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The Silicon Graphics Media and Artificial Intelligence (SiGMA) team is hiring!

Do you want to be a part of the Silicon Graphics Media and Artificial Intelligence (SiGMA) platform team? We are hiring for multiple positions in multiple locations - if you're interested in knowing more about opportunities in SiGMA, please see the below for more details! Note: We have several upcoming positions – stay tuned as we’ll ...


Timing Capture bookmarks

Starting with the 2408.05 release of PIX on Windows, developers can add bookmarks, or annotations, to lanes in the Timeline layout of Timing Captures. Bookmarks are text notes that can be added at either a specific point in time, or to a range of time, on any lane in the Timeline. These notes are used to annotate aspects of a capture that ...


GitHub Copilot Extensions for C++ developers and beyond now available in VS Code

GitHub Copilot is now more extensible than ever for extension authors in VS Code. At the Microsoft Build conference, we announced that VS Code extensions can now leverage APIs for Copilot to build custom chat participants that users can interact with in the GitHub Copilot Chat view in VS Code. To learn more, please watch the Build session ...


Introducing private registry support in Azure Deployment Environments

As the cloud landscape continues to evolve, there is growing need for secure, customizable tools for provisioning application infrastructure to meet unique organizational requirements. Azure Deployment Environments, a flexible and powerful solution that empowers developers to easily deploy app infrastructure in a secure, compliant, and cost-...


Guest Blog: Microsoft MVP Developed Course on Understanding Semantic Kernel

Today we're featuring an AI Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) who's been developing content on Semantic Kernel. We wanted to highlight Jamie Maguire's work and detail the multi-part blog below. Here's the link to his course: New Course: Understanding Semantic Kernel – Jamie Maguire https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2024/08/03/...


Querying the PIX Timing Capture file format

The Timing Capture file format is a Sqlite database.  Queries written in standard SQL syntax can be used to extract data from Timing Capture files to perform a variety of analysis tasks without requiring the PIX user interface. PIX on Windows includes a Sqlite extension that simplifies the queries for common tasks such as ...