PTC says 2021 is going to be just great
PTC notched a successful 2020, and the first half of its fiscal year 2021 is off the charts, and PTC execs are saying they’re right where they want to be. The company’s performance at the ...
Real men have transcoders, ask Google
Left H.264, right VPG—YouTube ASICS beat GP chips which beat software—it’s the law. When it comes to fixed-function operations like transcoding that’s especially true. The first transcoding work was done in software on the ...
V-Ray is integrated in Trimble SketchUp Studio
Trimble has once again rejiggered its SketchUp lineup and is creating a powerful design and visualization tool in SketchUp Studio, its top-of-the line option. The big news for SketchUp Studio is the integration of Chaos ...
AMD Q1 2021 results
AMD announced revenue for the first quarter of 2021 of $3.45 billion, operating income of $662 million, net income of $555 million. “Our business continued to accelerate in the first quarter driven by the best ...
Are PC sales headed for a crash?
The much welcomed and glorious reports of PC shipments encouraging as they may be, obviously can’t continue. The surge in sales, primarily due to commercial PCs, is from the provisioning home offices in reaction to ...
Nemetschek sees a bright future ahead
Nemetschek closed out its fiscal year at the end of March, meeting its targets after raising them before the year’s end, and predicts at least high single-digit growth with EBITA margin between 27% and 29%. ...
PTC adds AR and generative design to products in Atlas portfolio
Since its arrival in 2012, Onshape has been revolutionary in its commitment to pure SaaS for design. The company also demonstrated a willingness to innovate on the fly. Recognizing the challenge of bringing a new ...
Intel Q1 2021 results
First-quarter revenue exceeded Intel’s January guidance by $1.1 billion, said the company, led by continued strong PC demand. PC unit volumes were up 38% YoY, and notebook volumes set a new Intel record. The company also ...
Shapr3D continues breakneck pace of innovation
Shapr3D is a capable 3D modeler for engineers, designers, and hobbyists. The company has debuted its news version for the M1 Macs. (Source: Shapr3D) Shapr3D started out as a mobile-first product for CAD design ...
Autodesk introduces significant update to Flame
Apparently, Autodesk’s developers have not been waiting out the pandemic. In response to user requests and experiences during the pandemic, Autodesk has taken advantage of emerging technologies to add more than 40 improvements to Flame ...
AMD’s latest Adrenalin update puts the fun in functionality
With the latest Adrenalin release, AMD adds new controls for imaging, color, and cross-platform gaming. (Source: AMD) AMD has gotten into the cadence of releasing a Radeon driver every month and then hotfixes after ...
Khronos compresses texture maps for everyone
Over the years of computer graphics, stretching back to Ed Catmull’s pioneering 1974 paper that introduced the concept of subdivision, wrapping, and unwrapping, the CG industry has been trying to find ways to make texture ...