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Khronos compresses texture maps for everyone

Over the years of computer graphics, stretching back to Ed Catmull’s pioneering 1974 paper that introduced the concept of subdivision, wrapping, and unwrapping, the CG industry has been trying to find ways to make texture ...

GTC news: Realtime ray tracing for work and play comes closer

As a rule, game technology doesn’t get much play at GTC, Nvidia’s technology conference. The company gets enough of that all year round. After this year, we don’t think there’ll be much confusion about what ...

Nvidia will offer DGX mini-supercomputers for rent

During their GTC 2021 online event, Mr. Manuvir Das, Head of enterprise computing at Nvidia, announced that the new DGX Station A100 and DGX SuperPod mini-super computers will be available on a rental basis as ...

Nvidia’s pro-graphics and data center AIBs

At Nvidia’s Graphics Technology Conference (GTS 2021), the company announced eight new Ampere GPU-based AUB for next-generation laptops, desktops, and servers. For desktops, the new Nvidia RTX A5000 and Nvidia RTX A4000 AIBs join the ...

HP Zs for a new world

Workstations have proved their mettle during the pandemic—sometimes by their absence. People, who have had to relinquish their powerful computers to work on home computers, have found out how much the workstation’s power, processing, and ...

The new Maxon emerges with a C4D update, new look, and new plans

Maxon’s sleek new logo is designed to be more inclusive as the company grows. (Source: Maxon)    Maxon held its annual press event for new updates and products right around the traditional NAB time frame ...

Nvidia embodies bigLITTLE

If Nvidia is successful in acquiring Arm (and maybe even if they aren’t), Nvidia has some mighty big and small plans for, with, and of Arm. When Nvidia announced it intended to acquire Arm (see ...

Boxx offers Flexx’able work at home workstation

At Nvidia’s GPU technical conference (GTC) Boxx held sessions to show how the performance of a desktop workstation in a rack-mounted, high-density form factor, they call Flexx enables organizations to accelerate workflows onsite or remotely. ...

Autodesk closes out a successful fiscal 2021 widens its ambitions

Autodesk says it has made good progress toward digitizing AEC, advancing its design and manufacture workflow, and pushing into the Enterprise. One of Autodesk’s key fundraising strategies is to convert “non-compliant users” into paying customers ...

Unreal elaborates on its automotive ambitions—they’re big

Unreal is staking out more ground in the Metaverse as they see it during their Unreal Build Automotive Event, which, of course, this year was virtual. Unreal has been pitching the automotive industry with Build ...

PTC’s financial report for Q1 2021 is a cause for optimism

PTC was one of the busiest companies in the design and engineering segment through 2020, and that’s saying something after a year of shutdown and buildup. CEO Jim Heppelmann said, “Fiscal 2021 is off to ...

Shanghai Tianshu Intellectual Semiconductor Big Island

In January, we reported the announcement by Shanghai Tianshu Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co. about their plans to design, build, and deploy a GPU intended for GPU-compute. The company described it as a GPGPU accelerator for AI, ...