June 2014, Santa Clara, CA—Deepak Das from VisualOn provided background on the company and their products. They started with software codecs for device manufacturers and ODMs, focusing on H.264 type software. As mobile devices became media platforms, they found that the platforms were becoming highly fragmented across the devices and in the number of protocols…
April 1, 2014, EE Live Conference, San Jose, CA—Kamal Khouri from AMD and Warren Kurisu from Mentor Graphics described their new partnership to supply Linux development tools for embedded systems for the various AMD processors. The intent of the partnership is to provide robust development tools, libraries, and workflows for more embedded processors. AMD decided…
March 25, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Imagination Technologies about their latest releases. The hardware and software company is working on more features and capabilities in all their products. First, they announced the release of the latest version PowerVR Graphics SDK (software development kit) v3.1. The SDK includes tutorials, source code, extensive…
March 23, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Terry Brown from HP and Jon Guess from ALT Systems about their new workstation-software bundles. These integrated systems are directed for game developers who need a pre-configured system with the latest software tools. HP has been in the workstation business for a while and has…
March 27, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Andrew Stutter from Crytek GmbH about game development tools for object effects. Their software is focused on area lights and optical effects on various surfaces as well as the underlying visual elements. The tools works in a real-time mode with full optics features. One example…
March 27, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco – We talked with Wesley Adams and Rob Hoffman from Autodesk about their entertainment creation suite. This set of tools was developed in conjunction with some production teams to make a different approach to development and to bypass beta testing. These game development products are focused on…