News a Safe Harbor blogAMD Awarded a Technical and Engineering Emmy for Graphics Excellence
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has awarded a Technical and Engineering Emmy® Award to AMD for its industry-leading ATI Radeon™ 9700 technology. This award for Pioneering Work in Near and Real-Time fully programmable Shading via Modern Graphics Processors was announced during an award ceremony at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 8, 2007, in Las Vegas. "This is a truly dynamic time for television industry, and we are recognizing the significant contributions made by technology and engineering professionals in enhancing and redefining the consumers’ experiences with the media," said Peter Price, President/CEO, National Television Academy. "This year, we are particularly pleased to commend those who are contributing to the technical development of television anytime, anywhere through the advancement of broadband and portable delivery platforms." The Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards honor accomplishments in two areas: Science, Engineering & Technology for Broadcast Television and Science, Engineering and Technology for Broadband and Personal Television. Prospective awardees and technologies are recommended and selected by a blue ribbon panel of industry experts and professionals. "The advent of programmable shading was a watershed moment in computer graphics," said Bob Drebin, Chief Technical Officer, Graphics Products Group, AMD. "For the first time artists could experiment with lighting and shading schemes in real time, thanks in part to the programmability and performance of the Radeon 9700. We deeply appreciate the recognition from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and look forward to continuing to drive the evolution of the hardware to help artists and programmers amaze and delight, both within the field of entertainment and beyond." For more information on the ATI GPU or any AMD products please visit http://ati.amd.com 0 responses to "AMD Awarded a Technical and Engineering Emmy for Graphics Excellence"You can use select BBCode tags to format your thoughts including: [b], [i], [s], [u], [url], [quote] and [code]. | About This BlogSafe Harbor's 3D, video and post production news blog offers you the latest announcements and updates from the industry.Newest PostsTags3D Animation 3D Plugins & Effects Accessories Accessories - Camera Adapters and Splitters Add-ons - Avid Add-ons - Edius Add-ons - Final Cut Pro Add-ons - Lightwave Add-ons - Premiere Pro Add-ons for TriCaster Adobe Adobe (Licenses) AJA Apple Atomos ATTO Technology Audio & Music Hardware Audio & Music Software Audio Libraries Avid backup Power Supplies (UPS) Bella Corporation Blackmagic Design Bluefish444 Books Breakout Boxes Cables Cache-A CalDigit Camcorders CineForm Class on Demand Computers Contour Design Control Surfaces Craft Animations Cubix Digieffects Display Cards Displays - LCD DVD and Blu-Ray Hardware Electric Crayon Studio E-on Software Expansion Chassis Firewire Cards Graphics Tablets Grass Valley G-Technology Hard Drives - External Hard Drives - RAID Hard Drives - SATA Hash, Inc. HD Video Hardware HDD Recorders Hewlett-Packard Host Controllers IKan Image Processing Software Image-Object-Animation Libraries Jog-Shuttles Keyboards and Mice LaCie Liquid Dream Solutions Luxology Lynx Matrox Maxon Media Player Hardware Memory Ministry Software Motu Multimedia Authoring Software NewTek Next Limit NLE Plugins & Effects Software NLE Software Noise Industries, LLC Operating Systems Painting & Illustration Software Pioneer Pixologic PNY Power Supplies Production Switchers Safe Harbor Signal Processing & Distribution Singular Software Sonnet Sony Creative Software Sorenson Media Speakers Tape Drives Telestream Tutorials DVD/CD Video & 3D Utility Software Video Capture Cards Video Converters Video Encoder Hardware Video Equipment Video Streaming Hardware ViewCast VoluMedic-OG Wacom Warranty or Support Web Tools Software Wondertouch by GenArts WTools3D XLNT Idea, Inc. |