The changes in iOS 12 for developers
Monday, October 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
It's here, iOS 12 - Apple's latest operating system, and it's chalked full of changes in everything from the user experience to under the programming hood. Along with the new OS, Apple has also released a new round of hardware, most notably with bigger screen sizes, a faster A12 chip, and the new Apple watch series 4. We've all seen the key note int...
Neural network SDK has been announced by Imagination
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
Imagination Technologies announced their PowerVR CLDNN SDK for developing neural network applications on PowerVR GPUs. The neural network SDK makes it easy for developers to create Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) using PowerVR hardware. Both an API and SDK are included, as well as an image for flashing on to an Acer Chromebook R13 for hardware development.Imaginati...
Nimbix Cloud now compatible with the Xilinx SDAccel development environment
Monday, November 14, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Nimbix, an HPC cloud platform provider just announced the immediate availability of the Xilinx SDAccel development environment for on-demand development, testing, and deployment of FPGA-accelerated workflows in the Nimbix Cloud, powered by JARVICE. The SDAccel development environment combines the industry's first architecturally optimizing compiler supporting any combin...
Qt 5.5 Release Includes Windows 10 Support and New IoT Functionality
Friday, July 3, 2015 by Richard Harris
Qt has released Qt 5.5, the latest version of its cross-platform application and user interface (UI) development framework. Qt offers a C++ based framework of libraries and tools that enables the development of interactive and cross-platform applications and devices. This latest version extends support for multimedia and graphics creation with 3D capabilities as well as...
Valve Releases New Steam Products and Technologies at GDC 2015
Saturday, March 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Valve has announced a number of product and technologies at GDC including Steam Link, which provides the ability to stream all Steam content from any PC or Steam Machine on the same home network. Supporting 1080p at 60Hz with low latency, Steam Link will be available this November for $49.99, and available with a Steam Controller for an additional $49.99 in the US. ...
Khronos Group Introduces New Vulkan Hardware Driver API and SPIR V Intermediate Language Shared by Vulkan and OpenCL 2.1
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Khronos Group, an open consortium of hardware and software companies, has released the technical previews of the new Vulkan open standard API for high-efficiency access to graphics and compute on modern GPUs that are used in a wide variety of devices.The new introduction is a ground-up design, previously referred to as the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative, that pro...
PowerVR Imaging Framework for Android Comprises a Set of Extensions to the OpenCL and EGL API's
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
Imagination's new PowerVR imaging framework helps OEMs to better improve their processing performance through using a variety of Android applications.PowerVR imaging framework for Android provide OEMs a way to integrate the newest features for computer vision and computational photography within their camera applications. PowerVR’s imaging framework for Androi...
Intel Releases New INDI Toolkit for Android and Windows Mobile Cross Platform Development
Monday, October 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has released the Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience 2015 toolkit (Intel INDE) which is a cross-platform productivity suite that provides developers with tools, support, integration and updates to create C++/Java applications for Android and Windows applications on ARM and Intel architectureBundled within Intel INDE are tools to facilitate the application...
