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IEEE—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers had a day

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering that was formed in January 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the ...

Siemens kicks off its future with XaaS

Xcelerator heads to the clouds. (Source: Cedar Fair Entertainment Company)   Big news on the big industry front: Xcelerator from Siemens Industry Solutions is going to the cloud. Why? Because it makes a really great ...

Autodesk’s fiscal 2022 second quarter is a winner and no surprises

Autodesk CFO Debbie Clifford described Autodesk’s financial results as strong, and that they were and that they have been. In his introductory comments, CEO Andrew Anagnost said the company offered its guidance at the start ...

MetaX to build GPUs, ASICs, and FPGAs

In September 2020, Chen Weiliang started MetaX (Mu Xi) Integrated Circuit Co. in the Pudong Lingang Special Area of Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone. At their founding, Weiliang said the company would develop artificial intelligence processors ...

Graphisoft updates and moves forward

Graphisoft tends to look outward to complement its in-house tools. Its wholehearted support of OpenBIM gives users choices. And over the last three years Graphisoft has opened up those choices with ongoing support for Rhino ...

Happy birthday PIXEL

 Image credit, JVC Creative Commons   On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when ...

Jingjia Micro JM9000 series GPUs

Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Jingjiawei, a Chinese GPU chip company (also known as Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co.—Jingjia Micro), announced in mid-September 2021 that its new-generation GPU had completed tape out and packaging phases. The product ...

HP makes working at home comfortable

According to some back-of-the-envelope calculations and other data, we estimate the average cost for a tech worker’s space and support facilities in an office is about $15,500 a year.¹ If you could have your employees and ...

Cinema 4D 25

Maxon’s new interface is cleaner, provides more room, and is easier to use for beginners, says the C4D developers.   As they were building this updated version of Cinema 4D, Maxon says they were thinking ...

Xiaomi Smart Glasses

(Source: Xiaomi) Xiaomi (pronounced show-me) announced their cleverly named Xiaomi Smart Glasses—the latest entry in new smart wearable devices. Xiaomi says their Smart Glasses (XSG) combine imaging systems and sensors into a subtle, ordinary glasses ...

‘Inside Covid-19’ brings home the virus’ effect

At Siggraph 2021, filmmakers Gary Yost and Adam Loften showed their piece Inside Covid-19, which tells the story of one man’s battle with Covid-19 as a doctor and as a patient. The documentary follows Emergency ...

FYR bug’s eye AR glasses

Traditional HMDs are bulky, power-hungry, and most of them fill only a small portion of the visual field with limited resolution. Those limitations plague every industry supplier and user in the AR and VR market, ...