Intel’s wonderful Flex AIBs
(Source: Intel) A few weeks ago, Intel rebranded the Artic Sound-M data center GPU as the Flex series. The first products introduced are the Flex Series 170 and 140—how wonderful is that? The name change ...
Who anticipated that 8K will be illegal?
(Source: Samsung) Viewers crave resolution. After all, who wouldn’t prefer watching their favorite film or TV series in 8K if given the choice. Well, those in the EU may not have that choice come March ...
Nvidia announces another blockbuster GPU—Ada Lovelace
This week (#38 of the year), Nvidia dominated the news with their GTC announcements. Top among them was the introduction of the long-awaited and rumored RTX 40 series and associated AD100 series GPUs known as ...
Game day will have a new look for Texas Longhorns
Alienware has provided UT Austin with an esports lounge and will help construct an arena for the next school year. (Source: UT Austin) Esports have exploded in popularity during the past decade. The prize pool ...
Lenovo gets personal with its new display
Lenovo Glasses T1, a personal display that fits in your pocket. They can even be worn over prescription eyewear. (Source: Lenovo) Lenovo has screens of varying sizes, from those on its tablets to its ThinkVision ...
The era of ‘who cares’ computing
Microsoft’s Game Pass, a big play in the young game subscription market. (Source: Microsoft) What happens when people start to find out that you can do the same work on a lower-cost hardware platform as ...
Meta partners with Qualcomm in a multi-generational VR agreement
The Meta Quest 2 is powered by Qualcomm’s chipsets. The partnership between the two companies is going to continue for the next few Meta product generations. (Source: Qualcomm) Meta and Qualcomm have just announced a ...
SPEC updates benchmark for Solidworks
The benchmark measures application performance for workstations running Solidworks 2022. (Source: SPEC) The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) today, September 15, has released the SPECapc for Solidworks 2022 benchmark, an add-in benchmark for performance desktops ...
Mobile gaming companies join O3DF
Established in July 2021, the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) is an umbrella open-source organization under the Linux Foundation that will house multiple open-source projects and pool resources among the member community to sustain these projects. ...
Canon fires off new set of offerings
Canon’s new XA60 is one of four new professional camcorders that will be available soon. (Source: Canon) Canon had a busy time last week at IBC as they introduced not one but five 4K camcorders, ...
GPUs change the engineering simulation landscape
Since the start of the year, Jon Peddie Research has been conducting a series of interviews with leading CAE software vendors such as Altair, Ansys, Dassault Systèmes, Hexagon, and Siemens Digital Industries Software. We’ve been ...
The US seeks a more balanced scale in global semiconductor production
(Source: Amazon) It often takes a crisis or near crisis to draw attention to a situation that has been unchecked for some time. Supply shortages across the board during Covid shed light on the dangers ...