Nvidia GTX1080Ti runs best on AMD
28% more performance for 35% more money The Nvidia GeForce GTX1080Ti is the world’s most powerful AIB, when run on an AMD Ryzen-based platform it gets the highest scores, but the greatest gains from generation ...
LightSpace back with volumetric display
Third try is a charm—this is hard stuff Some long-time readers may remember the volumetric display developed by LightSpace Technologies. The company never found a solid market for its product and went out of business. ...
Apple breaks up with IMG
The Apple of my eye turns black and blue Imagination Technologies started working with Apple before the iPhone was introduced in June 2007. Samsung was the fab Apple chose to build their first SoC and ...
PC market dynamics
And the dynamic trackers thereof The PC market, as measured in unit shipments has been declining for the past six years or more. Several firms seek to measure it from time to time, but Gartner ...
AMD wants you back
Two years is long enough, get a new AIB now If you are a gamer with a midrange or entry-level old AIB, or a budget constraint, AMD has a new AIB for you. According to ...
Imagination Technologies ray tracer for 360-VR videos
You can make more beautiful, and faster Imagination Technologies introduced their real-time, hardware accelerated ray tracing engine in late 2012, after their acquisition of Caustic in 2010. It went by the name of Power VR ...
Sony’s new tablet is really a tablet
Tablet size, tablet writing, just add batteries When Apple introduced the tablet in 2010, it was a 7.5-inch slab that people derided as being an over-sized phone, and to a large extent they were right. ...
Imagination Technologies enters the midrange
Imagination Technologies has owned the high-end non-Qualcomm-based smartphone GPU segment since the beginning, but until now hadn’t paid much attention to the low-end, leaving that segment to ARM—till now. Imagination just announced a new family ...
Allegorithmic Launches Substance Designer 6
Targeting new markets First the news: at GDC Allegorithmic of France released its latest version of Substance Designer 6. A major part of this release is the increased ability to create HDR textures. Dr. Sébastien ...
Up close and personal
I’m seeing more than I want to, or maybe not enough Our eyes are just too damn good. Too good for the VR and AR displays we can afford and are able to build today. ...
Adoption and capabilities grows for Vulkan
Soon one API will be all that’s needed for any OS, application or platform Celebrating a successful first year, the Vulkan API developed by Khronos is gaining tremendous momentum in high-fidelity gaming with support appearing ...
AMD’s GDC Capsaicin event unveils Radeon Rx Vega
AMD has been doling out news with a big ladle these days. The company is riding on its new line of CPUs, Ryzen and its upcoming Vega graphics processor, which is no longer code named ...