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Dassault Systèmes reports third quarter 2020

Dassault’s financial has been able to raise its revenues in a tough time, but only because it bought Medidata, specifically a life sciences company involved in drug testing right before the onset of a global ...

KFC is a PC, not a console

Just in time for the holidays—because that’s when this bubbled up, the KFConsole has arrived via the Coolermaster site. No, you didn’t know you needed a gaming machine to warm your chicken while you play, ...

Nemetschek Brand Spacewell acquires Dexma

Spacewell, a subsidiary of the Nemetschek group based in Antwerp, Belgium has acquired Dexma, a provider of SaaS products that use AI and machine learning for energy management. Based in Barcelona, the company is working ...

PTC gets SaaS PLM with the acquisition of Arena

PTC announced plans to acquire SaaS PLM company, Arena Solutions of Foster City, for $715 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in PTC’s fiscal Q2 2021. In the announcement, PTC CEO Jim ...

The rays of Khronos reach everywhere

(Source: Stack overflow)   In 2018, before there were pandemics, vicious nation-splitting election campaigns, and the biggest GPU ever, a small group of ray-loving engineers got together to save the world. In early 2018, the Vulkan ...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 678 for entertainment experiences

Qualcomm Technologies just announced its Snapdragon 678 Mobile Platform, a follow-on to the Snapdragon 675 introduced in 2018. The new chip, says Qualcomm, will deliver overall performance upgrades, high-speed connections for sophisticated photo and video ...

A new year, a new GPU from Bolt

A start-up in Silicon-Valley has an idea for a new type of super high-performance GPU, targeted at the data-center. The group at Bolt has completed their first round of funding and is looking for savvy ...

Autodesk Q3 results show continued gains

It’s not news to anyone that cloud-based workflows are booming, but it’s good news for Autodesk that its customers are buying into SaaS models. In addition to riseing revenues, the company says it’s becoming more ...

New coin rush?

When AMD and Nvidia introduced their new AIBs in Q4 2020, they sold out immediately. No one anticipated the demand and attributed it to bots. Gamers complained that once again, they got left out. The ...

Graphisoft releases new update for Archicad 24

Graphisoft is turning the crank and getting updates when they’re ready rather than waiting for full release packages as has been the practice across the professional software world. This summer, Graphisoft released Archicad 24 as ...

What’s driving GPU sales—COVID, games, or Crypto?

  We’ve been tracking GPU and before that graphics controller shipments for decades, and we think we have a sense of their trends and seasonal behavior. Most recently, our Market Watch report for Q3 2020 ...

Qualcomm’s 888 5G 668 GPU

At Qualcomm’s 2020 Snapdragon Tech Summit, the company introduced its flagship Snapdragon 888 5G SoC. The company hopes it will set the benchmark for flagship smartphones in 2021. The new SoC integrates 5G along with ...