Ever since texture mapping took off back in the 1990s, texture access has been recognised as one of the most important consumers of memory bandwidth in graphics systems – to the point where the amount ...

Next generation mobile applications to benefit from richer 3D feature set and enhanced portability August 6th, 2012 – Los Angeles, SIGGRAPH 2012 – The Khronos™ Group today announced the immediate ...

Graphics and technology firm ARM has made the evaluation codec for its ASTC technology available on GitHub. ASTC stands for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression, a new technique devises by ARM and ...

When we spoke of Steam for Linux yesterday, many of our readers were wondering just how competitive OpenGL is these days when compared against Direct3D. This can be quite the tricky question as, when ...

In order to boost storage capabilities, Bridgtek has unveiled a range of embedded video engine (EVE) graphics controllers with adaptive scalable texture compression (ASTC) functionality at Embedded ...

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