Remote graphics changing the landscape
To the best of our recollection, HP was the first to offer a remote graphics solution that wasn’t based on X-Windows. In the Spring of 2004, HP came up with the idea to allow users ...
Apple iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR
Apple announced its new iPhones and sold 35 million of them—pent-up demand? Have people been that hungry for a $1.000 pocket warmer that can take pictures and play music? I guess so. Apple announced the ...
Ryff brings dynamic product placement to OTT video streaming
Take a little bit of AI, mix it with 3D technology, add marketing advertising experience and you might come up with something like Ryff, a new company with the ability to seamlessly add products in ...
Cinema 4D 20 arrives
Maxon introduced Cinema 4D release 20 at Siggraph this year and rolled out the new software weeks later. They’ve got that stable cadence down, as befits a German company, though the company has a strong ...
Maxon gets new CEO
Maxon’s parent company Nemetschek has always been an interesting company, more a group of independent companies with a layer of infrastructure on top to provide some management and bookkeeping. The structure has served the company ...
Allegorithmic showcases new tools, new partnerships, new markets at Siggraph 2018
Allegorithmic has been throwing itself parties all around the world to show off its capabilities, to teach users new tricks, and to preview upcoming software. Allegorithmic, with the help of industry partners, is defining new ...
HP’s Sprout blossom: the Z3D camera
In 2018, the HP Sprout all-in-one creative content workstation got a significant upgrade as HP took in all the response it received to the original product and made significant changes to relaunch the next version, ...
Dell at Gamescom
Gamescom saw the introduction of new products from Dell under the brand name of Alienware and Dell. Dell used the event to preview new products coming soon in the September 2018 time frame. Dell showed ...
The HDR Gaming Interest Group arrives on the scene
Sony and Microsoft have formed the HDR Gaming Interest Group (HGiG) and have invited TV game developers, hardware manufacturers, and others to participate in an effort to improve the HDR gaming experience. The proposed initiatives ...
Mythic builds an analog computer
Neural network inference is all about the memory according to the founders of Redwood City-based Mythic. Since the company was founded in 2012, Mike Henry and Dave Fick have attracted $55 million in funding and ...
The many roles and names of the GPU
The original use and development for the GPU was to accelerate 3D games and rendering. The acceleration of the game’s 3D models involved geometry processing, matrix math, and sorting. Rendering involved polishing pixels and hiding ...
AMD and Nvidia show what they’ve got at Gamescon
A graphics processing unit (GPU) with the power and ability to present gamers with gorgeously rendered graphics and physics effects at high frame rates is a valued asset for a gamer. Increasingly AI is also ...