Is it Time to Rename the GPU?
I was reminiscing last week about the GPU and having a friendly debate with my pals at Nvidia about the origin of the acronym. They of course claim they invented it, the device and the ...
Pivooto claims compression denser than WebP
A clever Dutch game developer based in Eindhoven developed a new, very efficient compression engine, originally targeted for handheld games. He named the engine Pivooto and used the name for their company too. Hugo Smits, ...
Steamy results make seeing the truth difficult
If one looks at the distribution of AIBs, AMD has about 35% market share based on Q1’18 shipments. Not all those AIBs were used for gaming, but most of them were. Q1’18 market share desktop ...
Magic Leap Launches SDK
Magic Leap has launched its Lumin SDK, a plug-in for Unity and Uneal, after a long wait by developers wanting something/anything they can get to work on. It will allow developers to build AR experiences ...
Talent Wars
The revolving doors in Silicon Valley are nothing new, but within the last two or so years the migration at the superstar techno level has been particularly intense—especially in the GPU and CPU space. Some ...
Qualcomm announces three new Snapdragon mobile platforms
Qualcomm announced this week three new additions to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 and 400 tiers: the Snapdragon 632, 439, and 429 mobile platforms. These platforms, says the company, are engineered to bring higher performance, better ...
uSens’ hand sensing, no added hardware
Last year, uSens introduced a stereo camera module capable of hand tracking. Now, uSens say they can achieve the same thing with just a smartphone's camera. At the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, uSens ...
Dell’s 13-in 2-in-1, the Latitude 7390
Dell sold its first laptop in 1989, and it still looks good today. Dell's first laptop, the 316LT, 1989 For the past 30 years, Dell has made lots of laptops, notebooks, and tablets, so ...
Microsoft builds out its game dev talent
Microsoft is aggressively increasing its in house game development work and is adding five new game development teams through acquisition and is also founding a new development studio called the Initiative, which will be based in ...
Acer’s new V6810 4K HDR projector is affordable and feature rich
Acer has been surprising us for years with small-sized, high resolution bright projectors that don’t cost very much, and the V6810 is no exception. The latest from Acer America is a compact 4K UHD projector ...
ATI and Toronto: a long history in tech
Array Technology Inc. was founded in 1985 by K.Y. Ho, and the Lau brothers, Lee, Francis, and Benny, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. The company subsequently moved to Markham, just north of Toronto, in 1993. The ...
VR no longer needs a headset
Heard of DeepFakes? Face and/or body swapping of celebrities. It’s the product of deep learning-driven facial image manipulation and has become a thing online. In the last year convincing fake videos known as DeepFakes have ...