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What you see, may be more than what you bargained for

Whether it be hardware or software, it's no longer enough to build bigger, faster, more efficient products. They gotta be smarter.  That's what we're seeing this Fall. Every meeting we've attended that introduced new semiconductor technology ...

Done deal: GitHub now belongs to Microsoft

Microsoft announced its plans to acquire GitHub last June. At the time the announcement inspired considerable gnashing of teeth. No surprise there. GitHub is a community of developers—free-spirited, open-source type of developers. We actually found ...

Ray-tracing in games — a dissenting POV

Just in case you are new to my ramblings, and passions, allow me to tell you about my background and interests. I am an avid game player, specifically AAA FPS single player. I am also ...

SmartTalk: Voice is the new playground for AI

We confidently tell ourselves technology works when it disappears. Perhaps the biggest AI shift will slip in right under our noses. In fact, maybe it already has in the form of voice interaction. As evidenced ...

Adobe is thinking about your future

Just a whole lot of stuff going on at Adobe Max 2018. (Source: JPR) This year’s Adobe Max, the company's user conference featured familiar tools in new packages. Last year, Adobe introduced a cloud- based ...

AMD Q3 2018 results

AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q3 2018, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits.    We delivered our fifth straight quarter of year-over-year ...

Intel Q3 2018 results

Intel reported its calendar Q3 2018, revenues were up 19% year-over-year driven, says the company, by strength across the business and customer demand for performance-leading Intel platforms. ”Stronger than expected customer demand across our PC ...

Imagination Technologies’ Power VR 3C Compression

Imagination has introduced a new compression scheme for GPUs that it claims provides visually lossless image compression with a guaranteed reduction in memory footprint. The company is offering its new PVRIC4, which is an image ...

Micron reveals its strategy for growth in the memory and storage markets

Micron Technology, in its 40th year and flush with new revenues from the huge amounts of memory being used by data centers, AI, gaming, visualization, etc., announced at the new event, Insight ’18, its future ...

@Xi packs more punch in core-based workstations

Intel offers their Xeon brand CPU as the preferred solution for high-performance workstations. OEMs like Dell, Fujitsu, HP, and Lenovo tote the line and offer workstations based on Xeons. A couple of mavericks also offer ...

Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 675 Mobile Platform

Qualcomm held a 5G conference in Hong Kong in late October to introduce its new Snapdragon 675 Mobile Platform. The company is claiming the new SoC will offer outstanding gaming, a leap in AI capability ...

Bentley and Siemens unveil PlantSight

PlantSight combines the real world and digital information to provide a digital twin for plants. (Source: Bentley Systems/Siemens)   Bentley Systems and Siemens have teamed up to demonstrate the kind of future enabled by cloud-based ...