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Fujitsu Arm-based supercomputer is number one

The Fugaku logo   What do Apple and Fujitsu have in common? They’re both building expensive computers using Arm processors. Fujitsu has been working with Riken, Japan's largest and oldest private research institution (established in ...

Supercomputers—who gives a rat’s patootie

The Krell supercomputer (1956)   There’s 500 of them!  Five hundred. Do I really give a hoot? If I told you, there are five hundred top baseball players, think you’ve given a… after I named ...

Adobe Photoshop Camera

Adobe demonstrated Photoshop Camera at Adobe Max last year in Los Angeles, which seems like about 4 years ago. And, at the time, it seemed like Photoshop Camera was just another cute little phone app ...

Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P mobile workstations

Lenovo has launched the next generation of the ThinkPad P Series: the ThinkPad P15, ThinkPad P17, ThinkPad P1 Gen 3, and the new ThinkPad P15v. In addition, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 will also ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 3000XT processors

AMD continues to expand its popular Ryzen processor line on the desktop. The company has just announced three pin-compatible products with boost frequencies as high as 4.7 GHz, targeted at the enthusiast community. To make ...

AMD notebook APUs and their dGPUs

  AMD has been making steady gains with its APU line of CPUs and integrated GPUs (iGPUs). We have found 131 SKUs based on APUs Since 2017. That in itself is impressive. What’s additionally interesting ...

Consumer AR could have saved lives and economy

(Source: Tamara Bellis)   If any of you have attended any of my augmented reality lectures or read my book, you know I am an enthusiastic advocate of what I call consumer AR—AR glasses that ...

Blackbird video: online editing for a new age

One of the breakout stars of the NAB-that-never-was is Blackbird plc. The company offers a cloud video editing platform enabling live or file-based video editing and sells itself on its speed, scalability, quality of editing ...

PTC’s new normal will embrace remote workflows

The face of the new normal is coming in more clearly. PTC has wrapped up its first all-virtual LiveWorx conference, and we’ve gotten a look into quite a few East Coast homes. We also got ...

Intel launches hybrid notebook processor

Two and half years ago at an Intel Architecture Day event, Intel revealed its 3D packaging interconnect concept it call Foveros. It sounded intriguing then, but Intel didn’t have much more to say about afterwards. ...

Cesium update: Mapping the world and playing with it

The latest update to the Cesium SaaS platform is a global layer of the world’s 3D buildings. In addition, Cesium collaborates with Epic to make geospatial data available within Unreal Engine.   Cesium, as we ...

Is Unity going public?

Game engine company Unity Technologies is flirting with the idea of going public, which could happen with an Initial Public Offer (IPO) this fall. The company has been testing the waters and is reported to ...