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Nvidia’s Q4 FY17 results

$1.93 billion in sales, $507 million profit down 23% Nvidia’s revenue was down 11% from last quarter and up 48% from last year, GAAP profits decreased 23% compared to last quarter, but were up a ...

Boom times or end times all at the same time

We’re all peering at the news between our fingers fascinated and terrified by what’s likely to jump out of the stomach of the collective psyche. It used to be that working in tech seemed to ...

Stop that or I’ll replace you with an AI

Look at what you’re doing, not what the AIs are doing Everyone who has heard of AI (which as you know was just invented a few weeks ago) is sounding the warning bells about how ...

AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo

11.5 TFLOPS and 11 billion triangles/second  AMD has taken two WX 7100s and combined them into one AIB. The GPUs have 16 GB of GDDR5 each, and run two separate apps, or can be combined ...

Intel updates its Visual Compute Accelerator

Bigger, better, faster Intel introduced the three-chip Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) quietly in Q4’15. It was equipped with a 3.5 GHz Xeon E3-1200 v4 series processor with 6 MB cache and Iris Pro Graphics, plus ...

Scary computing

As computers make more decisions for us; who will be there to question their choices? In my constant search for knowledge, which is best undertaken when deadlines loom, I found an interesting news story published ...

Virtual reality solutions from BIMobject for visualizing construction projects

BIMobject VR and BIMobject AR will help users visualize their construction projects using information from BIMobject Cloud. At the AIA Conference 2017 in Orlando, Florida, BIMobject revealed two virtual reality solutions for manufacturers of construction ...

Fujitsu releases six new enterprise PC and tablet models

Notebook, desktop, and table workstation and commercial products Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Client Computing announced the release of six new enterprise models across six product series. The new models are being rolled out in stages ...

Adobe Creative Cloud for video

Latest updates focus on video tools with new capabilities in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, motion graphics, live animation, and audio. Adobe has revealed a major update for video tools in its Creative Cloud solution, meant ...

The VPU market is expanding fast

AR, VR, autonomous driving, and AI are demanding better vision Visual processing units (VPUs) are at the crossroads of image-processing, convolutional neural nets (CNN), machine intelligence, and the emerging augmented reality market. More than just ...

PTC holding the course and sticking to its story

PTC says it is happy with the way its current strategy is going. The company is transitioning its customer base to subscription, which will smooth out the company’s revenues and it is building new business ...

AMD Q4 2016 results

$984 million in sales, $73 million GAAP loss for the quarter, sales and profits down from last quarter AMD reported its calendar Q1 2017, revenues of $984 billion, an operating income (GAAP) loss of $29 ...