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Adobe will be more compelling for professionals with the acquisition of Frame.io

Adobe agrees to acquire Frame.io   Adobe is adding some real power to its video product line with the acquisition of Frame.io, a cloud-based video company with over a million users. Like Adobe, Frame.io has ...

PTC’s third quarter beats expectations

There were no real surprises in PTC’s third-quarter announcement and no balls were knocked out of no parks but the company demonstrates the value of fast reflexes and strategic moves as well as the established ...

Khronos Group expands glTF

The ongoing evolution of glTF has turned into one of the major efforts of the Khronos Group and it has heightened awareness of Khronos. If you don’t know, Khronos is an open consortium of interested ...

Horizon Workrooms: Facebook travels down a well-worn path to failure

Facebook introduced Horizon Workrooms, its take on the metaverse and so far it seems to have had a very hard landing. It’s never a good sign when a technology introduction gets more attention in the mainstream ...

The Arc of the Alchemist

No, not a new Steve Winward song, a new GPU family   As you know, or should know, Intel has been up to their old trick of changing names and requiring you to get an ...

Nvidia’s Q2 FY22 results

May the Omniverse be with you (Source: Nvidia)   The company again reported record revenue gains. For the second quarter ended July 30, 2021, the company reported sales of $6.51 billion, up 68 percent from a ...

Intel architectural developments and plans

Intel revealed some of the details of their newest CPUs, a few tidbits of their Ponte Vecchio HPC GPU. They also mentioned their someday recently renamed consumer GPUs that are going to put AMD and ...

The Arc of the story—Intel brands its GPU

An Intel chip (maybe DG1). (source: Intel)   After years in the process, Intel has come up with several names for their proposed someday dGPUs. To tell the world about it, Intel’s marketing department shed ...

HP puts a spin on the Chrome-based PC

Two new Chrome-based devices from HP add styling and additional features to up the ante on the Chrome-based computers. (Source: HP)   Chromebooks have been gaining a steady edge in the PC’ish market since their ...

Jensen Huang to Receive Semiconductor Industry’s Top Honor

Thirty-one years ago the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) set up the Robert N. Noyce Award, the industry’s highest honor to recognize individuals for outstanding achievement and leadership in support of the semiconductor industry. Lumiaries like ...

HP Chromebase All-in-One

HP’s Chromebase. (Source: HP)   HP introduced their Chromebase 21.5-inch All-in-One Desktop and claims it is the world’s first Chromebase All-in-One with a rotating display The screen can tilt 20 degrees upwards and easily rotate ...

Blending into the Omniverse, Nvidia signs up new partners

What is the metaverse. (Source: Nvidia)   Nvidia announced a significant expansion of its Omniverse simulation and collaboration platform—through new integrations with Blender and Adobe. Omniverse is now available to potentially millions of more users. ...