The Tale of Turing
Nvidia’s long expected successor to Pascal in gaming and professional graphics markets is here. At Siggraph in August, Nvidia pulled the covers off of Turing, which one could argue is both a successor to not ...
Altair acquires SimSolid for structural analysis
Altair has acquired SimSolid and the company says it will change the process of analysis. SimSolid, founded in 2015 was based on technology developed by Victor Apanovitch who was also the co-founded of SimSolid. The ...
Open Design Alliance Powers Along Beyond DWG
Why not Prague? Cultures come together and sometimes clash in Eastern Europe. The ODA is all about finding common ground. (Source: Ralph Grabowski) The Open Design Alliance has transformed the CAD universe with the ...
Intel Gen 9 processors
Intel officially announced its 9th Gen Intel Core processors based on their 14 nm++ process. The processors are initially targeted at the high-end and bring some exciting new features and performance capabilities. The 9th Gen ...
Mental Health and VR
At the end of September, in conjunction with National Suicide Prevention Month, I attended a presentation by Matt Vogl, the Executive Director of the National Mental Health Innovation Center (NMHIC) at the CU Anschutz Medical ...
Netflix announces the Post Technology Alliance
Netflix has been extremely influential this year with its spending on content and on marketing its content. (See Report from Telluride.) At IBC in September 2018, the company has also announced its Netflix Post Technology ...
VPU—Evolution of an acronym
In 1992, Pixel, a subsidiary of Circus Logic, introduced two new digital video chips, the CL-PX2070 and CL-PX2080. Those chips were the most sophisticated and complex chips for multimedia and video applications we had seen ...
The Danger of Taking the Console Route in VR
Having watched the Oculus Connect 5 keynote and seeing the follow-up coverage, I think Facebook definitely has some amazing innovations coming around the bend – well earned and hopefully well-publicized innovations. The hardware looks seamless ...
Graphics AIBs are so expensive
With the run up in AIB process due to the crypto-currency mining gold rush, and then the introduction of Nvidia’s Founder-edition RTC2080 Ti, at $1,200, several people have commented about the cost of AIB, and ...
Adobe takes Premiere and After Effects into new territory
In honor of IBC, Adobe updated its video tools new features and long-awaited fixes. In addition, Adobe introduced new mobile tools called Project Rush. This latest update pushes Adobe’s video tools into new territory and ...
Report from Telluride
The Telluride film festival is a rarified festival. It’s a place physically hard to get to. Likewise, the festival organizers pride themselves on presenting movies that require a little extra work on the part of ...
GPU History: Hitachi ARTC HD63484
With the advent of large-scale integrated circuits coming into their own in the late 1970s and early 1980s, fueling the PC revolution and several other developments, came a succession of remarkably powerful graphics controllers. NEC ...