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SiliconArts released its ray tracing accelerator core to the Intel Solutions Marketplace

Source: SiliconArts   SiliconArts is releasing a dedicated ray-tracing accelerator core into the Intel Solutions Marketplace. As an Intel Partner Alliance (IPA) Gold Member, SiliconArts is expanding its support for FPGA design services to incorporate ...

Dassault Systèmes turns in a drama-free second quarter

Dassault Systèmes was pleased enough by the company’s performance in the second quarter of 2021 that the company has raised guidance for the year. It was a quarter that met expectations all around. In his ...

Bentley and Seequent expand subsurface geomodelling portfolio

Last March, Bentley Systems acquired Seequent in a billion-dollar deal that certainly impressed us. At the time Bentley, Seequent, and its partners in the deal Accel-KKR said the deal would be accretive. And it clearly ...

AMD Radeon Pro W6000X RDNA2 GPUs for Mac Pro

Mac Pro driving three screens. (Source: Apple)   AMD tied two of its new RDNA 2 GPU together with its Infinity Cache and made the Radeon Pro W6000X, a custom AIB series for Apple. AMD ...

HP acquires Teradici; promises expanded virtualization capabilities

Founded in a garage in Palo Alto, HP has fixed up the place since then. (Source: HP)   HP has spent the last several years quizzing its customers, analysts, and investors about the future of ...

Researchers at Baylor University developed new 6P color imaging system

Baylor University researchers at Baylor’s Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) recently announced results of three years of research into exploring the creation of a wider color gamut. They claim the new color imaging system has ...

Moore’s Law decline: the short and the long, the incremental and the revolutionary

In the literal sense, Moore’s Law—long a definition and quantification of the down-scaling of the silicon-integrated transistor area and cost—has slowed or ended, depending on how strictly one interprets the definition. But, Moore’s Law is not the point, ...

Adobe cuddles up with Blender with new plug-ins for Substance and Mixamo

The wishlist for the Substance development team at Adobe is deep and long, but since its acquisition, they’ve been ticking requests off the list. The latest updates include the long-awaited Blender plug-in for Substance and ...

Intel enters the age of the ångström

Intel has received a lot of criticism about losing its cadence in semiconductor node steps. Part of the criticism was over naming the features used for defining a node. Should it be the width of ...

The Genie that makes entertainment great

 Leonardo Chiariglione Every time you watch a video or listen to music on your phone, computer, or TV, you use a data compressor-decompressor called a CODEC. By compressing the data representing the content you’re interested ...

AMD Q2 2021 results

AMD announced revenue of $3.85 billion for the second quarter of 2021, operating income of $924 million, net income of $710 million. “Our business performed exceptionally well in the second quarter as revenue and operating ...

New expansion moves by game engine duopoly

There is plenty of room to argue how Unity and Unreal compete with each other and the discussion is pretty interesting. Unity grew with the help of independent developers working in mobile and that's a ...