AMD's position in the graphics market continues to be a tricky one. Although the company has important design wins in the console space—both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are built around AMD CPUs with integrated AMD GPUs—its position in the PC space is a little more precarious. Nvidia currently has the outright performance lead, and perhaps more problematically, many games are to a...
AMD embraces open source to take on Nvidia’s GameWorks
Circa news app to re-launch under new owner Sinclair, will open office in Seattle
Circa is making a comeback. The news app that shut down operations this past June after failing to raise funding is being re-launched under new ownership. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sinclair Broadcast Corp., a publicly-traded company based in Maryland, acquired Circa and has hired a former Washington Times executive to help start a new version of...
Adobe ditches ‘Flash’ name as it tries to catch up with a web built on open standards
Adobe is getting rid of Flash, at least in name. The company announced today it’s changing the name of its Flash Professional CC software to Animate CC, reflecting better tools for creating content with HTML5 instead of Flash. With the rise of mobile computing and smartphones, Flash has seen steep competition from open web standards like HTML5, which can...
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