September 10, 2014, Intel Develop Forum, San Francisco—Stan Baran described the requirements and recommendations for HD video communications. The capabilities require numerous hardware and software functions that are highly interactive and open to a wide range of optimizations. The basic application uses the capabilities of the base processors, optimized drivers, and a number of tools…
March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—James Fox from DawnRunner described the changes in visual effects workflows, and the consequences and impacts of changing technologies. New technologies are enabling small, independent visual effects companies to challenge existing philosophies. Existing solutions to creating effects are very hard to scale. The complex tools and equipment…
March 25, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Mike Romey from ZOIC Studios described their implementation of a virtual production pipeline. The ZEUS (Zoic environmental universal system) has many functions such as tracking monitors for the rigged cameras and other equipment, real-time render for actors on green screens, previsualization, markup, etc. for work on virtual…
March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Zoufu Cheng from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne talked about making the audio as good as the video in games. The ability of the GPUs to process rays can be applied to acoustics as well as to the images to provide a more immersive game experience….
January 2014 – Imagination Technology, as usual, was visible all over CES 2014. They started off with their Pure radio group at CES unveiled showing their internet radios that support multi-format software defined tuners. At the show its self Pure radio had a booth showing their systems, but they also had a briefing and meeting…
November 12, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Laurent Betbeder from Sony outlined the considerations for the latest console. The game audio system addresses the need for clean audio within the games. The consoles are moving towards more PC hardware to take advantage of the greater need for performance and lower costs. The major difference…
November 13, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Dominic Mallinson from Sony Consumer Entertainment America highlighted the design decisions underlying the latest Sony Playstation. The new console offers better capabilities for the gamers and a new unified architecture for the developers to ease development. The PS 4 is designed to be simpler and easier to…
November 12, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Steve Borho from MulticoreWare detailed the developments on an H.265/HEVC video encoder project. This open source project will produce an encoder set that will eventually replace the H.264 encoders currently in place. The background for the encoders covers much of the video landscape. In video, quality matters,…
November 2013, in a briefing for the AMD Developers conference (APU 2013) they introduced their 3rd generation APU and its associated updated development environment to go with it. This third generation device once again incorporates Radeon GPUs with a multi-core CPU but now there is an optimized memory handler called the hUMA which allows the…
October 29, 2013 – At ARMTechcon in Santa Clara, ARM announced their next generation of graphics cores with GPU compute capabilities the Mali T720 and T760. These new cores add to the momentum of the Mali cores in the mobile space with over 20% penetration in the Android Smartphone market and over 50% of the…