Want a truck—Volvo has one for you
At the PTC LiveWorx19 conference the other week, CEO and visionary Jim Heppelmann showed off Volvo trucks—actually had two of them on stage with him during his keynote. Volvo and PTC have been working together ...
Imagination Technologies’ ability to virtualize the GPU
What is GPU virtualization? Conceptually, virtualization is the capability of a device to host one or more virtual machines (VMs) that each behave like actual independent machines with their its own operating system (OS), all ...
Hexagon squares the circle
Hexagon is best known as a sensor company, making 3D laser scanners and articulated-arm sensors that check the fit of finished products. After a car comes off the assembly line, for instance, robotic sensors scan ...
Dassault announces plan to acquire Medidata for a heart stopping $5.8 billion deal
Dassault Systemes may have started as a CAD/PLM company, but it is morphing into something else entirely. The company has announced plans to buy Medidata, a health care company that provides a cloud-based platform to ...
PTC’s bet in AR and IoT is paying off
PTC’s new headquarters on the Boston waterfront is in the heart of Boston’s building boom and designed to be a magnet for talent in PTC’s fast-growing IoT and AR business. (Source: JPR) PTC is ...
Lenovo launches light workstation
Lenovo has introduced the next generation of its ThinkPad P Series mobile workstations with the release of five new ThinkPads, including the ThinkPad P73, ThinkPad P53, ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, and ThinkPad P53s and P43s. ...
Graphisoft’s plan to be #1
Graphisoft is the Hungarian software company that began in 1984 when Gábor Bojár thought of designing buildings virtually in 3D. As a result, ArchiCAD became the earliest version of BIM (building information modeling) software. In ...
Apple launches their most powerful workstation ever
We the committed—wait. Mill around outside 08:30 to 09:00, seated 09:00, show starts at 10:00, ends 12:30—fours of Applesauce Apple’s slick back cylindrical Mac Pro circa 2013. (Source: Apple) Dub dub has never been ...
Nvidia looks for new markets at Computex
Nvidia’s Executive VP Jeff Fisher delivered Nvidia’s message to Computex this year and gave a short lesson in building markets using the Red Ocean Blue Ocean market strategy defined by W. Chan Kim & ...
Eurocom rolls out a 2.5-kg, 15-inch mobile notebook
Eurocom has introduced its latest laptop, the Eurocom Nightsky RX15, a 15.6-inch system with a Retina-type OLED panel from Samsung. The company says the Nightsky RX15 was designed for a variety of users ranging from ...
Good week for AMD
Following on the heels of the big Samsung deal, AMD got another boost on Monday when Apple announced the Mac Pro workstation based on AMD graphics AIBs. Apple has about 8% market share of a ...
Marvell makes some shifts
Marvell has been active over the last 90 days. The company has acquired GlobalFoundries Avera business, which GlobalFoundries had acquired from IBM. And Marvell sold its WiFi and Bluetooth/BLE combo solutions portfolio to NXT for ...