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GPUs change the engineering simulation landscape

Since the start of the year, Jon Peddie Research has been conducting a series of interviews with leading CAE software vendors such as Altair, Ansys, Dassault Systèmes, Hexagon, and Siemens Digital Industries Software. We’ve been ...

The US seeks a more balanced scale in global semiconductor production

(Source: Amazon) It often takes a crisis or near crisis to draw attention to a situation that has been unchecked for some time. Supply shortages across the board during Covid shed light on the dangers ...

Autodesk offers its toolset to a wider audience with Maya Creative

(Source: Autodesk and Gabriel Richaud) Used throughout many major film and game studios, Autodesk’s Maya is the software behind a plethora of stunning visuals in leading-edge projects. Since it was introduced in 1998, Maya has ...

Adobe continues march to the cloud

Aside from C2C integrations, Adobe added enhancements to After Effects and Premiere Pro, including fast access to titling tools in Premiere Pro. Adobe has spent a good deal of work enabling new cloud-based workflows, and ...

What’s in a name? Maxon gets us thinking about 2023

(Source: Vladislav Solovjov) For those in the Northern Hemisphere, autumn is still a few weeks away, but Maxon is already stepping into the next year, branding most of its products receiving a fall 2022 update ...

8K TV is going to develop

At the time of this writing, I’ve already been at IFA 2022 for a couple of days (the show ran from September 2–6 in Berlin). I have been in the Samsung Innovation room, where the ...

Tinycade can turn your old cardboard boxes into a DIY arcade cabinet

Lightcycles is one of the first three Tinycade games. Inspired by TRON, players sit next to each other and try to be the last lightbike standing. (Source: ACME Lab) Arcade games are expensive to get ...

AMD gets ‘Zen’ at recent media presentation

AMD just announced the long-awaited news: Their newest CPUs are finally coming to the market. This first set of Zen 4 CPUs will be the 7950X, the 7900X, the 7700X, and the 7600X. The prices ...

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 ...

The future of 3D: Metaverse

There is no metaverse—there will never be a metaverse. There are dozens of metaverses and soon probably hundreds. Which view you hold depends on the definition of what a metaverse is, and we repeat: There ...

Curved monitor? Certainly! How much would you like?

Recently, Corsair, the specialist in memory and gaming hardware, revealed a new OLED monitor with a bit of a different take. It got me thinking about curved displays, a topic I haven’t covered for a ...

The hottest chips conference

This was the 34th year of the Hot Chips conference, which has traditionally been presented in Silicon Valley during August. The name “Hot” is a play on words for the weather and the performance of ...