Review: Xencelabs Pen Display 16

Review: Xencelabs Pen Display 16

The Xencelabs Pen Display family continues to grow. With its detailed display and desktop practicality, the svelte and portable Pen Display 16 is a welcome new addition to the line-up, as Stephen Holmes reports Handling hardware has become a more prevalent part of the designer’s daily workflow since the rise of the tablet. A high-end … Read More

Blender 3.0 and AMD: Creating a New Performance Pa…

Blender 3.0 and AMD: Creating a New Performance Pa…

  We are thrilled to announce that thanks to our close partnership with Blender®, select AMD graphics cards are supported in today’s release of version 3.0 of their incredibly popular 3D digital content creation software suite. Broadly speaking, the goal of the new release is to build upon previous versions’ UI and workflows, and to … Read More

CXL Gathers Momentum at FMS 2024

CXL Gathers Momentum at FMS 2024

The CXL consortium has had a regular presence at FMS (which rechristened itself from ‘Flash Memory Summit’ to the ‘Future of Memory and Storage’ this year). Back at FMS 2022, the company had announced v3.0 of the CXL specifications. This was followed by CXL 3.1’s introduction at Supercomputing 2023. Having started off as a host … Read More

Orbbec Femto Bolt – A Microsoft Azure Kinect Replacement

Orbbec Femto Bolt – A Microsoft Azure Kinect Replacement

The Orbbec Femto Bolt is a RGBD camera based on the Microsoft Azure Kinect DK. Looky here: Introduction Late in 2023, Microsoft announced that they would no longer be producing Kinect hardware. Instead, Microsoft began licensing their Kinect technology to approved third-party manufacturers. Here we are looking at the Orbbec Femto Bolt, which is an … Read More

Intel 4th Gen Xeon Workstation Fishhawk Falls CPUs & PC Builds

Intel 4th Gen Xeon Workstation Fishhawk Falls CPUs & PC Builds

Xeon Workstation Fishhawk Falls Notable Information Intel has announced the upcoming launch of two new families of Xeon Workstation Fishhawk Falls processors: the W-2400 and W-3400 series. Both bring new and potentially exciting features to Intel’s Xeon Workstation processor lineup. Xeon W-3400 is a replacement for the existing W-3300 line, with vastly higher core counts … Read More

NVIDIA Grace CPU Delivers World-Class Data Center Performance and Breakthrough Energy Efficiency

NVIDIA Grace CPU Delivers World-Class Data Center Performance and Breakthrough Energy Efficiency

NVIDIA designed the NVIDIA Grace CPU to be a new kind of high-performance, data center CPU—one built to deliver breakthrough energy efficiency and optimized for performance at data center scale.  Accelerated computing is enabling giant leaps in performance and energy efficiency compared to traditional CPU computing. To deliver these speedups, full-stack innovation at data center … Read More