U.S. Economy Grew at 4% Rate in Q2, Beating Expectations
July 30th 2014
The United States economy rebounded heartily in the spring after a dismal winter, the Commerce Department reported on Wednesday, growing at an annual rate of 4 percent from April through June.In its initial estimate for the second quarter, the government cited major gains in inventories for private businesses as well as exports and personal consumption spending that added to the growth. Economists, who had been hoping for a full reversal of the first quarter’s decline, were thrilled with the second quarter’s numbers.Upcoming JPR Events
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Techwatch July 30th 2014
Share your GPU, use your colleagues We truly have entered the era of ubiquitous computing. It started in the 1960s with time-share computers, expanded in the late ’70s with the commercialization of the APRANET into the Internet, and further developed in mid-2000s as the concept of the cloud became universal. The final step was virtualization, and specifically virtualization of the GPU. Virtualization of the GPU has had many fathers. The first commercially available example of it was 3Dlabs’ virtualization of code space in the GPU in 2004 in the Wildcat VP. Also in 2004, Imagination Technologies enabled a single …When is enough, enough?
13 hours is enough for one workday The French, bless them, have decreed that work ends when workers leave the office. In a deal negotiated between employer federations and unions, workers can feel free to ignore emails from their bosses that come in after hours, and employers are being …Click here to read this blog entryGraphics Add-In Board report Q1 2014 - Charts and Images
Charts and Images for AIB Q1 2014 report Definitions The term “AIB” is an abbreviation for add-in board, also called a “card.” A “GPU” is the graphic processor unit on the AIB, also called the “chip.” Click here to read this news articleGPU shipments (MarketWatch) Q1 2014 - Charts and Images
As Figure 1 shows 2012 turned out to be a major inflection point in the history of the PC industry and resulted in fewer PCs and graphics chips shipping than in 2011—that is the first time that has happened since the Internet bubble meltdown in 2001. The data indicates …Click here to read this news articleThe next great era of computing started yesterday
My mom figures everyone who works in the high-tech industry must know each other. She’ll ask if I know Julia O’Conner’s daughter, “She works in computers out there.” I don’t even know Julia O’Conner, but my mom sees the hightech industry as a monolithic group of people working in …Click here to read this blog entryNew honors for old friends
The Scientific and Technical Academy Awards honor long proven No one comments on what they wore, and most moviegoers don’t realize what their work actually entails, but the winners of the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards make movie history as surely as did Marilyn Monroe. As usual, there is …Click here to read this blog entryWhat's New
- The latest edition of Tech Watch is available
The July 29th issue of TechWatch is now available, You can read Jon's back-page editorial Work anywhere any time, Share your GPU, use your colleagues and downlaod the latest issue HERE. - Our TechWatch Quarterly, Q2’14 edition is now available
We have compiled some of our best articles, reviews and editorials from the 2nd quarter 2014 and made them available in a new quarterly review. Which subscribers can download HERE. - The Q1’14 edition of the Workstation Market Quarterly report is available
Workstation market maintains slow-but-steady progress in Q1’14. "Cautious and tentative, but still headed in the right direction" — that's how Jon Peddie Research (JPR) senior analyst and JPR Workstation Report author Alex Herrera sums up 2014's first quarter market results in the workstation market.
- Intel gains, Nvidia flat, and AMD loses graphics market share in Q1
The new Q1'13 edition of MarketWatch is now available to subscribers for download. View Q1 2014 - Charts and Images HERE
