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Gaming market continues to buoy graphics chips vendors

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GfxS staff

All three leading vendors saw third quarter shipments increase sharply from last quarter. All three major computer graphics chips vendors ...

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WorldViz previews virtual reality design review platform

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Randall Newton

Codenamed Skofield, the cloud-based application is targeting aerospace, automotive, and architecture. Virtual reality (VR) applications developer WorldViz has introduced a ...

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The balance of power in gaming

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Jon Peddie

  X86 is a major platform of choice By Jon Peddie   The gaming hardware market is huge, and bewildering ...

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BricsCAD update puts BIM and MCAD in a familiar container

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Randall Newton

Bricsys is betting CAD users want to keep using .dwg data and drafting workflows while taking advantage of 3D advances. ...

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Siemens to buy Mentor Graphics for $4.5 billion

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Randall Newton

The industrial giant will add Mentor to its existing PLM division. The price was 21% higher than last Friday’s stock ...

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Siemens takes ownership stake in Bentley via strategic alliance

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Randall Newton

Siemens is acquiring €70 million in Bentley secondary stock as part of the wide-ranging technology development plan. The two have ...

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Moore’s law is not dead

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Jon Peddie

Lawrence Berkeley Lab reveals semiconductor research resulting in the first transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate.

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Allegorithmic adds materials library to Substance Painter

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Randall Newton

Substance Source is a physically based materials library of customizable assets. The Substance line of 3D texture authoring software tools ...

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Trimble debuts SketchUp Viewer for Microsoft HoloLens

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Randall Newton

Microsoft bills HoloLens as a “mixed reality” portal suitable for a new approach to design review. Trimble has announced a ...

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Ansys acquires systems safety analysis company

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Randall Newton

KPIT Medini is a respected specialist safety analysis whose products are integrated into solutions from many vendors. Engineering simulation software ...