Founded by three engineers from Apple, Caustic Graphics promises to speed up the realistic renderings through a combination of chips and software. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where ...

When graphics processing unit (GPU) maker NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) reported second-quarter 2018 results, concerns about slowing growth stole the headlines once again. This time, the slowdown was caused ...

In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects ...

Whether you belong to Team Nvidia or team AMD, Xbox or PlayStation, or even Apple Mac vs PC, you’ve probably heard of ray-tracing. It's the holy grail for computer graphics. It works by simulating ...

Nvidia said Friday at that it has bought the ray-tracing company RayScale. The purchase has a lot of significance in the war of words between Nvidia and Intel over graphics. The new acquisition could ...

The gaming industry has been a forefront for technology since its early days, pushing the expectations of things like handheld computing, online communication, and of course, graphics. For the last ...

Over the last few years, if you're a gamer or PC hardware enthusiast, you've probably heard the term "ray-tracing" bandied about quite a bit. Actually, you likely heard it before that, but with the ...

After decades of work, is ray tracing nearly ready for prime time? We examine the technology's industrial and consumer gaming applications. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Intel has just announced an interesting update to its upcoming Meteor Lake chips: The integrated graphics are about to receive an unprecedented boost, allowing them to rival low-end, discrete GPUs.

Microsoft's new ray tracing trick cuts out the CPU bottleneck holding back every game engine ...