AMD eBlast: Apple launches its most powerful computer ever with new iMac Pro powered by Radeon Pro Vega graphics

Apple’s new iMac Pro hit shelves with a new graphics chip: AMD’s Radeon Pro Vega. As Apple notes on their website – ‘Vega graphics. The beast behind the beauty.’

With Radeon Pro Vega graphics, the iMac Pro delivers best-in-class workstation graphics to enhance workflows for today’s professionals and creators—from photographers and video editors to 3D animators and engineers—by using the latest in graphics technology to fuel modern creative efforts from anywhere inspiration strikes. Key advancements with Radeon Pro Vega include:

• Revolutionary memory. With 16GB of High Bandwidth Memory, the iMac Pro delivers performance up to two times faster than any previous iMac GPU and up to three times faster than the Mac Pro GPU. This also translates to higher frame rates for VR, real-time 3D rendering and gameplay at max settings.
• Updated GPU processing units. Single- and half-precision computing allow operations to be performed twice as fast when they don’t require a full 32 bits of precision. How fast is this? Up to 22 teraflops.

The reviews are already in from the experts – creators who’ve had the chance to test the new iMac Pro touted the major improvements to performance and their workflows with Radeon Pro Vega graphics, letting them bring their visions to life without barriers or compromise.

• Craig Hunter, a mechanical and aerospace engineer, summarized the iMac Pro as a “graphics powerhouse — I continually marveled at how crisp and clean everything was rendered with no apparent overhead or impact on performance.”
• Video editor Thomas Carter found, “I’ll repeat that once more. 8K. Color correction. Blur. No Rendering. No ‘1/4 quality’ BS. No frames dropped."
• Vincent Laforet, a photographer and director, experienced a two to three times boost in speed in his workflows. He concluded, “In short – this is a KILLER machine for any serious photographer, filmmaker, or VR producer. Period.”
• Mac and iOS app developer Cabel Sasser’s described testing FireWatch with the iMac Pro and the Retina 5K iMac, resulting in 62 FPS at 2560x1440. He also witnessed a 41 percent boost in compiling Xcode projects on the iMac Pro compared to a standard Mac Pro.

You can read more about Radeon Pro Vega in the brand new iMac Pro here

*This is Press Release

Teachers board topnotchers from Mindanao support extension of Martial Law in region

Teachers board exam topnotchers from Mindanao recently expressed strong support for government’s one-year extension of martial law in their region for the sake of improving peace and order conditions, they expressed this view at the non-partisan Pandesal Forum brunch with media at Kamuning Bakery Café in Quezon City. The Mindanao-born teachers board topnotchers included the first legally-blind and Muslim teachers board exam topnotcher Abdulaziz Hajimin Dapilin of Lamitan, Basilan province; Darlene Z. Mula of General Santos City; Anielyn D. Ladica of General Santos City; Gerald Ryan O. Reburcio of General Santos City.

The topnotchers were accompanied to the Pandesal Forum by their review school’s owner and Quezon City Chamber of Commerce & Industry past president Dr. Carl Balita, who said these talented and idealistic young people overcame poverty and other hardships to attain their goals.  

            Declining good job offers in Metro Manila, Abdulaziz Hajimin Dapilin said at the Pandesal Forum with media that he plans to fly back to his native Basilan province in order to work there in helping improve education for special children or disabled kids, because he said he had difficulties in schooling because he was given no such education tailored for special kids. He lost total eyesight at age 9 and had to struggle to cope with academic studies. Dapilin said that extension of martial law is alright, as long as there are no abuses and as long as better security can be given their region. He appealed to media to present a more balanced picture of Mindanao region, that their place is not all about wars and conflicts, that there are many beautiful and peaceful places such as Basilan province and his hometown Lamitan. Dr. Carl Balita complained that during the teacher board exam, the examiners took away Dapilin’s talking calculator which a blind student like him needed, so there war no way for him to accurately figure out some complex math questions during the board exam but still he came out a topnotcher.

            Nurse board exam topnotcher Maria Cecilia Campos from Lorma College in La Union province is another inspiring story presented at the non-partisan Pandesal Forum of Kamuning Bakery Café, because her father Maximino Campos is an ordinary carpenter and her mother Ernalin Campos is a housewife. Her parents couldn’t afford to send her to school, so it was her aunt Victoria Duculan who helped pay for her education. Maria Cecilia Campos said her inspiration to study hard and diligently is her family, their love and support for her despite their poverty. She said she shares the other topnotchers’ high hopes for a better future for their families and a better Philippine economy in 2018.

JobStreet Philippines’ Country Manager Bags 2017 IABC CEO Excel Award

After more than two decades of experience in various leadership positions, JobStreet Philippines Country Manager Philip Gioca was named one of the recipients of the 2017 CEO Excel Awards.

Under his tutelage, JobStreet Philippines has furthered its leadership position in the industry, presenting an average of 60,000 jobs posted monthly by as many as 24,000 employers across key industries and business sizes. To date, 7.6 million candidates have registered to the online portal. He has also overseen the rollout of several innovations such as richer job ads with inclusion of vital information such as salary data, Talent Search, Company Reviews, and the LiNA bot.

With his zeal for innovation and progress, Gioca has overseen the digitization of various traditional offline channels for job search and enablement. Government jobs, a growing labor market segment, has been added into JobStreet Philippines’ already vast number of job listings. Nearly 100 government agencies have posted as much as 3,500 jobs since July 2017, which are all housed on a one-stop microsite, making the process of applying to government jobs more transparent and accessible. He has also championed Overseas Filipino Workers by making the Pre-Employment Orientation Seminar (PEOS) online in cooperation with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, which is now mandatory to all intending to explore job opportunities abroad.

In the spirit of nation building, he establishes collaboration with government, NGOs as well as private institutions to increase the reach and access to available job opportunities in the country and help address job skills mismatch. Under his leadership, JobStreet recently partnered with the Office of the Vice President to further grassroots jobs generation and matching by supporting the Angat Buhay Program. JobStreet also partnered with Edukasyon.ph, a social enterprise that helps high school students make better informed career choices from education to employment.  

The wealth of the company’s proprietary digital data has also been turned into empowering labor market insights. Philip has been a thought leader, acting as JobStreet’s spokesperson for job market insights and trends. He has presented JobStreet’s Job Happiness Report, Top Companies Report, Fresh Graduate Report, Job Outlook and Trends Report, and Bonuses Report in various industry, media, and campus events.

Through his truly exemplary leadership and his desire for nation-building, Gioca continues to transform JobStreet into a leader in the Philippine online job marketplace, and in the job market as a whole.

The IABC CEO Excel Awards recognize the leaders of organizations who make use of exemplary communication as part of their overall business strategy for achieving goals, building relationships, addressing problems, and maintaining the reputation of their companies.