Nemetschek is optimistic about 2021
As companies in design and engineering are turning in their second and third quarters for the year, it’s been fascinating to see how fortunes have changed. Nemetschek, like many companies in AEC, took an early ...
Qualcomm and others exploit Wi-Fi gaming
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect ...
IEEE—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers had a day
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering that was formed in January 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the ...
Siemens kicks off its future with XaaS
Xcelerator heads to the clouds. (Source: Cedar Fair Entertainment Company) Big news on the big industry front: Xcelerator from Siemens Industry Solutions is going to the cloud. Why? Because it makes a really great ...
Autodesk’s fiscal 2022 second quarter is a winner and no surprises
Autodesk CFO Debbie Clifford described Autodesk’s financial results as strong, and that they were and that they have been. In his introductory comments, CEO Andrew Anagnost said the company offered its guidance at the start ...
MetaX to build GPUs, ASICs, and FPGAs
In September 2020, Chen Weiliang started MetaX (Mu Xi) Integrated Circuit Co. in the Pudong Lingang Special Area of Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone. At their founding, Weiliang said the company would develop artificial intelligence processors ...
Graphisoft updates and moves forward
Graphisoft tends to look outward to complement its in-house tools. Its wholehearted support of OpenBIM gives users choices. And over the last three years Graphisoft has opened up those choices with ongoing support for Rhino ...
Happy birthday PIXEL
Image credit, JVC Creative Commons On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when ...
Jingjia Micro JM9000 series GPUs
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Jingjiawei, a Chinese GPU chip company (also known as Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co.—Jingjia Micro), announced in mid-September 2021 that its new-generation GPU had completed tape out and packaging phases. The product ...
HP makes working at home comfortable
According to some back-of-the-envelope calculations and other data, we estimate the average cost for a tech worker’s space and support facilities in an office is about $15,500 a year.¹ If you could have your employees and ...
Cinema 4D 25
Maxon’s new interface is cleaner, provides more room, and is easier to use for beginners, says the C4D developers. As they were building this updated version of Cinema 4D, Maxon says they were thinking ...
Xiaomi Smart Glasses
(Source: Xiaomi) Xiaomi (pronounced show-me) announced their cleverly named Xiaomi Smart Glasses—the latest entry in new smart wearable devices. Xiaomi says their Smart Glasses (XSG) combine imaging systems and sensors into a subtle, ordinary glasses ...