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Nvidia buys The Portland Group

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Jon Peddie

Silicon is stupid without a good compiler. You all know CUDA is coming to mini Kepler, AKA Tegra, right? How ...

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Nvidia Quadro K6000 looks to set new marks for performance, capability and price

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GfxS staff

A whopping 12 gigabytes of on-board memory takes the K6000 where no single-board GPU has gone before. By Alex Herrera ...

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PTC says “we told you so” with so-so third quarter revenue results

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Randall Newton

Unexpected cutbacks in China make PTC even more accurate when it said June quarter results would be disappointing.   Three ...

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The coolest booth at Siggraph

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Randall Newton

Oculus is showing off the next version of its Rift virtual reality gaming goggles by appointment only. In a back ...

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SPEC updates NX benchmark

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GfxS staff

New version texts workstations running Windows 7 using NX 8.5. SPEC’s Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released updated ...

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Imagination Technologies CEO receives knighthood

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GfxS staff

Sir Hossein Yassaie honored for “services to technology and innovation.” Imagination Technologies Group plc. (LSE: IMG.L) Chief Executive Officer, Sir ...

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3D needs its Napster moment

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Randall Newton

The Khronos Group wants to do for 3D what formats like MP3 and JPEG did for audio and video. At ...

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Partnership enables 3D PDF for geological engineering

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Randall Newton

Complex environmental and geological models can now be viewed by anyone with a free PDF viewer. A new deal between ...

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Programming experts to explore mobile GPU advances

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Randall Newton

Led by Jon Peddie, the panel will describe how programmers can take full advantage of the latest GPU designs to ...

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Numecent launches “Native as a Service” cloudpaging platform.

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Randall Newton

Traditional desktop software becomes a cloud service while maintaining local storage. By Randall Newton Last year a well-funded startup called ...