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Graphics chip shipments up 5.5% on Intel gains

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Randall Newton

Sequentially the market grew 2.5%, predicting slight growth ahead for PC market. Graphics chip shipments were up 5.5% in the ...

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Luxion debuts 3D web technologies at Siggraph

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Randall Newton

KeyShot extended with Web service rendering and 3D interactive web display. Rendering technology expert Luxion introduced two new 3D web ...

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Haiku Deck reinvents presentation software for the iPad era

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Randall Newton

The first business idea failed, but it had a great pitch deck, so the team refocused on presentations.   New ...

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Caustic brings interactive ray tracing to Maya

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Randall Newton

Caustic Visualizer allows high fidelity views at the earliest project stages. A Rhino version already exists and a 3ds Max ...

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Georgia Tech opens door to boneless CG characters

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GfxS staff

Animation technology relies on a skeletal framework inside characters; creating animated blobs is difficult for more than a few frames. ...

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Saudi Aramco partner standardizes on Aveva Net for engineering document management

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Randall Newton

The oil giant and its construction partner are establishing a digital information hub, starting with deployment on a new refinery ...

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China Joy 2012 reveals a game industry struggling to change and innovate

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Kathleen Maher

The market is rapidly growing but barriers to innovation loom at every turn. By Kathleen Maher The 10-year-old China Joy ...

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Review: Eyefinity for FirePro drives six high-definition displays

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GfxS staff

Payback in productivity goes beyond raw graphics power. By Tom Lansford [Editor’s note: Tom Lansford is Editor of CADplace.fr, a ...

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EADS signs master agreement with Ansys

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Randall Newton

The deal covers all divisions of the aerospace giant, best known for its Airbus commercial airliners. Global aerospace firm EADS, ...

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PTC to acquire service automation expert Servigistics

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Randall Newton

PTC will pay $200 million for the Atlanta-based firm. The goal is to harness network effects to turn services from ...