Lenovo builds a better ThinkPad
“On the go” best describes the work lives of today’s artists, engineers, and designers. One day they might be at the office, the next working from home, at the airport, or at a customer’s site. ...
GPUs: How did we get here?
Today’s GPUs are capable of amazing things, and as a processor type, have found their way into almost every imaginable electronics device—from cars to rockets, from TVs to smartphones, and of course game consoles and ...
Spatial continues to expand on a ‘kernel’ of an idea
There is a group of companies and organizations that operate largely under the radar, and if it were not for them, we would not have the kind of progress in CAD software we have seen ...
Siemens’ next steps for the cloud
At Siemens’ recent Media and Analyst Conference held in Detroit in early April, President and CEO, Digital Industries Software Tony Hemmelgarn said their rollout of Xcelerator as a Service is gaining momentum and broadening its ...
The little green men left and took their PCs with them
You remember a year ago when the headlines read: PC shipments show continued strength in Q1 2021 despite component shortages? Here at JPR, we scratched out heads and said, “Continued strength? Huh? Did a million ...
Autodesk Flame burns up the cloud
(Source: Autodesk) Artists using Autodesk’s Flame Family of products are no longer tied to an on-premise workflow with the latest update to Flame, Flare, and Flame Assist that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). ...
Samsung gets stylish with its Smart Monitor series
Samsung Electronics got colorful with its latest Smart Monitor series, the M8, which features an upgraded, stylish design. The versatile new M8 has Samsung’s iconic slim design (though about three-quarters slimmer than the previous models) ...
The long view on LCDs vs. OLEDs
A couple of friends, well versed in the technology and graphics industries, recently expressed surprise when I mentioned the withdrawal of Samsung from the LCD business. We had an email exchange, and I thought I'd ...
GPUs, they’re everywhere…, just not for you
The GPU shortage persists in spite of reports that there is a product available and that MSRPs are dropping. That may be true, but unfortunately, the path to the consumer is not a straight line ...
Moore Threads comes out
Founded in October 2020 in Haidian, Beijing, China, the 80-employee company Moore Threads has introduced three AIBs—the MTT S10, MTT S2000, and just recently, the MTT S60 gaming AIB. The company had announced at its ...
E3 canceled for 2022
It’s not an April Fool’s Day joke. There will be no E3 show this year. And no one is laughing. Organized by the Entertainment Software Industry (ESA), The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or as some started ...
Gaming at 8k for $2k
This is not an April Fools’ Day joke—at least I don’t think it is. Nvidia officially launched the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU powered by Ampere—Nvidia’s 2nd gen RTX architecture. It features a record-breaking ...