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EVGA February Gaming Event

February 8th 2012

Sign up to register for EVGA's gaming event for a chance to win a Digital Storm Hailstorm PC, Intel Processors and a lot more. Sign up any time after February 7th, then play on any EVGA game server at any time between February 20th and March 4th to qualify. Official gaming will begin on February 20th at 4PM Pacific and continue until March 4th, 11:59 PM PST. Sign up and get the Gaming Event details HERE.

This week in TechWatch

  • CES 2012: bigger, and crowded as hell
  • Graphically Speaking: display revolutions, lots of ‘em including Lucid’s Virtu technology and Gamma Dynamics’ new ePaper
  • News Watch: Apple’s textbook strategy, AMD teams with U of IL, Instant Effects in the classroom, and new rendering technology from CoreCG
  • Financial: AMD, Intel, Microsoft have decent quarters. Apple’s is much better
  • Columns: Our man in Brazil notices that rich people have iPads. Mr. Marken goes to CES, what he saw
  • Jon says the action at the tech industry’s bazaar promises better times ahead.

EDITORIAL : AS CES goeth, so goeth the industry

Techwatch February 3rd 2012

For those of you who went to CES this year, you should have recovered by now. And if you suffered through 2011, you should be seeing some little rays of sunshine and hope for the on-coming year. And if you accept my premise about CES being a leading indicator, then you should feel pretty good about 2012. I first proposed CES as a leading indicator about eight or nine years ago. If you look at the following chart which covers the past ten years you can see definite correlations. What I think the data really represents is the manufacturers …

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