Will AI obsolete game engines?
Forty years ago, PAC-MAN appeared in arcades in Japan and munched a path to global stardom. Now the retro classic has been reborn and delivered courtesy of AI. Trained on 50,000 episodes of the game, ...
Nvidia’s massive Ampere GPU
Nvidia has been pushing the envelope on graphics chips since it integrated the geometry processor and pixel shader into one chip and called it a GPU, 21 years ago. The potential for GPUs then vastly ...
Imagination’s Chinese connection collaboration continues
UK-based GPU designer Imagination Technologies has been in the news of late over a riff with its owner Canyon Bridge Partners, a Chinese government-backed VC firm that bought Imagination in 2017. The disagreement, which caused ...
Trimble reports first quarter 2020
Trimble’s results for the first quarter of 2020 look almost as if nothing has happened; it looks like a reasonable first quarter for the company. The company has relatively little business in China, so they ...
A mini platform from Intel: the NUC
From a strategic standpoint, Intel is intentionally not in the business of making money from selling systems. And for good reason, as doing so — at least on any kind of consistent basis —would alienate ...
Zixi and Vimond IO team up for live video editing
Zixi, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, offers a cloud-based video distribution platform, or, as they call it, a software-defined video platform (SDVP). The company is partnering with Vimond IO, which provides an online collaborative environment for ...
PTC sails through its fiscal Q2 ’20 with increased revenues and ARR
PTC reported revenues for the quarter ending March 28, 2020, and were optimistic, if guarded. The company’s revenues for PTC second fiscal quarter of 2020 were up 24% at $360 million compared to $356 million. ...
Will AMD get lucky with Radeon Pro VII
AMD was one of the first consumer graphics companies to enter the professional graphics space in 1994 (Matrox being the first in 1987). Naturally, ATI with its economy of scale took a commanding lead in ...
Intel’s GPU could bruise AMD and Nvidia 5 ways
It’s no longer if, but when Intel will reveal its consumer-class discrete GPU (dGPU) family. And when it does, it will initially have a negative impact on the incumbent PC dGPU suppliers AMD and Nvidia. ...
Hexagon interim report from 1 January to 31 March 2020
Hexagon’s first-quarter report for 2020 is reasonably upbeat for a company situated smack dab in the crossed eyes of several hurricanes. The company, with metrology in its DNA, interests in oil and gas, mining, and ...
Augmented reality and coronavirus
Spot checks of people at major interfaces such as transportation centers is a critically important aspect of measuring the spread, or decline in the pandemic. Augmented reality is a perfect application for making observations. The ...
Qualcomm upgrades the Snapdragon 765 to a G
In a specification free news announcement, Qualcomm has introduced a new Snapdragon SoC, the 768G. We have found out that the CPU has one core at 2.8 GHz, another at 2.4 GHz, plus six others ...