AMD Q1 2018 results
$1.65 billion in sales, $121 million GAAP profit for the quarter, sales and profit up from last quarter. AMD reported its calendar Q1 2018, and got a round of applause from investors, in the form of ...
Sony revives projection system AR with Superception.
Outward AR is an interesting approach Microsoft’s Beamatron was one of the fist AR projection systems in 2012 using a fixed location projector (video here). Valve spinoff, Cast AR, was the first in 2013 to ...
AMD at Intel
The triumphant now wear blue badges Raja Koduri was the vanguard who left AMD in December and popped up at Intel in January, and he’s lured a few of his old friends to join him. ...
SuperD’s subdivision surfaces are sublime and smooth
Using a little code to make big impressions Our friends at SuperD have been relentlessly toiling away at the math and code of their amazing sub-surfacing tool. We first reported on this in our July ...
CorelDraw from an ex Visio user’s perspective
CorelDraw is a BIG program, over 170 MB—over two times bigger than Word, and it takes a minute and half to load. Popular with graphics artist for almost 30 years, it was one of the ...
Intel exits wearables
Another adventure ended In 2013, with great fanfare, the new devices group (NDG) was started under the direction of Mike Bell, a former Apple and Palm executive. Then Intel acquired fitness watch maker Basis in ...
Sony very happy about PS4 sales
Sony Profits for Quarter Almost 347% Up The Sony profit forecast for the year to March 2018, has rebounded. The giant electronics and media company announced its expectations to realize record annual profits, and attributes ...
Nvidia versus Wave: Competition for the datacenter heats up
What Nvidia is doing to Intel, Wave is trying to do to Nvidia, and it might just work We got a look at Nvidia’s DGX2 datacenter accelerator at GTC a few weeks ago and about ...
Particle visualization of mols in Stuttgart
MegaMol from the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart The Visualisation Research Centre (VISUS) is a central institution of the University of Stuttgart. About 30 scientists research in different areas of scientific visualization, ...
Referrals: New article evaluates external graphics for Macs
The idea of using external graphics as a means of beefing up a laptop or desktop computer is not new, but it has been revitalized by the availability of Thunderbolt on modern machines. In 2008 ...
Ryzen re-risen
Act two of the Zen One year after the release of the AMD’s Ryzen processors, the company announced the 2nd generation AMD Ryzen desktop processors. This second-generation Ryzen desktop processor lineup includes two 8-core, 16-thread ...
It’s not all about the CPU
The evolution of future processors Is it a revolution — or just evolution? The GPU with its hyper-dense compute capacity and relatively low cost, is an amazingly powerful workload accelerator for certain classes of problems ...