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2011 Game Piracy Observations – Have Consoles Failed the Piracy Litmus Test?

By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (42 posts) on January 31, 2012 at 3:53 pm
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So I’ll let you all draw your own conclusions; but I’ve been mulling over a few articles released earlier this month around the piracy statistics released via TorrentFreak. The first article I read was Tom’s article on Gamasutra titled “Report: Crysis 2 named most-pirated game of 2011”. That article led me to the link he [...]

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Category: Academic, Android, Events, Game Development, Graphics & Media, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Manageability & Security, Uncategorized

Upcoming February Technical Presentation

By Elizabeth S (Intel) (10 posts) on January 23, 2012 at 1:50 pm
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Happy New Year! A technical presentation has been scheduled for February 15, 2012: Future-Proof Your Application's Performance With Vectorization.  This presentation is for C, C++, and Fortran developers, and will help you get started understanding and evaluating vectorization using new technologies such as Intel® Cilk Plus, pragma SIMD and the Intel Compiler’s Guided Auto Parallelization [...]

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Matt’s Top 10+ Technology Predictions for 2012

By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (42 posts) on December 5, 2011 at 11:12 am
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Hi everyone – It’s that time of year again where I speculate on what the big technology announcements and impacts are going to be for next year 2012. The lens I use for this are those things that will in some way have a profound short or long term impact, or implications, for the various [...]

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Category: Academic, Android, Events, Game Development, Graphics & Media, Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Mobility, Uncategorized

PC Gaming Alliance unveiling its Cross Platform Gaming Spec next week!

By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (42 posts) on October 31, 2011 at 7:56 pm
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Next week the PC Gaming Alliance will be unveiling a set of proposals for a cross platform gaming specification; and game feature sets in a Webinar. This will be a historic event for PC Gaming, the PC Gaming Alliance, and an industry first to articulate a type of ‘metric’ system for gaming that spans multiple [...]

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Category: Academic, Android, Embedded Computing, Events, Game Development, Graphics & Media, Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Mobility, Open Source, Uncategorized

Cutting Edge Curator, Paul Young and the Young Projects Gallery

By Audri Phillips (11 posts) on October 25, 2011 at 12:11 pm
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Wallace Stevens is one of my favorite poets, so I was happy to find that Paul Young curator and owner of the Young Projects Gallery in the Pacific Design Center referenced one of his poems, “The Pediment of Appearance” for one of the 2 shows running concurrently in his gallery, “The Savage Transparence.”  Like a good [...]

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Category: Art, Music, & Animation, Events, Graphics & Media, Uncategorized

The Technology and Vision for Using the Arts to Help People

By Audri Phillips (11 posts) on September 20, 2011 at 12:01 pm
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Sometimes I feel like I am living in the the strangest, ”most interesting” time of my life. It is certainly a challenging time! So it was a real treat to attend an inspiring event, one full of attendees and speakers that were intent on using the arts to promote and do good things. I attended [...]

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Category: Art, Music, & Animation, Events, Game Development, Graphics & Media, Uncategorized

These are your 2011 Faces of Parallelism...

By Clay Breshears (Intel) (194 posts) on September 20, 2011 at 11:23 am
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I just wish we had been thinking ahead and had their actual faces that we could post, too.

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Build Conf - Win 8 & PC Gaming? Stay tuned….

By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (42 posts) on September 13, 2011 at 8:07 am
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Blogs tend to be rife with speculation & mine is often no exception! However; to be fair, a lot of what I know as an insider, and working from my previous employer, inhibits me from going all out. So advance apologies if anything I say seems ‘couched’ or ‘safe’. Let me start out by saying [...]

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Opportunities to learn about the Yocto Project at IDF

By David Stewart (Intel) (174 posts) on September 12, 2011 at 3:56 pm
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If you are attending the Intel Developer Forum, you have a couple of great opportunities to learn about the Yocto Project and how it helps embedded Linux. Hands-on Lab: Create a Custom Embedded Linux* OS for Any Embedded Device using the Yocto Project - Wednesday (9/14) at 1:05PM, repeated at 3:20PM, Room 2012 - This [...]

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Do you have a face for parallelism?

By Clay Breshears (Intel) (194 posts) on September 8, 2011 at 3:19 pm
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It's never nice to tell someone that they have "a face for radio." But, if you're going to be at IDF 2011, you should attend the "Faces of Parallelism" lab to show off your parallel face.

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GDC 2011: How Havok's tools work and what you can do with them

By ibelshaeuser (13 posts) on August 17, 2011 at 12:30 am
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As you might remember we have interviewed Havok's Head of Product Management, Andrew Bowell who told us a lot about Havok as a company, about GDC Europe, about their partnership with Intel and many things more. A few hours later I had the chance to have a video chat with Steve Ewart who is Sales [...]

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GDC 2011: Philipp Gerasimov from Intel talks about Intel GPA

By ibelshaeuser (13 posts) on August 17, 2011 at 12:28 am
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During Game Developers Conference Europe 2011 Intel's Senior Application Engineer Philipp Gerasimov had his tech session where he talked about the gaming title Darkspore and how the developer's team from Maxis was able to optimize their game running best on laptops. They achieved this by using Intel's profiling and analyzing tool called Intel Graphics Performance [...]

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GDC 2011: Andrew Bowell talks about Havok's rendering technoglogies

By ibelshaeuser (13 posts) on August 16, 2011 at 9:43 am
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Here at Game Developers Conference Europe 2011 in Cologne, Germany, well-known software company Havok from Dublin, Ireland, is this years software partner at the Intel booth in the exhibition area. These smart guys show their latest and coolest stuff regarding different rendering and texturing techniques which are being implemented in a lot of current gaming [...]

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GDC 2011: Levent Akyil video chats about Sandy Bridge, AVX and Intel VTune Amplifier 2011 XE

By ibelshaeuser (13 posts) on August 16, 2011 at 9:38 am
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Do you remember?! Levent Akyil held his tech session live at Game Developers Conference 2011 this morning and talked about the architectural improvements of Sandy Bridge, why developers should look closer at AVX and which hotspots and traps you as a developer can tap in when parallelizing new or existing code - whether you are [...]

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GDC 2011: Levent Akyil from Intel talks about "Hotspot Flops & Micro-Ops"

By ibelshaeuser (13 posts) on August 16, 2011 at 4:21 am
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As I told you already Intel is silver sponsor of the GDC event in Cologne, Germany. Part of this sponsor package is a demo booth in the exhibition area (stand 150) and three lectures which address game developers who want to know more about Intel's efforts regarding game development. After yesterdays's tech session where Leigh [...]

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