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Intel’s long-anticipated entry into the graphics add-in board market has arrived

  With the release of ASRock’s Challenger ITX Arc A380-based add-in board, it looks like Intel’s foray back into the discreet graphics industry has finally arrived. ASRock’s new Challenger ITX 6GB board is listed on ...

What’s ‘next’ in expanding the industrial metaverse?

Nextspace and Nvidia are partnering to bring Nextspace’s platform into Omniverse. Digital twins built on Nextspace can adapt to multiple data formats and sources, and they can easily be transitioned to new teams as the ...

Glenfly Arise GT-10C0 AIB

Founded in 2020, Glenfly Technology Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, and has developed AMOLED driver products. In 2021, the company announced it would offer a graphics AIB based on a forthcoming dGPU by ...

Well, folks, Siggraph 2022’s a wrap

At Siggraph, the annual conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques, showgoers love to tell fellow attendees how many Siggraphs they have attended and which was their first. For me, it was Orlando, ...

So, what is it going to take to deliver all-day wearable AR glasses?

AR glasses have to be as comfortable to wear as regular eyeglasses or sunglasses. (Source: eBay)   A few weeks ago, I spotted an interesting article on the long-form “medium” platform from Avi Bar-Zeev. He's been at Disney, ...

Intel benchmarks the Arc A750 against an RTX 3060

Intel has made a lot of blunders rolling out their long-awaited dGPUs and subsequent AIBs. And you still can’t really buy one. But, they have just released some fascinating DX12 and Vulkan benchmarks (they ran) ...

SPEC’s latest WS graphics benchmark

  At Siggraph 2022 in Vancouver, SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) announced the release of its SPECviewperf 2020 v3.1 graphics benchmark. This is a significant update to its industry-standard software for measuring graphics performance when ...

Biren Technology introduces GPU-compute chip

Zhang Wen, founder, chairman, and CEO of Biren Technology   Founded in Shanghai in 2019, Biren Technology also known as Biling Technology, counts some of China’s leading venture funds and government agencies as backers and raised ...

Intel’s GPU lineup (we think)

Ever since Intel announced it was entering the dGPU race, there has been speculation, opinion, leaks, and rumors about what the elephant in the room might look or be like. Intel didn’t make the guessing ...

Whose metaverse is it anyway?

Siggraph 2022, set in Vancouver and virtually, was filled with the usual array of beautiful and amazing images, startling new developments in processors and displays, and a myriad of other CG wonderment, in other words, ...

Khronos joins the ASWF

We may think of Siggraph as a showcase for splashy movie effects, showy content creation apps, video software, and video graphics pioneers—and it is—but off in the side rooms, over drinks and again with coffee, ...

Nvidia Siggraph keynote

Nvidia is aligning itself with the metaverse and positioning its Omniverse as the foundation for building a metaverse. It has introduced new AI tools and greatly expanded the partners and participants in its Omniverse, and ...