AMD’s Q3’22 results
Revenue down 15%, profits up 48%, forecast down 1.1% Q-Q
DaVinci Resolve for iPad
Post-production tools for a new generation.
The improved RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver
Older AMD AIBs run software ray tracing even better.
The Internet Archive isn’t just old websites
In the 1990s, Kathleen Maher ran Cadence magazine and, as a result, had boxes full of all the issues spanning a decade. Cadence captured the developing CAD-on-PC market shift, all new products, company introductions, mergers and ...
Intel Q3 2022 financial results
A lot of inventory. Q3’22 was a tough quarter for all semiconductor companies, including Intel. The company’s Q3 revenue was flat sequentially and modestly below the midpoint of its guidance. In June, Intel was ...
Happy haunting, Muppets style
The Muppets Haunted Mansion was made using virtual production techniques. (Source: The Walt Disney Company) What’s Halloween without a healthy dose of spookiness? And, what’s a Halloween show without a heavy dose of frightfully ...
Working better together
From the Adobe Max keynote. When you have exciting updates, you want to share them with the world. Sure, you can do it remotely, as Adobe and others had done during the height of ...
Adobe’s integrated strategy
Whether you attended Adobe’s 2022 Max or not, it’s clear that the company’s product line continues to expand. But just as designers no longer operate in silos, the company doesn’t believe its tools should, ...
Dell gets rugged with a change in Latitude
The newest in the rugged line improved on the ergonomics of the last design, increasing its productivity out in the field. (Source: Dell) Dell recently unveiled their sleek new Latitude 7230 Rugged Extreme tablet. ...
Basemark introduced platform agnostic ray-tracing benchmark
In March 2022, Basemark announced their Vulkan-based ray-tracing benchmark called GPUScore. GPUScore supports all modern graphics APIs, such as Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX, and operating systems such as Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. Basemark ...
3D of Substance
Substance Modeler. (Source: Adobe) At Adobe Max 2022, Adobe came through on its promise to advance Adobe Substance 3D, its portfolio of 3D content creation tools, by releasing a series of key new features ...
Intel’s XeSS is agnostic, but is it asymmetric?
At Intel’s Architecture Day in August 2021, the company announced it would include with the forthcoming GPU an AI-based upscaling capability called XeSS that was similar to Nvidia’s DLSS. Not only that, but it would ...