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PTC’s strategy holds up for Q3 2020

There is no doubt some industry people sighed in relief when PTC's third-quarter financial results came in above guidance. In design and engineering, people are looking at this quarter as an indicator of what the year ...

Architects demand more from Revit and from Autodesk

Source: energepic.com   The open letter to Autodesk landed on the desks of editors, analysts, and interested observers with a thud—if a digital letter could land on a digital desk at all. The letter, signed ...

Autodesk further expands its construction portfolio

The Union Project in Oakland California is nearing completion. Holliday Development and Factory OS were able to stack the five floors on site in 10 days. The components of the building were built in a ...

What if Intel bought Arm?

Early this week I was asked what I thought about Nvidia buying Arm, it seems an almost foregone conclusion by the web that it would since Bloomberg and the Financial Times presumably independently confirmed the ...

Dassault Systèmes has very good second quarter

Dassault’s diversity continues to serve the company well. Like all companies, Dassault is seeing some of its segments suffer as the Coronavirus shuts down businesses and production. The company’s traditional business in PLM is hitting ...

AMD Q2 2020 results

AMD’s first quarter was up from Q1 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter due to ...

XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos

The headline is:  Khronos announced multiple conformant implementations of OpenXR are shipping from Oculus and Microsoft. That happened because of the newly opened OpenXR 1.0 Adopters Program and open-source conformance tests, which Khronos announced was ...

Microsoft’s Peggy Johnson joins Magic Leap as CEO

Peggy Johnson takes the controls of Magic Leap. (Source: Peggy Johnson’s Twitter profile)   Magic Leap is a company that stirs passion—good and bad. The company was among the many companies that appeared over the ...

Latest round of Epic MegaGrants reward imagination and real-world connection

The latest batch of winners in Epic’s ongoing MegaGrants program includes games, a couple of which break the mold but most intriguingly technology companies that are pushing on the walls of game engine technology to ...

What if what if?

One rumor, one report, three results The story put out by Bloomberg was that Nvidia may be bidding to buy some or all of Arm from Softbank. That is such a delicious rumor-speculation I just ...

Intel Q2’2020 results

The new normal is not normal, and may not be again for a long time. Q2 which has traditionally been a down quarter was up for Intel year-to-year, and flat quarter-to-quarter. But Q3 is being ...

Nvidia’s super AIB powers Florida supercomputer HiPerGator

University of Florida HiPerGator The University of Florida announced a public-private partnership with Nvidia to build the fastest AI supercomputer in academia capable of 700 petaflops AI performance. The University says the new computer will ...