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Nvidia’s Q4 FY19 results

Nvidia reported revenue from most platforms—Gaming, Datacenter, Professional Visualization, and Automotive saw a decline.  The company’s GPU business revenue was $1.98 billion, down 19.5% from a year earlier and down 28.6% sequentially.  Revenue was down ...

AMD at SolidWorks World

Rendering and VR are strong messages for graphics vendors at SolidWorks World 2019 and AMD was riding high on those bandwagons. In addition, AMD is highlighting new GPU accelerated features in SolidWorks 2019. The company ...

Nvidia showcases VR, AR, and rendering at SolidWorks World 2019

At SolidWorks World 2019, Nvidia was selling the merits of its Turing RTX 4000 graphics board to workstation users. At the conference, Nvidia highlighted the advantages to be gained by Nvidia’s dedicated cores for rendering ...

SolidWorks shakes up the status quo at SWW19

Dassault is reeling its SolidWorks community in a little closer. At SolidWorks World, the company unveiled new products for SolidWorks based on the 3DExperience Platform, Dassault’s environment for its enterprise products. This is an ongoing ...

PCIe continues to surprise and delight

I remember back when PCIe 2.0 was released and Jim Pappas, the daddy of USB from Intel, was the champion of it. PCIe 2.0 doubled the bandwidth of 1.0, and offered better flexibility while maintaining ...

V-Ray for SketchUp

Several companies offer a ray tracing plug-in for SketchUp, but Trimble calls this one the “premier renderer for SketchUp.” After more than four years of R&D, V-Ray Next accelerates the SketchUp workflow, and according to ...

AMD squeezes its transistors to re-enter high end

AMD has released its latest Vega 20 GPU and Radeon AIB implementation the Radeon VII, a 3840 shader (60 Vega compute units) with 16 GB of HBM2 RAM, for $699. The new AIB uses 300 ...

Intel builds on the RealSense family

Intel is building on its computer vision family of products with a new RealSense camera, the T265. It is an inside out tracking device, meaning it does not rely on sensors outside the device or ...

Stylistic vs. photorealistic

What’s best understood about ray tracing is that the technology produces physically accurate images, photorealistic depending upon the desires of the artist and producer. For example, BMW wants a perfectly accurate image that is photorealistic. ...

Samsung leads with new TV technology at CES

Samsung’s advertising for The Wall suggests the giant screens are much more than TVs, which makes sense in what may be the start of a post-TV era. (Source: Samsung)   This year's biggest TV screens at CES ...

AMD Q4 2018 results

AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q4 2018, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits.   “We delivered our second straight year of significant ...

Old companies performing like new companies — how curious

  After reading and reporting on the financial results of AMD and Intel, and reading Nvidia’s cautionary letter to its shareholders, I have been struck by the resiliency and dynamism of these companies. AMD and ...