Design of new machines shows influence of the WFH year. The spring refresh continues as PC companies show new designs with an awareness of the changing boundaries between work and life and IT. The most recent addition to the lineup is HP’s new EliteOne 800 All-in-One (AiO). This one is designed for home or office, but its snazzy features such as presence awareness, an … [Read more...] about HP revisits the AiO for hybrid work environments
Khronos standardizes texture compression in KTX 2.0
The democratization of the texture zoo means textures take up less space and can be automatically uncompressed at runtime. 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 mapping faster and more efficient … [Read more...] about Khronos standardizes texture compression in KTX 2.0
AMD’s latest Adrenalin update puts the fun in functionality
The latest update is feature packed. AMD has gotten into the cadence of releasing a Radeon driver every month and then hotfixes after users have a chance to de-bug them, but these days there is minimal fuss. The company has delivered on their promise of driver stability. The latest release updated their Anti-Lag and Boost for high framerate, low latency gaming, and as … [Read more...] about AMD’s latest Adrenalin update puts the fun in functionality
Boxx enlists cloud resources for Flexx WFH system
Remote Workstation relies on new Nvidia A5000s combined with dense server. 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. Boxx featured Nvidia’s new A5000 workstation AIB and used … [Read more...] about Boxx enlists cloud resources for Flexx WFH system
What’s Arm up to? Anything you want to throw at it
Tackling the next 300 billion devices from the IoT up to supercomputers. 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 perspective, Arm devices will control the world. All data will either be generated, … [Read more...] about What’s Arm up to? Anything you want to throw at it
Unreal elaborates on its automotive ambitions—they’re big—Metaverse big
The company demo’d the virtual production technology currently being used in car ads that live up to the tradition of high-gloss paint jobs and unnatural nature shots and promise a future of digital twins. 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 … [Read more...] about Unreal elaborates on its automotive ambitions—they’re big—Metaverse big
Future game programmers are MADE
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment is preparing them. The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment—the MADE was founded in 2011 by Alex Handy and is the first dedicated, playable videogame museum in the US. The museum got started when Handy realized old game consoles and games were being thrown out. He feared that era of gaming would be lost and set out to gather … [Read more...] about Future game programmers are MADE
AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors
AMD continues its takeover of the notebook space. AMD introduced its Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The new processors are designed for premium business laptops and include AMD’s hardware-based Pro technologies for enterprise-class security features. The chips were announced with two significant design wins, one from HP … [Read more...] about AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors
Nvidia Omniverse—A new way to create
A special white paper by Jon Peddie Research on Nvidia's Omniverse. In May 2020, Nvidia announced USD would be the foundation for its Omniverse, a live collaborative platform that connects a wide variety of content creation tools to each other and to the company’s real-time Nvidia RTX ray tracer. Nvidia says it has expanded upon USD by developing new tools, integrating … [Read more...] about Nvidia Omniverse—A new way to create
Nvidia’s Q4 FY21 results
$5.03 billion in sales, $1.46 billion profit—sales up 6% from last quarter. Nvidia reported record revenue for the fourth quarter ended 31 Jan 2021, of $5 billion, up 61% from $3.1 billion a year earlier, and up 6% from $4.7 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $3 billion, up 10% from last quarter and up 47% from last … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q4 FY21 results