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Come Fusion and come Sandy Bridge … the discrete GPU will continue to live on
New hybrid chipsets from Intel and AMD are aimed squarely at taking market share away from Nvidia and its powerful ...
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Power and Potential: GPUs for Engineering Simulation
Engineering simulation and analysis is getting a major hardware upgrade, due to the rise of general purpose graphics processing units. ...
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New JPR Report: Understanding the new generation of embedded graphics processors
Jon Peddie Research has just published “Opportunities, Threats, and Changes Created by the Embedded Graphics Processors.” The once-unthinkable marriage of ...
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The Era of Democratized Visualization Has Begun
The cost of professional visualization has plummeted and the value skyrocketed. Jon Peddie predicts a resurgence in the visualization market, ...
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Review: Lenovo ThinkPad W701 Is the Road Warrior’s Mobile Workstation
By Alex Herrera Senior Analyst, Jon Peddie Research Calpella is Intel’s sixth-generation Centrino platform for mobile CPU. Originally scheduled to ...
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SolidWorks Decision Highlights Competitive Angst Between Luxology and Mental Images
The latest release of SolidWorks dumps PhotoWorks, based on Mental Images technology, for PhotoView 360, based on Luxology technology. Contributing ...
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CAD Moves to New Platforms, Expands Its Territory
We are moving into a new era of computing. But exactly how Cloud-based computing will affect CAD and related technologies ...
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Mental Images Teams with Penguin for Cloud Computing
If you haven't gotten around to building a server farm, you might want to look into Penguin's new POD (Penguin on Demand). As a hint of how customers might use POD, Nvidia's RealityServer 3D is now available on POD for remote rendering, visualization, and collaboration.
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Bunkspeed Shot debuts as first Iray end-user application
On July 26, Bunkspeed released Shot, an application for making realistic renderings quickly. It’s the first end-user application of mental images Iray interactive realistic rendering technology. Mental images became a subsidiary of graphics-chip maker Nvidia in December 2007.
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Procedural Partners with ESRI and NVIDIA on 3D Cities in the Cloud
GIS is one of the coolest technologies in the world. It could be argued that its base concept—tying visual data ...
