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May your life be artificial

  AI technology—which various companies and the DoD want to use in predictive maintenance, and process automation, is a perfect partner to augmented reality (AR) which enables technicians and maintenance personnel to find, quickly assess ...

Changing the game, Google style.

  We have known for a while that Google has been experimenting with streaming AAA games and we now know what they were aiming for because as of GDC 2019, the world has a new ...

Foundry gets acquired, this time by Roper Technologies

Foundry has announced that it is getting acquired by Roper Technologies, Inc, a constituent of the S&P 500, Fortune 1000, and the Russell 1000 indices. The acquisition will be an all-cash transaction of £410 million ...

Imagination Technologies NNA Update

Imagination technologies have given us a more detailed look at how its PowerVR Series 2NX inferencing accelerator benefits from the variable bit depth quantization that is its unique feature.  The AX 2185 core is the ...

Trimble raises revenues and margins at the end of 2018

The AEC market is busting out in 2018 for many reasons, but probably the driving force is the digitalization of the industry. Trimble has been quietly building on its strengths in GPS, civil engineering, automation, ...

Intel the GPU company—still

Intel has led the market share race on GPUs for almost two decades. That’s because almost every CPU that Intel ships have a built-in integrated GPU. The compromises of being integrated have kept Intel’s and ...

Epic’s new adventures

Every year, Unreal CEO Tim Sweeney and his executive team, set the stage for the GDC conference with their annual State of the Industry presentation. According to Tim Sweeney and company, the state of the ...

The second coming of AR brought to you by Niantic

Niantic is preparing the ground for their new game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, which is coming later this year to Android and iOS devices. The game combines the real world with digital elements a la ...

News from Chaos: Cloud render, V-Ray Next

Chaos Group has announced their new cloud-rendering service, which, they say, differs from competitive services with straightforward pricing that charges only for the rendering time and does not have surprise fees such as additional charges ...

The ubiquitous, universal Universal Serial Bus

When Jim Pappas first spoke to me about USB, which was almost based on Philips I2C, his ambitions for it was a universal peripheral interconnect. That was 23 years ago. Last week, when he introduced ...

Intel to power first exascale supercomputer

  I never met a supercomputer I didn’t like, and boy-oh-boy is there a lot to like about the upcoming Aurora.  Intel and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will deliver the first supercomputer with ...

Ray tracing without Nvidia

Nvidia shook up the CG community last Fall at Siggraph when the company introduced its RTX Turing-based AIBs that are capable of real-time ray tracing (RTRT). Microsoft brought out a special API for it, DXR, ...