You car will see you tomorrow
Before our cars can become the robot slaves we want them to be, taking us here and there and not making us tell them how or when. Before they can have some sense of vision ...
Consoles vs. PCs
Nobody said gamers would stop gaming. The detail is simply, like audiophiles used to have much higher end equipment than what anyone else could afford, or a high-end cell phone was different than a low ...
Epic’s Unreal team acquires Abvent for Twinmotion
Game engines are becoming powerful tools for a variety of work beyond the game industry. Of the largest areas of opportunity is the CAD market, but game engines are still difficult for people to use ...
W stands for workstation
Intel’s latest generation of Xeon processors are specifically designed for workstations, and the company has cleverly designated them the W series. Workstations are a growing market segment and have been for quite some time. They ...
NewTek’s Lightwave 3D 2019 arrives on time
Last year, NewTek released Lightwave 2018; this year, the company released LightWave 2019. To anyone who hasn’t covered the trials and tribulations of LightWave that doesn’t seem like big news, but the company has famously ...
Imagination announces ray tracing technology for licensing
Imagination Technologies announced its PowerVR Ray Tracing technology for licensing to enable state-of-the-art realistic image rendering using light-modeling techniques. The IP is designed to be integrated into GPUs in mobile, automotive, server, and other markets. ...
Intel graphics AIBs—hello, goodbye
When Intel decided to develop an alternative AIB to compete with discrete GPUs, they choose to use a ring of x86 processor, and called it Larrabee, named after Larrabee State Park in Whatcom County, Washington. ...
Intel Q1 2019 results
Intel reported its calendar Q1 2019, revenues were flat year-over-year and achieved 4% growth in the PC-centric business while data-centric revenue declined 5%. “We shipped a strong mix of high-performance products and continued spending discipline ...
The Foundry rolls out Modo 13
The Foundry is rolling out a major update to its Modo software, three installments to complete the Modo 13 Series. The first installment is out and offers significant updates to rendering, animation, and added modeling ...
AMD Q1 2019 results
AMD reported its quarter results for calendar Q1 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “We delivered solid first quarter results with significant ...
Maxon gets its own renderer in RedShift
It’s been a big year for Maxon. The company won its first Academy Award, and in the last 12 months it has gotten a new CEO, David McGavran, and it celebrated this year’s NAB by ...
Intel expands its visualization framework
At FMX, Intel’s Sr. Principal Engineer, Sr. Director, Advanced Rendering and Visualization, presented updates on Intel’s Rendering Framework which includes the open source tools and libraries of Embree and OSPRay, Open SWR, and the Open ...