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RTT Excite lives up to its name
May. 17 | More than a rendering company, RTT now offers a variety of visualization technologies. By Jon Peddie RTT, the visualization company in Munich, Germany, held its fourth RTT Excite conference, and it has become a must-attend event. This year more than 1,000...
AMD claims new HD7990 graphics board is the world’s fastest
May. 9 | Bundled with well-known games to attract its target market. AMD’s new Dual GPU Radeon HD7990 AIB. (Source: AMD) By Jon Peddie Just to make sure you have the latest games that can exploit their newest graphics add-in board (AIB), AMD is offering a...
Dell introduces XPS 18 all-in-one computer
Apr. 8 | Is it a notebook computer or a really big tablet? Dell says its XPS 18 has a number of competitive and industry firsts that set a new standard for all-in-one computers. Weighing just 4.85 pounds (with optional SDD), the XPS 18 is less than half the...
Nvidia Wave Works not recommended for those who need Dramamine
Apr. 3 | Modeling the Beauford Scale of wind speed and its effect on the ocean in real-time physics. At GTC I thought I was going to be sick—it was nothing but rocking and rolling. The water was pitching, and spraying, and the boat was going up and down and...
The larger your screen, the longer you stay
Mar. 28 | New research from Adobe casts doubt on the demise of the desktop PC. Who wants to carry around a screen big enough to do real work? By Jon Peddie The amazement over the popularity of tablets has become a major interest of ethno- and cultural anthropologists,...
The pen is mightier than the finger
Feb. 22 | Re-visiting N-trig tablet pens and the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet By Jon Peddie Of all the tablets we’ve tested (and certainly not all that are in the market), one of my favorites is the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet. One reason I like it is because it has excellent...
Early thoughts on Sony’s PS4 unveiling: the company’s processor choices give them the edge
Feb. 21 | Sony held a press conference in New York City to provide some new detail for their next gen PS4 code-named Orbis. The new machines will use processor cores similar to PC processors making the porting process easier and pushing the performance ahead of...
Computer graphics changed our lives and the course of history; can it save the PC?
Feb. 19 | The history of computer graphics is part of America’s legacy of invention and innovation. Yet, the enthusiasm for lightweight computing platforms like tablets is reducing the demand for high-end processors across the computer industry. What does...
8Tree delivers single-purpose FastCheck 3D scanner
Feb. 12 | 3D scanning is combined with augmented reality to provide instant analysis of fuselage rivets. Started just a year ago by former TI Digital Light Processing (DLP) manager Arun Chhabra in Colorado and photonics expert Erik Klaas in Germany, 8tree is bringing...
