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Q1 GPU Shipments Decline 0.8%

May 23rd 2012

JPR has released the latest MarketWatch report that tracks quarterly GPU shipments. Shipments during the first quarter of 2012 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, declining from the previous quarter; however, this quarter's decline (of 0.8%) was less than the ten-year average of 3.1%. Subscribers can download the latest MW report HERE.

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EDITORIAL : Reality—is it all that important? – Chips and ships and sailing wax

Techwatch May 24th 2012

Our esteemed co-founder, Kathleen Maher, has invented another (thought you already knew about it but didn’t) concept—Digital Reality. Now we add that to virtual reality, augmented reality, and reality TV. Do we need more forms of reality? Well, actually you do. Digital reality shares a lot of similarities with augmented reality in that there is a 3D model, and a user, and an output, except in the case of digital reality the output is something tangible and maybe even useful—like an inverse cam for your 27-speed bike. If Kathleen is right, and she often is, we are going to …

2011. What was that about?

Doesn’t it seem like 2011 lasted a lot longer than a mere 365 days? This was a year that was up and down and up and down. In the tech world, the year officially starts in Las Vegas as CES. That’s where we go to see the largest TV …Click here to read this blog entry

Qualcomm’s powerful new HPU the S4

Initially leveraging a 28nm process from TSMC, Qualcomm has announced its Snapdragon S4 class of processors, of which the first member is the MSM8960 with an Adreno 225 GPU. The new 1.5 GHz processor (S4 will scale up to 2.5GHz) has Qualcomm’s micro-architectural design with four independent, proprietary ARM …Click here to read this blog entry

Future TV, touch it, look into it, wave at it

The TV of the future and that future will be here by the holiday season of 2012, will be amazing. Read the complete article

WebOS—the short term, instant developer opportunity

With all the discussion swirling around the sell off of the HP Tablet at $99 this week, there is a discussion point that has been overlooked. There is now a brand new business opportunity.Generally it is very hard to get developers to target devices that don’t have a fairly …Click here to read this blog entry

HP — breaking up the place

HP’s Personal System group, PSG, is a $41 billion dollar company. It is, IMHO, a jewel, but I may be a bit biased because I have a lot of old friends there. And, like any large organization, it’s not just one thing. In macro scale it’s a desktop PC …Click here to read this blog entry