Hubert Nguyen

Hubert Nguyen is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo. He has a passion for technology and enjoys sharing it.

He is a retired computer graphics engineer who programmed special-effects such as real-time fire or hair rendering, for NVIDIA. Hubert also managed the NVIDIA developer education program and edited “GPU Gems 3“, a best-selling 3D programming book.

Before joining NVIDIA, Hubert was at 3dfx interactive. Prior to that, he worked on 3D-Engines in various video games.

Hubert started to program computer graphics in 1991 when he was involved in the underground European DemoScene. In 1994, his “Impact Studios” team won the world’s largest PC demo competition: The Party, in Denmark.

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Recent stories this author

The Futuristic Healthcare Smart Bed: AIGEM-Y300

08/06/2023, In late June 2023, I had a fascinating conversation with AIGEM, an emerging South Korean healthcare company led by CEO Young Goo Lee. Founded a bit more than a year ago in January 2022, AIGEM has already heralded what they term the “4th industrial...

Lenovo Launches New Workstations, With Aston Martin DNA

03/11/2023, This week, Lenovo launched a trio of new ThinkStation workstations. The flagship product is the ThinkStation PX (P10), which can be configured with extraordinarily powerful components, followed by the ThinkStation P7 and ThinkStation P5.Let’s focus...

New Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 and Z13 AMD-Powered Laptops

02/26/2023, At Mobile World Congres 2023, Lenovo is introducing many new products, but one that caught our attention is the second-generation Lenovo ThinkPad Z-Series, with the Z16 and Z13 laptops. The original Z-Series was introduced last year at CES 2022.The new...

Snapdragon X75 Modem Powers 5G Advanced

02/20/2023, Ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC), Qualcomm has announced a new 5G modem, the Snapdragon X75 5G Modem-RF System, which introduces support for 5G Advanced and WiFi 7, the most recent 5G standard and brand for the 3GPP Release 18 standard.As per the...

Ubergizmo’s Best Of K-Startup @ CES

01/15/2023, At CES 2023, Korea had what seemed like the second-largest startup presence after the French contingent. There were an impressive number of Korean startups in different locations, and the K-Startup area was probably the busiest. We had a chance to visit...

Ubergizmo’s Top 3 MIK Products @ CES 2023

01/14/2023, Ubergizmo was a media partner of the Global Online Meetup, Best of MIK Award @ CES 2023, an award that rewards the best startups that have already passed several drastic selections before arriving at this culminating point.MIK stands for “Made in...

NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4 Brings AI-Driven Eye Contact

01/14/2023, NVIDIA Broadcast is getting an update that brings the “eye contact” feature to the public. With it, NVIDIA RTX users can appear to be looking directly into the camera’s lens while they are really looking in a slightly different...

Alienware 500Hz Gaming Monitor (AW2524H)

01/03/2023, In all the excitement of CES, it’d be easy to overlook a product as we look at thousands of pitches. However, it is uncommon, but not unheard of, to see 500 and Hz together in monitor specifications, so we had to take a closer look.Dell/Alienware...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, Now Mobile

01/03/2023, NVIDIA has had an incredible run with its RTX 30 Series for mobiles, and the company is poised to double down with the new RTX 40 Series, which features higher peak performance and better performance per Watt, a dream combination for mobility...

Acer X45 45-Inch OLED Gaming Monitor

01/03/2023, CES is typically where many fantastic gaming monitors are revealed for the year’s first half, while IFA Berlin is the equivalent for the second half. This time, Acer introduces the Acer X45, a new OLED curved 21:9 gaming monitor.Since it uses the...

Acer Predator Helios 18 and 16 New Gaming Laptops

01/03/2023, At CES 2023, Acer introduced new Predator Helios gaming laptops, and the 18-inch model caught our attention. As computer technology and manufacturing improves, it becomes possible to build reasonably mobile laptops with this enormous display size, and we...

Dell UltraSharp 43 4K USB-C Hub Monitor

01/03/2023, Dell announced several Ultrasharp monitors at CES 2023, covering a large spectrum of the professional market. That said, most people with enough room for a very large computer monitor should look at the new Dell UltraSharp 43 4K USB-C Hub (model...

Dell Alienware Concept NYX Controller for Future Gaming

01/03/2023, Dell/Alienware introduced many future concepts under the NYX brand in 2022. Now we’re getting more details at CES 2023, and the Concept NYX Controller is probably the most interesting and potentially pragmatic part of NYX.Unlike its 2022 equivalent,...

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Benchmarks and Performance

12/18/2022, Qualcomm has recently launched its new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform, and you can read our complete Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 overview to learn the key functionalities and new features.We also had a chance to run some benchmarks on development handsets Qualcomm...

trinamiX Live Skin Face Authentication Boosts Security

12/04/2022, Unlocking a smartphone securely with one’s face is a very convenient and highly sought-after feature. However, it is not as secure as fingerprints or long passwords because of the technologies involved in various face ID implementations.Looking at...

MediaTek T800 and T830 5G Modems for Extreme Speeds

11/12/2022, Along with the Dimensity 9200 SoC, MediaTek has released the MediaTek T800 5G Modem that accompanies the Dimensity 9200. It is slated to be utilized beyond the smartphone market and may find itself in future industrial, IoT, Laptops, and...

MediaTek demonstrates WiFi 7 At Multi Gb Speeds

11/12/2022, At its recent Executive Summit, MediaTek talked about its Filogic 880 and Filogic 330 WiFi 7 solutions (announced in May 2023) and, more importantly, showed live demonstrations of both the router and client sides. One of the demos features a speed of...

Ubergizmo’s Best of ITS 2022

10/29/2022, The 23rd Innovative Technology Show (ITS) was held last week in the COEX center in Gangnam, Seoul. Like last year, Ubergizmo was an ITS Awards jury member (via video conferencing). We carefully reviewed and rated the value proposition and technical...