of DreamWorks Animation. At Intel’s inaugural Create event at Siggraph 2019, the company outlined its vision for rendering with ...
Realtime ray tracing shown by Adshir at Siggraph
Ever since Arthur Appel proposed the core technology for ray tracing in his 1968 paper, realtime ray tracing has been the ultimate goal for computer graphics. The Ballistics Research Lab (BRL) demonstrated ray tracing ...
Siggraph attendance beats forecast
We’ve been tracking Siggraph’s attendance since the conference started and attending almost that long as well. Siggraph went through an explosive period, climaxing 22 years ago in 1997 ago just before the internet bubble popped. ...
Intel Q2 2019 results
Intel reported its calendar Q2 2019; revenues were down year-over-year 3% but grew quarter-to-quarter. Intel achieved 1% growth in the PC-centric business while data-centric revenue declined 7%. “Second quarter results exceeded our expectations on both ...
Accelerating AR/VR: Kronos releases OpenXR
With growing adoption from XR industry and expanding ecosystem support, Khronos has released an advanced acceleration standard, OpenXR 1.0. It comes with publicly available implementations and substantial ecosystem momentum. OpenXR is a unifying, royalty-free, open ...
Corsair acquires Origin PC
Corsair began in 1994 as a PC DIMM memory supplier and quickly expanded to power supplies, coolers, keyboards, and other peripherals and components. The company has become a trusted supplier to the DIY community, ...