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AMD delivers a software holiday gift—a boatload of software

AMD’s Adrenalin 2019 Edition has delivered some of the biggest and most unique features we’ve seen so far from the company. The heart of the new software package is a tuned driver that the company ...

Intel’s Koduri lays out the company’s six pillar for the future

At Intel’s recent Architecture Day, Raja Koduri, Intel’s senior vice president of Core and Visual Computing, outlined a strategic shift for the company’s design and engineering model. This shift, said Koduri, will combine a series ...

Famous graphics chips: Intel’s 82786

Now that Intel is reentering the discrete graphics chip market, we thought you might like to know about some of their previous offerings. Everyone knows about Larrabee, and a few remember the i740, but Intel ...

Unreal cities—can AI generate them?

Cities are big complex 3D models and take time to create (model) and render. Various procedural generation concepts have been explored over the years and although some worked in limited or special cases, no one ...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform is the first commercial mobile platform supporting multi-gigabit 5G, capable of AI and XR. Using 7-nm process technology, the Snapdragon 855, says the company, will offer users long-lasting battery ...

Autodesk hits its marks

Following up on successful Autodesk University and building on its successful transition to subscription presented its investors with a positive accounting of its fiscal quarter Q3, 2019, which ended October 31, 2018. In addition, the ...

Nvidia reveals the Turing-based Titan RTX AIB

Designed for a variety of GPU computation applications Nvidia has launched its Titan RTX targeting AI training, real-time ray-traced graphics, and virtual reality markets with it. The company calls out the following features of the ...

Imagination expands its NN accelerator lineup

Just in time for Festivus, Imagination Technologies has announced its upgraded lineup of Neural Network Accelerator IP cores with three new IP core lines becoming available by the second half of 2019. This blizzard of ...

Imagination reveals new PowerVR Series9 GPUs

Imagination Technologies announced its new PowerVR Series9XEP, Series9XMP, and Series9XTP GPU IP designs. The 9XEP and 9XMP are based on Imagination’s Rogue architecture and the higher end 9XTP GPU is based on Furian. The new ...

Apple gradually wins back professionals with Final Cut Pro X

Apple has never worried its very pretty head about stuff like backward compatibility. The company has abandoned software, eliminated headphone ports, changed charging ports multiple times, disappeared drives, and tells users to keep up with ...

AMD’s Next Horizon dawns with 7nm Epyc Rome Zen 2 processor

If Las Vegas placed odds on what news AMD would break in San Francisco at its Next Horizon, the heavy favorites would have been clear: the official announcements of both Zen 2 processor technology and ...

Benchmarking ray tracing

Ray tracing, as everyone knows, is a simple algorithm that can totally consume a processor. But how much a given processor is consumed is an unanswerable question because it depends upon the scene and of ...