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Multi-device gaming is the new reality, says Bob O’Donnell

President and Chief at Analyst, Bob O’Donnell at Technalysis ran a multi-country survey of 2,022 people and concluded that gamers want to game on everything everywhere. Some of his results are reported here. Who’s gaming ...

Will 20 million gamers switch to streaming gaming?

The publicity for a recent update of JPR’s TV Gaming Report included a headline predicting 20 million gamers will switch to streaming gaming. The headline achieved its goals and has received considerable comment.  In response ...

NAB Notes

Change is a constant for the NAB show, and its international counterpart IBC, because broadcast is an industry ruled by committees, standards, laws, regulations, and humans. Broadcast is based on semi-miraculous technologies: radio waves, television ...

Famous Graphics Chips: Number Nine’s Imagine 128

By the early 1990s, the PC industry was still expanding and offering plenty of opportunity for all. IBM had lost its position of leadership and for a few years the market existed on commercial off ...

Intel and Nvidia announce chips for gaming notebooks and desktops

What good is a new PC with a new CPU if it doesn’t also have a new GPU? Right. So when Intel let its bestest friends in the OEM community know that they would soon ...

Siemens NX gets smart

Siemens’ latest version of its flagship design software, NX, has been updated with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company believes it is the first design tool to include AI and ML, but if Siemens ...

The Lisa Su effect

When Lisa Su took over the presidency of AMD in October 2014, the company was at an all-time low, and its share price was $2.80. At that same time, Intel’s share price was $32.80, and ...

Graphisoft has a new CEO

Graphisoft, an early innovator in BIM and one of the key companies in the Nemetschek collection of companies for design, construction, and project management has announced the appointment of Huw Roberts as CEO.  Graphisoft’s former ...

Ray tracing in PS5?

We just got a glimpse at what might be coming in the new Sony console. That’s exciting, and so is the new that there will be a new console. Rumors about the PS5 have been ...

Apple and Qualcomm settle over Intel withdraw

Source: Qualcomm You got to give Intel credit for trying. When the company forced out Paul Otellini as CEO in 2013 for his failure to push Intel into the mobile business, they opened their checkbook ...

AMD updates ProRender at NAB 2019

AMD used its trip to NAB to showcase the latest additions to ProRender new partnerships and plugins. AMD is driving hard with rendering for 2019 including performance boosts. AMD is updating plug-ins for Max, Maya, and Blender. ...

Avid opens a new chapter

Just before NAB last year, the Avid community was shocked by the sudden firing of CEO Louis Hernandez. They were shocked, but it has not been reported that they were saddened. Avid has struggled to ...