Nvidia RTX 3070 fills a niche
It is amusing to a long time follower of this industry, to describe a midrange AIB that sells for $500 as not too expensive, but that’s how the average selling prices have moved led by Nvidia. Nvidia ...
Microsoft Office 365 Phones – A competitor to normal PSTN phones?
Microsoft recently introduced their new Microsoft 365 Phone System, also called the Office 365 Phone System, under the 365 Business Voice License. It is a telephony product that works with Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, ...
PTC reports end of year results
PTC had a good fourth quarter and a not-bad year considering. PTC’s revenues are up year over year, quarter over quarter and the company says the pipeline into 2021 is looking pretty good. All this ...
Adobe, C3.ai, and Microsoft team up to advance CRM
At Adobe Max and Adobe’s Summit earlier this year, CEO Shantanu Narayen reaffirmed the company’s close alliance with Microsoft to build its digital experience platform. After Adobe Max, the two giants announced the addition of ...
Intel’s discrete GPU
(Source: Clker-Free-Vector-Images) Intel has been laying the groundwork for its new, Xe line of discrete GPUs (dGPU). The company has a long history in graphics, determined this time to avoid past mistakes. Intel has ...
PTC and Rockwell Automation expand their strategic alliance
PTC and Rockwell Automation signed a strategic alliance in 2018 to jointly sell their products for PLM, SaaS, factory automation, IoT, virtual machinery simulation, and testing software. At that time, the deal was sealed with ...
Shapr3D: the little iPad product with very big ideas
Shapr3D is getting a lot of press lately and the company has big plans. The five-year-old company has developed a “mobile-first” 3D CAD tool for conceptualization, 3D printing, and MCAD. Actually, right now it is ...
AMD announces RX6800 and RX6800XT
AMD was rightfully proud of its RDNA-based RX5000 series AIBs. They won awards, benchmarks, and quite a few customers. But that was April 2018, and the product line only spanned from low-end to midrange. Enter ...
AMD to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion
AMD announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. The combination, says AMD, will create the industry’s leading high-performance computing company. AMD believes it ...
AMD Q3 2020 results
AMD’s third-quarter was up from Q2 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $2.8 billion, up 57% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was 148% quarter-over-quarter and up 225% year-to-year. ...
Quibi shuts down; bye bye
Quibi arrived in April 2020 just a few short months ago, back when we all climbed into our shelters for a long summer’s nap. The company was headed by moguls Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, ...
Unity sets up to win
Unity went public mid-September 2020 with the ticker symbol “U”. Now, the company has new cash in its pockets and promises to keep. Unity is now on a building streak. The company introduced its shares at ...