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Intel announces intentions to launch a graphics add-in board

Intel recently held its Intel Extreme Masters conference in Dallas and showed (among things) a new graphics AIB. Intel says the Intel Arc Limited Edition AIB will feature the flagship Arc Alchemist Mobile (ACM)-G10 Alchemist ...

AMD extends the range of its mobile APUs

AMD said at Computex that it will launch its entry-level Ryzen and Athlon 7000 series APU mobile processors, code-named Mendocino, manufactured on TSMC’s 6 nm process. The highest version of Mendocino will have four Zen ...

Qualcomm’s wireless XR2 AR platform

Qualcomm has announced its latest milestone in making extended reality (XR) the next computing platform with the Wireless AR Smart Viewer reference design, powered by the Snapdragon XR2 Platform. The company says the cord-free reference ...

Chasing pixels into the multiverse of madness

For anyone with a Gandalfian perspective on the history of computer graphics, the notion that VR, or its blockier cousin, the metaverse, is going to be a really big thing may conjure up decades of ...

HP squeezes a GPU into its thinnest notebook

  HP has been making beautiful lightweight notebooks for a few years now. Introducing new colors, some trimmed with wood, and each new one lighter and thinner than the previous one. This time, they have ...

Nvidia leaves a ‘paper’ trail

Groundbreaking research has always been an important aspect of SIGGRAPH, as scientists and researchers present the latest industry advancements to conference-goers. The acceptance rate for presenting a technical paper at SIGGRAPH averages between 17%­–27%, following ...

Nvidia Q1 FY23 results

Nvidia reported record revenue for the first quarter, ended May 1, 2022, of $8.29 billion, up 46% from a year ago and up 8% from the previous quarter, with record revenue in Data Center and ...

Nvidia virtually at Computex

In a marathon virtual presentation, several Nvidia executives gave talks about their products and opportunities. It was a great view of the company and all the things it is involved in. The scope and range ...

Compact AR display uses Trixel 3 LBS projector

TriLite, based in Vienna, Austria, and founded in 2011, has developed the Trixel 3, which the company claims is the world’s smallest projection display. But the projector is only part of the solution; you need ...

Tiling tensor cores superscales video at Imagination

Imagination Technologies marries its Tensor Tiling technology with Visidon’s AI algorithms to achieve fast, economical video scaling. (Source: Imagination Technologies)   Superscaling, as it is referred to now, is not a new idea or technique. ...

AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 is a game changer

FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.0 technology is AMD’s brand-new, open-source temporal upscaling solution. It employs temporal algorithms to reconstruct fine geometric and texture detail, producing anti-aliased output from aliased input. FSR 2.0, says AMD, has ...

Acer refreshes its SpatialLabs S3D display

Acer announced its stereovision S3D capability last year and launched the 15.6-inch ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop targeted at visual artists and engineers. The $4,100 laptop didn’t set the world on fire and fell into ...