Windows 11, <$1k, 15-inch 144 Hz HD Acer America announced the Aspire Vero notebook. The company says it is their first sustainability-focused product. It is one of Acer’s first products powered by Windows 11, is eco-friendly, EPEAT Silver-certified, which features post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic throughout the chassis and keyboard with 100% recyclable packaging. … [Read more...] about Germ-free ultrathin notebook from Acer
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The Arc of the story—Intel brands its GPU
It takes a village to tell a story, and this is a long story. After years in the process, Intel has come up with several names for their proposed someday dGPUs. To tell the world about it, Intel’s marketing department shed a little of the spotlight on some of the troops who are valiantly struggling to fulfill Raja Koduri’s promise. A group of them made a video you can … [Read more...] about The Arc of the story—Intel brands its GPU
GDWC adds student competition
Students and independent developers are encouraged to sign up and show their stuff. The GDWC, or Game Development World Championships, is a Finnish-based organization founded in 2016. They don’t talk much about themselves, but the organization takes on the mighty task of running an ongoing competition for game developers who can submit their entries throughout the … [Read more...] about GDWC adds student competition
PC gaming hardware market set to recover from supply problems
High-end PC gaming hardware segment 5-year forecast 20.38% CAGR from 2020. Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, has released its newest gaming market study regarding the PC Gaming Hardware Market, which consists of personal computers, upgrades, and peripherals used for gaming. The PC gaming hardware market both … [Read more...] about PC gaming hardware market set to recover from supply problems
Nvidia’s Q1 FY22 results
The company’s revenue is $5.66 billion, up 84% from a year earlier, profit up 109% to $1.9 billion. Nvidia the company that makes the most sought-after GPUs, reported an 84% increase in sales last quarter. The company reported record revenue for the first quarter ended May 2, 2021, of $5.66 billion, up 84 percent from a year earlier and up 13 percent from the previous … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q1 FY22 results
GTC news: Realtime ray tracing for work and play comes closer
As a rule, game technology doesn’t get much play at GTC, Nvidia’s technology conference. The company gets enough of that all year round. After this year, we don’t think there’ll be much confusion about what kind of company Nvidia is. It’s a technology company with interests in almost every compute platform: edge, mobile, consoles, PCs, workstations, HPC, the data center, cloud, … [Read more...] about GTC news: Realtime ray tracing for work and play comes closer
Unity announces 4Q and 2020 results; revenues up 43% for the year
The company hopes to get close to a billion in revenue for 2021. Unity had a pretty good Covid year. The company went private in September 2020. The share price surged 30% over its IPO price giving it a value of $20 billion. The company raised more than $1.3 billion in the IPO. In its annual report for 2020, Unity says they’ve had record results, which is sort of an … [Read more...] about Unity announces 4Q and 2020 results; revenues up 43% for the year
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
Creating realistic digital hair and fur remains a challenge for game developers
EA group Frostbite introduces their Strand approach to realistic hair. It’s scary to think of all the things needed to render hair. Hair. We all have it, some more than others. Regardless, it never behaves. We cut, color it, weave and wave it, shellac it, grease and shine it—some even iron it. And still, it just doesn’t look right. If it looks bad and unruly in real life, … [Read more...] about Creating realistic digital hair and fur remains a challenge for game developers
Nvidia’s RTX 3060
Little brother to 3060 Ti Nvidia cites gamers playing Watch Dogs 2 with high settings realizing 60 fps with a GeForce GTX 1060, but with Watch Dogs: Legion (released last October), they only get 24 fps. And with ray tracing turned on, the game becomes unplayable on the GTX 1060. The GTX 1060 also lacks the latest enhancements and features of newer GPUs.Nvidia’s GeForce … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s RTX 3060