Arm says future Mali GPU will do ray tracing
During the Arm V9 announcement, one of the slides shown on the Mali GPU listed new features of Arm’s plans for Mali. Arm said that ray tracing and variable-rate shading, now available in the PC ...
Intel’s 11-gen i5 and i9 Rocket Lake CPUs
Intel introduced its 11th generation Core i processors with its new 750 Iris X UHD graphics. Intel announced a full lineup of processors from the X-series Enthusiasts CPUs to the base i3. Intel is touting ...
After a great 2020, Adobe says stars aligned for 2021
Adobe’s first quarter ended March 5, 2021, and the company says it is seeing plenty of more growth throughout the year. In fact, after the company’s cheerful assessment of the quarter, it also raised its ...
Arm Reveals First New Architecture in a Decade—all data will go through Arm
Arm showed its first new architecture in a decade at its recent one-day virtual conference. Arm introduces their v9 design and provided their macro view of future semiconductor development. As it turns out, from Arm’s ...
Bentley Systems registers drop in EPC during pandemic
The company performance was just about right on the nose as far as the company’s expectations and those of their investors; but, it’s easy to get the impression that as 2020 was unfolding over Bentley ...
Famous Graphics Chips: ATI’s Radeon 8500
The Radeon 8500 AIB launched by ATI in August 2001 used a 150-nm manufacturing process, for its R200 (codename, Chaplin) GPU. The AIB worked with DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 APIs. The R200 introduced several new ...
USD gets major support from Autodesk and partners
This week, Autodesk announces its latest updates for Maya, 3ds Max, and MotionBuilder. In addition, Autodesk says it’s supporting USD, the Open Source format originally developed by Pixar with strong industry support from customers and ...
CorelDraw gets significant new upgrade including perspective
Corel, a venerable player in vector graphics, has signaled a reset by rolling out the latest version of the software with an introduction by the CEO Christa Quarles who took over the reins at Corel. ...
Nvidia’s GeForce Now increases subscribers
In 2020, Nvidia “onboarded” and released an average of 10 games a week. With a new express onboarding pipeline, Nvidia said their goal is to increase that by about half by the year's end. The ...
Vivo’s new IQOO Neo 5 is going to amaze you
Pixelworks has been building video co-processors and offering IP solutions for mobile devices for some time now. The company is an acknowledged leader in the field and knows how to squeeze zillions of colors out ...
Unity announces 4Q and 2020 results; revenues up 43% for the year
Unity had a pretty good Covid year. The company went private in September 2020. The share price surged 30% over its IPO price giving it a value of $20 billion. The company raised more than ...
AMD’s Zen 3, the sound of 64 cores clapping
AMD has generously and broadly used the designation Zen to describe various CPUs in their product line. The company’s latest offering in their server derby race is its 7nm Milan, the successor to the Rome ...