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Siemens teams with VSI Labs to develop validation and testing

VSI Labs Capability Demonstrator (Source: VSI)   Siemens has signed an important deal for its PAVE360 development platform for automotive design. PAVE360 is a system of systems, in the same way, that a car is ...

Nvidia to buy Arm

In 2009 rumors started about the possibility of Nvidia acquiring AMD to give Nvidia a CPU capability. In 2011 Jensen Huang settled the subject decisively when he said, Arm is our CPU. Nine years later ...

Testing Nvidia RTX 3080

Nvidia’s RTX3080 in box presentation    PC Benchmarking got started back in the mid-to-late 1980s when PC clones became abundant. Of course, they weren’t perfect clones, they had their own variations and features and to ...

Famous graphics chips—multi GPUs

When 3D graphics controllers were just immerging in the late 1990s, one company in particular, 3Dfx, experimented with ways to scale up the performance of accelerating the 3D gameplay. Their idea was scan-line interleave (SLI), ...

Don’t worry about NAB until October 2021

In an open letter to the community, NAB president and CEO Gordon Smith announced that NAB will be delayed until October 9-13, 2021  in Las Vegas. Smith said that through his research, talking to potential ...

Maxon rolls out C4D R23 and Maxon One

Maxon has been making the most of its pandemic. The company’s engineers have been hunkered down and developing. The company’s development teams for Redshift and Red Giant are putting out new releases and according to ...

DeepFaceDrawing AI turns a sketch into realistic human face image

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the City University of Hong Kong have developed a deep learning-based solution for sketch-to-image translation. The team presented their technical paper (requires login) at Siggraph 2020 that ...

Famous Graphics Chips: Geometry Engine

Although not really a graphics chip in that it directly manipulated any pixels, the Geometry Engine introduced in 1981 was a breakthrough in VLSI of critical mathematics functions used for graphics. The Geometry Engine was ...

Apple recognizes 8 companies with design awards

Apple has announced the 2020 winners of its annual design awards. The Apple Design highlight applications that excel in design and innovation in apps and games. This year eight companies have won with applications representing ...

Autodesk says we told you so; Q2 revenues are strong

Autodesk’s second-quarter revenues for fiscal 2021 were absolutely on course for the company underlining several points: the resilience of the subscription model, the ongoing progress of Autodesk’s revamped licensing plan, and the relative powerlessness of ...

Pixelworks’ AI-based video processor

San Jose based Pixelworks is announcing the i6 processor, its sixth generation mobile visual processor, and the first with low-power AI tech (built on the Company’s mobile display datasets). AI comes into place to adaptively ...

Intel launches EVO

After months of leaks, rumors, and speculation, Intel formally and officially released the details of its 11-generation processor, code-named Tiger Lake. The processor leverages Intel’s SuperFin 10 nm process and introduces Intel’s first integrated Iris ...