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What has 24 shaders and 2 CPUs — Amber Lake

Amber Lake-Y processors employ Intel's UHD Graphics 615 (GT2) integrated graphics processing unit (iGPU). The iGPU features 24 Execution Units (EUs) running at a base clock of 300 MHz with a turbo clock up to ...

And now there are 11

The last major architectural improvement to the basic GPU design happened when the major GPU suppliers went to unified shaders with the introduction of Direct3D 10, Shader Model 4.0, in 2008. That was ten years ...

Dassault wants to be everything to its customers

Dassault introduced the 3DExperience Marketplace in February 2018 as an online resource for products and services. On introduction Dassault said Marketplace offers access to 50 digital manufacturers with 500 machines and 30 million components from ...

Xometry enjoys a growth spurt

Xometry, founded in 2013 by Randy Altschuler offers manufacturing services via the cloud. The company has seen fast growth with significant investment from the Foundry Group and a lineup of investors that includes GE and ...

Visiting Autodesk Build

The design world is navigating a fundamental shift that might someday enable people to design or modify their own products. Certainly business models are changing, services and products are packaged together, and designs can be ...

Autodesk BIM 360 Design

Autodesk took advantage of the recent AIA 2018 show in New York City to update customers on its new products, technology, and latest acquisition. Included in the news was the introduction of BIM 360 Design, ...

Happy Birthday Intel

Intel celebrates its 50th year as an on-going enterprise. Fifty years ago, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel with a purpose: to ponder what might be possible. Intel’s anniversary is officially July 18, 2018, ...

Happy Birthday Disneyland

Who has gone to Disneyland (or world) in any country and not left banging themselves on the side of their head trying to shake out, “It’s a small small world we live in… “  See, ...

Famous Graphics Chips: NEC µPD7220 Graphics Display Controller

This is the first in a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. In buzzword talk, they were disruptive devices, and in ...

It’s a connector, it’s a planetarium, it’s VirtualLink

In June 2017, Konica Minolta and Konica Minolta Planetarium Co. announced they would launch VirtuaLink, a location-based multiplayer virtual reality entertainment service. The service allows up to 50 visitors to share a 360-degree virtual space ...

See color in me in 3D: Medipix3

As you know, X-ray, MRI, and CAT scans are reproduced in monochrome, between 12 and 16 bits/pixel, which corresponds to 4,096–65,536 shades of gray. But what if, instead of a black and white X-ray picture, ...

Is the VR party (finally) over?

Anyone who follows the mainstream technical press will have noticed the recent wave of stories and editorials about the decline in interest and sales of VR hardware. This is not surprising to me, and in ...