Dassault is enjoying the benefits of its diversification strategy and its unbounded optimism. The company has had complete faith in its decades-long vision of a cloud-based integrated set of tools that reach all the way down to the consumer and up to corporate leaders and government agencies. They’re a long way towards realizing that vision, but the world is coming … Read more
The Perrinn Project 424 is an open-source race car project and a collaboration that includes OnShape, Simscale, and Migenius. (Source: Perrinn Project 424) Migenius, founded in 2010 by Paul Arden, was a pioneer company and one of the first to take advantage of the Mental Images’s cloud-based rendering technology RealityServer, which is based on iRay. Migenius took over packaging … Read more
AMD announced its Q4’20 revenue hit $3.24 billion, with an operating income of $570 million, and a net income of $1.78 billion. For the year 2020, the company reported revenue of $9.76 billion, operating income of $1.37 billion, and net income of $2.49 billion. “We significantly accelerated our business in 2020, delivering record annual revenue while expanding gross margin and … Read more
Shutterstock has announced the acquisition of TurboSquid for $75 million cash, and in a single stroke becomes the “world’s largest 3D marketplace.” This deal is a boon for Shutterstock. Turbosquid claims 1.9 million customers. In addition, Turbosquid’s content creators will have a larger pool of customers by joining Shutterstock. Shutter stock has expansion on its mind, last November, Shutterstock acquired … Read more
Fourth-quarter revenue was $20.0 billion, exceeding the company’s October guidance by $2.6 billion but down 1%-year-over-year (YoY). Full-year revenue set an all-time Intel record of $77.9 billion, up 8 % YoY. The company delivered impressive fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) of $1.42 ($1.52 on a non-GAAP basis, exceeding its October guidance by 42 cents). In 2020, Intel generated a record … Read more
Under some pressure from activist investment firm Third Point, Intel has announced plans to bring in Pat Gelsinger to be the company’s CEO. Gelsinger, who had successfully run EMC and then VMware, was previously at Intel as the SVP and GM of the Digital Enterprise Group. The irony that absolutely nobody has missed is that Gelsinger left Intel in 2009 … Read more
Qualcomm changes CEOs and buys CPU company Nuvia, Intel rehires Pat Gelsinger, Jim Keller takes over Canadian AI company, AMD announces Ryzen 5000 and the majority of gaming notebooks, Nvidia brings ray tracing to the masses with RTX3600, Dell and HP introduce massive monitors as well as 15- and 17-inch notebooks. Qualcomm and Nvidia announce they are the partner of … Read more
Didn’t it seem like we’d all be measuring playing fields, creating 3D objects, and making virtual 3D playgrounds out of our living rooms by now? Phones have 3D sensors, and now Apple has added Lidar, so why can’t we have these things? It’s here now and looks like a trend that will be happening in 2021. TikTok symbolically kicked it … Read more
Nvidia was founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, who used to be the director of CoreWare at LSI Logic, Chris Malachowsky, an electrical engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems, and Curtis Priem, previously a senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer at Sun Microsystems. They wanted to create a virtualized environment for all things IO (including Graphics) and … Read more
The number of “firsts” Sony has chalked up for TVs is too long to list. An important brand for over 50 years, Sony promises to amaze their customers, especially during CES time. For this virtual CES they rolled out the big boys. Not the biggest TV you’ve ever seen, but too big for your living room unless you’re Jeff Bezos. … Read more
Acer unveiled some new products in its Predator and Nitro portfolios with three gaming monitors. Additionally, the company said it is the first to deliver TÜV Rheinland Eyesafe-certified gaming monitors that emit less high-energy blue light than industry-standard monitors. The Predator XB273U NX 27-inch monitor has a WQHD (2560 x 1440) panel with a 275 Hz refresh rate (overclocked) and … Read more
Indisputably, 2020 was a big year for Bentley Systems and the third quarter a major milestone, as the company provided its financial results as a public company. The company is a big data company through and through, even before it knew it was a big data company. Visualizing and understanding trends and technology flows through the company’s DNA. It’s great … Read more
