April 19-20, 2013 – Continuing the global expansion of gaming and game development, we visited the Digital Dragons 2013 European Games Festival held in Krakow, Poland. The electronic games market is the fastest growing sector in the entertainment industry and is expected to reach 60 billion euro in 2015 (IDATE prediction). Poland has been getting [...]
February 2013 – This years Solid State Circuit conference featured a processor session that was focusing on increasing cache size and more cores at low power. The rise in data size being handled by these units, has driven the systems to explore new architectures that are much more throughput oriented rather than MIPS/GFLOPs oriented. This [...]
April 2013 – In the content creation world, the transmedia market is now opening up the development to professionals working on projects that are sharing both files and completed content assets. One of these areas of convergent is the gaming and broadcast industry. We had the opportunity to meet with Content Creation Specialty VAR ALT [...]
February 2013 – At the RSA conference, Tilera was showing their 3rd generation programmable product the GX72. This is a 72 tile core that is an addition to the existing GX36 36 core array. The GX36 is a staple of the high throughput community providing 40G I/Os next to high performance computing and access to [...]
Most of us in the Entertainment business are well-aware of the need to secure our personal information and intellectual property. It may not be as fun as trip to the mountains or a new guitar, but we recognize the value of security technologies to our work, our financial and our personal lives… but we don’t [...]
February 22, 2013 – In San Jose and Barcelona, Maxim integrated circuit introduced their new MAX2580 single-chip multi-standard RF to Bits® small cell radio transceiver. Aimed at the growing microcell and femtocell marketplace, the MIMO (2×2) radio design brings a single part solution with a minimum of external components to the system designer. This will [...]
February 6, 2013 – The Linley Data Center conference relocated to the Hyatt in Santa Clara for this year’s event focusing on interconnect/networking and power. The keys were the advances in high speed interconnect as driven by the cloud and software defines networking, as well as optimizing performance/power for the growing data centers & servers. [...]
January 26, 2013 – At the NAMM show this year, they continued their new association as the location of the TEC Awards. Focusing on the recognition of the technical achievement of the music industry. A unique award event that spans from new and innovative equipment creators though final music products and leadership in the professional [...]
February 14, 2013 – Richard Karp announced that Calvin Hall was the new home of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the UC Berkeley campus as an addition to the College of Engineering. The Institute selected Berkeley as the site over 18 other schools, including MIT, Harvard and Stanford. Its goal is [...]
February 4, 2013, Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Wes Bethel from Lawrence Berkeley Lab explained why high performance visual data analytics is both relevant and difficult. The onset of big data and the advances in computers make some areas easier, but the big problems still need a lot of technology to find solutions. Visualization has always [...]
