Autodesk keeps its head in the clouds with Informed Design
Free add-on version for Revit and another for Inventor connects design and manufacturing workflows to streamline work with customizable, pre-defined building products.
Microsoft unveils custom AI accelerator series, Azure Maia, and in-house CPU series, Azure Cobalt
First custom silicon shows new strategic direction for Microsoft.
Imagination re-enters PC market with high-performance DirectX GPU IP line
IMG DXD is a scalable GPU IP for desktop, laptop, and cloud gaming.
Cloud-rendering companies consummate relationship following marriage
Conductor cloud rendering service can now be used with CoreWeave cloud.
How far will legacy take the PC industry?
The shift to the cloud is a declining asymptote for the PC.
Autodesk announces Flow for M&E
Autodesk’s Flow, an industrial cloud Autodesk is developing for M&E. (Source: Autodesk) Some may look at the annual Autodesk University as a conference for AEC, architecture, and manufacturing. And it is. But, there’s also a focus on the company’s “other” business: media and entertainment. Here, Autodesk announced Flow, a new industry cloud for M&E that will connect user workflows, … Read more
Intel’s Arctic Sound-M Flex Series AIBs
With the explosive growth in cloud compute workload and complexity, new segments are bringing unique workloads that require processing pixels, inference, analytics, rendering, and sending those pixels back to the client device to be viewed or for further analysis. These tasks are currently being done by separate discrete products in the cloud, and Intel hopes to integrate them in one … Read more
Autodesk takes aim at the factory
Once upon a time, the way the world worked in manufacture seemed pretty clear: the big engines of China and nearby smaller countries pumped out low-cost products. Consumers in the west bought whole bunches of the low-cost products and then sent them back to Asia to recycle. It was efficient, if not particularly equitable, or sustainable. Meanwhile, software vendors in … Read more
Adobe Express for everybody else
Adobe has introduced a new collection of cloud-based tools to enable anyone to create a quick multimedia something. Adobe suggests banners, flyers, logos, etc. In other words, prepare to see more plain old posts gussied up with baked content in your feeds. Anyone can do it: Adobe Creative Cloud makes the job of content creation easier. (Source: JPR) Adobe packaged … Read more
Frame.io introduces Camera to Cloud
Frame.io offers an established set of cloud-based video and review services. The company is upping the ante with the introduction of Camera to Cloud (C2C) a set of new capabilities, devices, and services that accelerates the production process from capture to finish.
Blackbird signs up Univision
Blackbird’s cloud-based video editing and distribution tools are designed to enable fast turnaround from capture to broadcast. The company is announcing a multi-year deal with Univision, the leading Spanish-language media and content company in the United States for large-scale video production. Univision selected Blackbird to enable efficient video production across its streaming and digital media operations. The companies say Univision’s … Read more
New stuff in video from Adobe
Adobe’s latest release adds new features for Audition and Premiere Pro along with the usual enhancements for performance and improved collaboration. These are cross-platform improvements. Adobe has been phasing in support for Apple’s M1 machines so we’re also seeing more of these. Adobe now says Premiere Pro, Audition, and Premiere Rush have full native support for M1. The company says … Read more