What’s new is old, again
In a world of unending remakes we seem to love nostalgia Game of Thrones XXIIX, Sound & Fury Returns (for the 20th time), Star Wars 112 at theaters this summer. And so it goes, the ...
Mt Tiburon testing tabs
AMD fills out its entry class Radeon Pro GPUs with Polaris While anticipated release of the upcoming Vega GPU is hogging the limelight, AMD has completed the transition of its Radeon Pro workstation GPU line-up ...
The truth about Ethereum Mining
GPUs were made for this Ethereum Mining is a computationally intensive work that requires a lot of processing power and time. Mining is the act of participating in a given peer distributed cryptocurrency network in ...
Qualcomm gets into the HIVE
Qualcomm selected by DARPA’s HIVE Project to accelerate the future of deep learning DARPA—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE) project has the objective of creating a graph analytics processor that ...
E3 2017: rise of the machines
PCs were in prominent display at E3—finally No I am not talking about Terminators, I’m talking about PCs—gaming PCs. This year E3 had the most PC presence (by units on the floor) ever in my ...
Today’s VR is so disappointing
Can we finally say the emperor is naked, and move on? The fact that I am not happy with the state of affairs in VR today is probably not news. But, what you ...
SuperD, fast, organic modeling on the iPad
Boulder Graphics has just release its SuperD for the Apple iPad, a 3D modeling app for conceptual design that runs on an iPad. The app is based on recursive subdivision (SubD), but according to developer ...
AMD offers Radeon ProRender for Blender and SolidWorks
Is this exciting news? AMD has announced that its free ray-tracing engine, ProRender, will run within Blender, as well as Maya, 3ds Max, and SolidWorks. AMD says ProRender uses a physically-based workflow that allows multiple materials ...
Turn down the power, turn up the performance
Can you really do that? Gaming is a major social and technological phenomenon, engaged in by a third to a half of humanity. Unfortunately, the associated energy use has been understudied, and passed over in ...
The new Frontier for AMD
GPU-compute where no person has gone before AMD has released the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB workstation add-in board series, in two versions, liquid or air-cooled models. First announced back in mid- May, and bumped ...
Gotta talk about those stupid glasses
VR is doomed. VR is going to change the technology world AR and VR are not the same so why do we keep talking about them as if they are? There, that should get us ...
Apple’s road to GPU control: the challenges of vertical integration
There are basically two types of organizations in the computer and mobile industry, device makers who are, to the extent they can be, vertically integrated, and component or IP suppliers that offer their product or ...