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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 ...

Streaming is the next evolution in media delivery

Streaming gaming is getting a lot of attention, especially with Google’s recent announcement as a provider. All the major gaming companies such as Microsoft, EA, Nvidia, and others are either offering such a service capability ...

The AutoCAD workalike market in 2019

  AutoCAD is targeted by many workalike software vendors precisely because it is the most successful general 2D/3D CAD program of all time. With four, six, eight, twelve million users of the 35-year-old software, entrepreneurs ...

Vizrt acquires NewTek

NewTek and Vizrt came to NAB with some stories to tell. Vizrt announced on April 1, 2019 that they will buy NewTek in a deal expected to close in the second quarter of 2019. The ...

HP updates its Z workstations with Cascade Lake

HP came to NAB with good friends Intel to show off their new workstations, which just happened to be perfect for video content creation, VFX, and other memory intensive jobs. The broadcast and content creation ...

Adobe reimagines 3D

It’s been a while, but the cover for our New Year’s issue was created using Dimension, Adobe’s tool which enables users to combine 3D models with 2D backgrounds to create a new artwork. We didn’t ...

Intel has the data center covered

Intel used an announcement about its new Cascade Lake-based Xeon 9200 Platinum to show off all the stuff they are bringing to the data center, which introduces many multiple SKUs and a range of supporting ...

Unity at GDC

Unity came to GDC fighting the perception it’s riding back seat to Epic’s position in the shotgun seat. The company made some progress during this year’s over 2-hour long keynote—not that Unity ever admits for ...

Living the fantasy: B.S.B.B. MKII: Call it art

We came across the B.S.B.B. MKII while wandering aimlessly around GDC. Cordoned off, alone in the exhibit area, a man sat in the control center barking orders, or receiving them, we’re not complexly sure in ...

Famous Graphics Chips: IBM’s XGA

IBM introduced the eXtended Graphics Array XGA graphics chip and add-in board (AIB) in late October 1990, and it was the last graphics chip and AIB IBM would produce after having set all the standards ...

Doubling down on ray tracing at GTC 2019

And the fact they are so symbiotic could have a lasting and dramatic impact on 3D visual processing.  Right at the outset of this year’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went out ...