James A. McCombe

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Imagination Technologies, Engineer

Bio:

SIGGRAPH 2013

James A. McCombe is an engineer and entrepreneur in the field of parallel computing, hardware architecture and computer graphics. James currently works at Imagination Technologies, a UK based company which, among other technologies, develops the PowerVR GPU which is integrated into many of the mobile phones and tablets on the market today. James is currently working to augment the PowerVR GPU architecture to support ray tracing in constrained, low- power environments with the intention of bringing ray tracing to the broadest possible range of devices. Previously, he was the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Caustic Graphics where he developed methods for improving computational efficiency in many aspects of a ray tracing system. Imagination Technologies acquired Caustic Graphics in 2010. Prior to this, James was a lead engineer of the mobile and desktop OpenGL graphics system at Apple Computer, contributing to the evolution of programmable shading on GPUs. James A. McCombe holds more than 11 granted patents in the areas of parallel hardware scheduling, numeric representation and spatial data structures.

Experience(s):

Type: [SIGGRAPHMobile ]
New Directions and Developments in Mobile GPU Design
[Demers ] [Lichtenbelt ] [Blythe ] [Shreiner ] [McCombe ] [Shimpi ]
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Learning Category: Presentation(s):

Type: [Courses ]
Ray Tracing is the Future and Ever Will Be Organizer(s): [Keller]
Presenter(s): [Keller ] [Karras ] [Wald ] [Laine ] [Aila ] [Bikker ] [Gribble ] [Lee ] [McCombe ]
Entry No.: [09 ]
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