For most people, the story of graphics cards starts with Nvidia and AMD. The reality is quite different. Long before either of those two companies started to dominate the market, and long before GPUs ...

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...

In 1982, Disney studios released Tron, one of the first films from a major studio to feature extensive computer graphics. The movie is about a programmer (played by Jeff Bridges) who gets “digitized” ...

Founded in San Jose, California in 1994 by a trio of former Silicon Graphics employees, 3Dfx got its start making hardware for arcade machines. The company's first-gen Voodoo chipset powered arcade ...

Computer graphics and robotics have been converging for years. At SIGGRAPH 2026, that convergence takes center stage as robots learn, move, create, and interact through technologies originally ...