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Help wanted: Japanese anime artists

1 week ago | jonpeddie.com | Karen Moltenbrey

Japanese anime is popular around the world, and Japan knows it is a valuable export. While the market for anime continues to grow, the number of anime artists is on the decline and continues on this downward trend. (Source: Andri Tegar Mahardika, Pixabay)The main reasons for this decline are attributed to low pay and long work hours. More experienced anime animators are burnt out and frustrated.
WWDC 25: Apple puts on a happy face

1 week ago | jonpeddie.com | Kathleen Maher

The stakes were low for Apple’s WWDC 25— Apple did exceed them. In 2024, the company promised advanced AI features for Siri and other applications. When those improvements never materialized and Apple admitted the need to delay some changes, the tech press started writing obits for Apple. As it turned out, what Apple did have to show off in time for WWDC 25 was a flashy new interface and no lack of Apple Intelligence throughout the product portfolio.
Modern GPUs are an incredible bargain

1 week ago | jonpeddie.com | Jon Peddie

Nvidia launched the first GPU in 1999 with the GeForce 256, introducing hardware T&L to off-load CPU workloads. The 2001 GeForce 3 added programmable shaders, starting a new era in graphics. Shader counts soared from dozens to tens of thousands by 2025, evolving through unified shader models and AI acceleration. Nvidia’s 2017 Tensor Cores marked a pivot to AI, now central in gaming and data centers. Despite massive performance leaps, GPU prices have risen modestly.
AMD’s Series 350 GPUs

1 week ago | jonpeddie.com | Jon Peddie

At its Advancing AI event, AMD launched the MI350 series GPUs, built on the new CDNA 4 architecture. These accelerators challenge Nvidia’s B200 on cost-performance for small-to-medium AI model inference but are not a rack-scale competitor to the GB200 NVL72 for large-scale training. The architecture uses eight compute chiplets and 288GB of HBM3E memory. Its key innovation is support for new, reduced-precision data types like FP4, dramatically increasing AI throughput and efficiency.
Advancing AI at AMD

2 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | Jon Peddie

AMD previewed its next-generation AI GPU, the MI400 series and demonstrated how the MI450 would compare to the current MI350. The MI350 series, including Instinct MI350X and MI355X GPUs and platforms, will be available by the third quarter. AMD also showed its next-generation rack system called Helios. Several partners joined CEO Lisa Su on stage to support the open AI ecosystem. AMD executives stated they can beat Nvidia’s B200 on price, performance, and power efficiency.
HP’s 14-inch ZBook Ultra G1a

2 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | Alex Herrera |Álex Herrera

The new AMD-powered mobile offers impressive performance gains for such a small machine, promising benefits for AI development in particular… but it’s not without trade-offs(Source: HP)Having evolved rapidly from a relatively niche market served, today’s mobile workstation market is both broad and dynamic. Where an OEM like HP might have had just one or two models in years past to serve the range of users, today it counts more than seven.
HP’s 14-inch ZBook Ultra G1a: A mobile workstation mold-breaker… but with a caveat (or two)

2 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | Alex Herrera |Álex Herrera

HP’s ZBook Ultra G1a is a mold-breaking 14-inch mobile workstation, built around an AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro APU and its powerful integrated Radeon graphics, foregoing a discrete GPU. Benchmarks show its graphics performance rivals previous-generation midrange discrete cards, though it can dip under heavy concurrent CPU and GPU loads due to shared power and memory. Its key advantage is a unified memory architecture, allowing the GPU to access up to 96GB of RAM—ideal for large AI models.
Wacom unveils new Cintiq line

2 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | Karen Moltenbrey

Wacom has unveiled a new generation of Wacom Cintiq pen displays—the Cintiq 16, Cintiq 24, and Cintiq 24 touch—combining Wacom’s Pro Pen 3 technology, a compact design, and sharper displays. The new pen displays will be available this summer. Nearly two and a half decades ago, Wacom introduced its Cintiq interactive creative pen display, optimizing the illustration experience by enabling users to draw directly on the device.
London Tech Week 2025: Britain’s tech boom?

2 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | David Harold

London Tech Week 2025 marked a turning point for UK innovation, with over £4 billion (~US $5.4 billion) in new investments and major announcements from Nvidia, Microsoft, Liquidity, and more. The UK tech sector hit a $1.2 trillion valuation, while government initiatives backed AI, housing, and regional growth. From AI labs and talent pipelines to quantum computing and drug discovery, the message given was: Britain is building to lead. London Tech Week 2025 was anything but quiet.
Adobe is coming to the Android platform… finally! Again!

2 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | Kathleen Maher

In February, Adobe introduced a Photoshop version built for mobile. Now, at the end of May, Adobe has introduced a version for Android. Is this woo-hoo!! or what? It’s a pledge by Adobe to put a more powerful Photoshop in the hands of millions. Adobe has already introduced Photoshop Express for Android, along with mobile versions of Lightroom, Acrobat, and the very first iteration of Adobe Express, which was then called Spark. They did that in 2015, a huge year for Adobe’s mobile ambitions.