Khronos Releases COLLADA 1.5.0 Specification

The Khronos™ Group is pleased to announce that it has released the new COLLADA™ 1.5.0 specification, which includes significant new functionality to further broaden the applicability of this leading standard for 3D digital asset exchange. The expanded functionality includes B-reps (boundary representations) and kinematics for CAD, automation, and interactive entertainment applications, and georeferencing of geospatial assets for GIS and mapping software. Read more...

Jon Peddie explores - Why not Larrabee?

Larrabee is not a GPU as many have mistakenly described it, but it can do most graphics functions, Intel says it can do all, we’ll have to wait for proof. Right now its slide-ware, but development systems are supposed to become available in November. The question is, in my mind at least, is there room in the market for a third major player in discrete graphics? Read more...

Overall GPU Market dropped 0.5% from Q1’2008: Jon Peddie Research

Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the second calendar quarter of 2008. Traditionally, the second quarter is seasonally down in the computer industry because of summer vacations, and getting ready for back to school sales. Although this year was no different, there was the smallest drop since 2001. Total shipments for the quarter were 94.4 million units, down a mere 0.5% from last quarter. Compared to the same quarter last year shipments were up a heartening 16%. Read more...

I3D 2009 CFP - Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics and Gaming

I3D is the leading-edge conference for real-time 3D computer graphics and human interaction. 2009 marks the 23rd year since the first conference gathering. We invite you to submit papers across the entire range of topics in interactive 3D graphics! Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2009 More details at http://i3dsymposium.org Read more...

Virtual Worlds Expo tracks and sessions now online

Virtual Worlds Expo conference tracks and sessions are now online. Tracks include: Virtual Worlds Hollywood, Virtual Worlds for the Enterprise , Kids Virtual Worlds and The Future of Virtual Worlds. Virtual Worlds Expo takes place September 3-4, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA at the LA Convention Center. We are dedicated to helping businesses harness the power of virtual worlds to engage with their customers, partners and employees. Read more...

Supercomputing Power Hits the Desktop, Minus the Software

Wired magazine’s Bryan Gardiner says: Just last week, Khronos, the industry consortium behind the OpenGL standard, announced what it calls Open Computing Language, or OpenCL. With this new heterogeneous computing initiative, the group hopes to come up with a standardized (and universal) way of programming parallel computing tasks. In many ways, it's the Holy Grail developers have been waiting for: a hardware-agnostic standard that unleashes the power of multi-core CPUs and GPUs using a familiar language. Apple is throwing its weight behind parallel processing too, and last week committed to using the OpenCL specification as part of its next operating system release, Snow Leopard. Other companies, including AMD, Nvidia, ARM, Freescale, IBM, Imagination, Nokia, Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung and Texas Instruments have joined the OpenCL working group. If initiatives like OpenCL gain momentum, the days of researchers applying for grants and traveling across the country to use a given university or research facility's super computer may well be at an end. Similarly, distributed computing projects like Folding@Home and Seti@Home may see an huge boost in performance by using hundreds of thousand of computers equipped with these new powerful processors. Of course, if curing cancer or looking for aliens isn't your thing, we can also be fairly certain that Crysis will really scream on any system equipped with these new GPUs. Read more...

Got a secret? Jon Peddie doesn’t want to see your secret.

Jon Peddie lends his thoughts on cell phone companies stay quiet about the chips, memory and other components in their cell phones. From the article “If you go to BestAIB Co, and ask them what GPU is on that board, the folks at Best AIB Co will tell you, happily and proudly. Now go to your favorite mobile phone supplier and ask “What chips are in the HeatsYourPocket 105?” Most likely they will tell you that they won’t discuss the components in their phones.” Read more...

KTF in Direct Talks with Apple for iPhone Supply

KTF, Korea's leading WCDMA provider, had remained a step back in talks with Apple for the launch of iPhone in Korea. Instead, its Japanese partner, NTT DoCoMo was talking with the U.S. phone maker for joint sourcing of the much-sought phone. Recently, however, KTF began talking with Apple directly. Apple is allegedly in talks with SK Telecom, the runner up WCDMA provider in the country, too. Read more...

Have we created a new tower of Babel?

Jon Peddie has posted an interesting look at the chip market today. Jon writes "For a while there was peace in the valley. The PC market had gone through its consolidation, we got over the internet bubble, the platform was stable, everyone knew their place and there was a place for everyone. Life was good, margins were good, growth was good, PEs were good, people smiled at each at conferences, and good cheer was shared by all. And then things changed." Read more...

Acrodea to Sell its Middleware to Sony Ericsson

Acrodea has struck a deal with Sony Ericssonto include its VIVID UI user interface and VIVID Panorama camera middleware in Ericsson’s phones. With this agreement, Sony Ericsson can release cellphones with Acrodea products installed on them. VIVID UI represents innovative middleware that can integrate various types of multimedia content, such as still pictures, 3D graphics, animation effects, and video. The platform enables mobile phones to be customized with graphically enhanced menus and standby screens. Read more...

Visit Motorola at NXTcomm ‘08

Join Motorola at the NXTcomm ’08 Conference and Expo and get help with your business reaching virtually any customer in virtually any environment. Visit Motorola at NXTcomm '08 which runs from June 16th to June 19th 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read more...

E-gaming software leader to invest in Korean game developer Mobilebus Inc.

CryptoLogic Limited, a world leader in Internet gaming software, continued its expansion into Asia with an agreement to take a substantial minority interest in South Korea's Mobilebus Inc., one of Asia's fastest-growing mobile and PC game developers and publishers. CryptoLogic will have representation on the Mobilebus board of directors and the option to increase its ownership to a majority position in the future. The deal is expected to close within 30 days. Read more...

Imagination Technologies confirms new Intel® Centrino® Atom™ technology utilises POW

Imagination Technologies confirms new Intel® Centrino® Atom™ processor technology utilises POWERVR graphics and video technologies 2 April 2008: Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; 'Imagination') – a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ('SoC IP') – announces that Intel® Centrino® Atom™ processor technology includes Imagination’s POWERVR® SGX graphics and POWERVR VXD multi-standard HD video technologies. These graphics and video technologies, as part of the Intel® System Controller Hub in Intel Centrino Atom processor technology, enable the user to enjoy a richer Internet multimedia experience while consuming low power. Gary Willihnganz, director of marketing for Intel Corporation’s Ultra Mobility Group said: “Our goal with Intel Centrino Atom processor technology is to enable the best internet experience in pocketable Mobile Internet Devices. Imagination’s graphics and video technologies, combined with Intel’s low power technologies and platform. Read more...

Jon Peddie at CeBIT 2008 shares his vision for the future of graphics

A two-part interview with Jon Peddie--one of the world’s leading experts on the graphics market--in which he shares his vision for the future of graphics with the HEXUS.tv audience. HEXUS.tv covered everything from PlayStation 4 to XBox 720 and Larrabee through to Fusion… and that is just part one. In part two Jon tackles a range of tough issues, from who will win the console war, to the upcoming challenges faced by CPU makers as OEMs look to reduce their BOM costs. Take a look at these great inteviews. Read more...

Driving Digital Content

Understanding & Solutions is delighted to announce the return of Driving Digital Content, a two-day event focusing on the business opportunities presented by the continued rise of digital content delivery and the impact upon the wider industry. Driving Digital Content uncovers the industry insights and brings together key figures from across the globe, with conference attendees coming from leading consumer electronics companies, content owners and producers, broadcasters, service providers and industry associations. Read more...