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Taking control: Part 1 Controllers evolve with gamers

(Source: Reviewed)   Time changes all things, and video games are no exception. The gaming industry has been transforming ever since its inception, starting with simple pixels passing another pixel back and forth, to experiences ...

A380 is an Intel AIB, not an obsolete airplane

An A380 drops an A380 on China   Intel introduces Arc A380, its first (of three) desktop AIBs based on its Xe-HPG architecture. The A380 has 8 Xe-Cores, which is the full configuration of the ...

AMD has scale

AMD had an in-person and virtual analyst’s day event in beautiful Santa Clara and introduced their new lineup of senior staff, which now includes executives from Xilinx and Pensando. This was the first physical get-together ...

More human than ever

(Source: Epic Games)   A little over a year ago, Epic Games revolutionized the creation of realistic humans with its free MetaHuman Creator browser-based app, which reduced the time it takes to generate a photorealistic ...

An on-chip photonic deep neural network for image classification

(Source: Tima Miroshnichenko)   Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an optical chip that can process almost 1.7 billion images per second. It uses a neural network that processes visual information directly without ...

Apple em two et vous?

Now that your armpits and other areas have dried out from the excitement of Apple’s M1 Pro/Max announcements eight months ago, the company thought it was time to raise your heart rate again. Enter M2. ...

Intel announces intentions to launch a graphics add-in board

Intel recently held its Intel Extreme Masters conference in Dallas and showed (among things) a new graphics AIB. Intel says the Intel Arc Limited Edition AIB will feature the flagship Arc Alchemist Mobile (ACM)-G10 Alchemist ...

AMD extends the range of its mobile APUs

AMD said at Computex that it will launch its entry-level Ryzen and Athlon 7000 series APU mobile processors, code-named Mendocino, manufactured on TSMC’s 6 nm process. The highest version of Mendocino will have four Zen ...

Qualcomm’s wireless XR2 AR platform

Qualcomm has announced its latest milestone in making extended reality (XR) the next computing platform with the Wireless AR Smart Viewer reference design, powered by the Snapdragon XR2 Platform. The company says the cord-free reference ...

Chasing pixels into the multiverse of madness

For anyone with a Gandalfian perspective on the history of computer graphics, the notion that VR, or its blockier cousin, the metaverse, is going to be a really big thing may conjure up decades of ...

HP squeezes a GPU into its thinnest notebook

  HP has been making beautiful lightweight notebooks for a few years now. Introducing new colors, some trimmed with wood, and each new one lighter and thinner than the previous one. This time, they have ...

Nvidia leaves a ‘paper’ trail

Groundbreaking research has always been an important aspect of SIGGRAPH, as scientists and researchers present the latest industry advancements to conference-goers. The acceptance rate for presenting a technical paper at SIGGRAPH averages between 17%­–27%, following ...