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Crypto-mining’s half a billion dollar impact on AIB sales

Source: Stefen Chow IEEE Spectrum   Anyone interested in graphics add-in boards (AIBs) knows the supply has gone to zero and the prices have hit the stratosphere. But why? There are several possibilities, but most of ...

AMD 3D cache breakthrough

(Source: AMD)   During AMD’s CEO Lisa Su’s Computex keynote presentation, the rightfully proud president revealed AMD’s new secret weapon for improved performance of the company’s Zen processors. With TSMC’s help, AMD will bond the ...

Katerra Kaput

Katerra spent big to realize its vision of a vertically integrated design construction powerhouse. Unfortunately, it wasn’t able to see it through. (Source: Katerra)   Katerra, founded in 2015 by former Flextronics CEO Michael Marks ...

Siemens Realize Live 2021

Siemens’ annual conference, Realize Live, served this year to enable Siemens Industrial Executives to communicate with users on a broad range of fronts.  Siemens Industry Solutions CEO Tony Hemmelgarn talked about Siemens's role in an ...

Collaborating around the Campfire with augmented reality

One of the first companies to help develop AR was Qualcomm. In 2008, Jay Wright initiated and led a Qualcomm team to create an SDK of AR tools, libraries, and demos. The group’s work got ...

Bentley Systems’ announces first quarter revenues

Bentley Systems announced its revenue for its first quarter of 2021 which ended on March 31. In his opening remarks during his call to investors, CEO Greg Bentley warned them not to make generalizations about ...

Acer unveils SpatialLabs on ConceptD notebook

Acer has launched its SpatialLabs developer’s program for Unreal Engine developers. It was unveiled on a ConceptD notebook, and combines an eye-tracking stereo camera, a stereoscopic 3D display, and realtime rendering technologies to give creators ...

Nvidia’s Q1 FY22 results

  Nvidia, the company that makes the most sought-after GPUs, reported an 84% increase in sales last quarter.  The company reported record revenue for the first quarter ended May 2, 2021, of $5.66 billion, up 84 ...

The new Arm Mali GPUs and Armv9 architecture

Last year, Arm introduced its Cortex-X1, claiming to have kickstarted the evolution of computing performance. Now they’ve followed that up with the firm’s first Total Compute solutions. Arm says it will provide three pillars of ...

Qualcomm’s NUC-like dev system

Qualcomm gave their first showing of a Chrome-killer thin & light, always-on, always-connected 13-inch notebook at their developer’s conference in 2017. It looked like a winner then. Lenovo, HP, Acer, and others signed up to ...

Cesium opens more doors for Unreal into AEC

The arrival of the Cesium for Unreal plug-in is fairly recent. It was announced last March and became officially available in April 2021, but the ability to work with large geospatial models in the Unreal ...

Graphisoft joins the Omniverse community

In its first implementations, Omniverse is most useful for enabling designers to create renderings of their work. (Source: Nvidia’s Graphisoft Connector Site)    The future is in the ‘verse and Graphisoft has opened its own door into ...