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NAB forms Web3 National Advisory Council

Maintaining an eye as to what’s on the horizon for media, entertainment, and technology professionals, NAB Show has formed a National Advisory Council that will focus on issues pertaining to Web3, what many are calling ...

Intel announces Xe-based A-series GPU for notebooks

In late March 2022, Intel officially announced the availability of its first Xe discrete GPU (dGPU) within the first generation of dGPUs, the Arc series for the desktop and notebooks. The first-generation dGPUs were known ...

AIB prices are finally trending down—slightly

Graphics add-in board (AIB) prices, which were at historic highs in Q2 of 2021 before starting to stabilize in Q4, are now experiencing a drop. The factors contributing to the price hikes of AIBs were ...

Nvidia adds to its game development toolbox

(Source: Nvidia)   Like Earth and Mars coming into alignment, this year had the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) occurring simultaneously. The result of this convergence: Nvidia announcements and product ...

Lenovo’s latest ‘value’ workstations

Lenovo is growing its family of entry-level desktop workstations with the ThinkStation P360 and Tiny, which are geared for users who work with clock-speed-driven 3D applications, such as engineers and designers, as well as data ...

Nvidia’s Hopper data center GPU

Nvidia introduced their long-anticipated Hopper GPU with startling compute results—the chip is actually more of a compute engine than a GPU per se. Nvidia is claiming a 6X improvement over the previous-generation Ampere. Of that ...

Nvidia announces Omniverse Cloud

If you are not using Nvidia’s Omniverse, Nvidia sure wants you to. Omniverse is Nvidia’s multi-GPU-enabled open platform for real-time 3D design collaboration and virtual world simulation used by artists, designers, and creators. It is ...

Two sides of the chip business

Imagination Technologies’ business is taking off, resulting in a hiring boom. (Source: Imagination Technologies)   Coming off a strong 2021, Imagination Technologies is expecting to carry that momentum into this year and has announced plans ...

AMD, the software company

Back in 2015, AMD introduced Radeon Software as a successor to its Catalyst Control Center. It was the company’s primary graphics control panel and allowed users to adjust various settings related to their AIB. During ...

The transformation of CFD: GPUs go to work on hard problems

(Source: Siemens)   Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is a powerful tool for design and is used extensively for automotive, aeronautic, and marine design where air and water flows are vital to the performance of ...

Epigraph brings Ace Hardware into the AR age

You’ve seen stories about people visualizing a sofa from Ikea in their living room, but what about more prosaic and sometimes awkward and esoteric things like a 40-foot ladder, a barbecue grill, or a riding ...

Scott Reese says good-bye to Autodesk

After 19 years at Autodesk, Scott Reese, executive vice president in charge of product development and manufacturing solutions, left the company last month to assume the position of CEO at GE Digital.  At Autodesk, Reese ...