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Sony Innovation Studios to offer tools for immersive storytelling and digital asset creation

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has partnered with Dell, Deloitte Digital, and Intel to launch Innovation Studios being built on its Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, CA. Innovation Studios is expected to be operational early ...

Nvidia mines AI and machine learning for opportunities

You may have been noticing some pretty cool videos out there demonstrating fast rendering, image reconstruction, facial recognition, and so much more. A great benefit of relatively recent breakthroughs of machine learning is that the ...

PTC announces third quarter fiscal year 2018 results

PTC is coming to the culmination of a near-decade-long transition of its technology and its business model. PTC’s Mark Brunelli has written a good history of the company’s transition, which is useful if you’re not ...

DARPA Summit in San Francisco reveals new advances in design technology

As other countries step up semiconductor development efforts in order to build homegrown industries, and Moore’s Law shows its age, the United States and its allies risk losing their dominance in the industry. At the ...

Will Siggraph 2018 be the year of ray tracing?

As we try to mitigate our excitement in the run up to Siggraph, which can only be compared to the weeks before Christmas, subtle hints and leaks are dribbling out of some of the exhibitors ...

No more ring

Eleven years ago, the Larrabee project was started in 2007. In 2010, the company killed the project. Then in 2011, Intel introduced the Xeon Phi, an accelerator card based on the 22-nm “Knights Corner” chip. ...

Intel Q2 2018 results

Intel reported its calendar Q2 2018, revenues were up 15% year-over-year driven, says the company, by strength across the business and customer demand for performance-leading Intel platforms.  ”After five decades in tech, Intel is poised ...

AMD Q2 2018 results

AMD reported a record quarter for calendar Q2 2018, revenues and operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits.   ”We had an outstanding second quarter with strong revenue ...

Pixar Animation Studios announces the release of RenderMan 22

  The latest release of the new version of production renderer RenderMan was announced by Pixar Animation Studios. Version number 22 comes on the 30th anniversary of the company’s founding. The new version, RenderMan 22, ...

Epic Studios releases Unreal Engine 4.20

The recent release of Unreal Engine focuses on multi-platform support, and promises improved character development, for more lifelike characters.  The game creation engine, Unreal Engine 4.20, introduces Niagara particle engine for VFX, a new Depth ...

Qualcomm has a tough week but great results

In late June this year, Qualcomm reported a record quarter, with overall revenue of $5.6 billion, Net income of $1.2 billion, and shipments of 220 million devices. While some of Qualcomm’s competitors in the semiconductor ...

New PC, and maybe TV forecast

Making forecasts is always complicated and never a sure thing; and, to get a forecast close to reality, it’s necessary to constantly tweak factors and adjust assumptions. US President Trump has precipitated quite a bit ...