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Where there’s smoke ... Jon goes chasing the rumors

By : Jon Peddie (Jun 2006)
There's been a lot of speculation recently about the CPU and GPU companies.

Will Intel buy ATI?

Will Intel buy Nvidia?

Will AMD buy ATI?

Will Intel enter the GPU market?

Here's what I think, and some of it I know for sure.

Small is beautiful – our market’s characteristics

By : Jon Peddie (Jun 2006)
Not small as in Lilliputian or pygmy, or small as in weak or puny, but, well, tiny, and shrinking all the time. E. F. Schumacher popularized the notion, and the term, in his landmark 1971 essays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful), and although his original thesis is long forgotten, the term isn’t; and so today I am applying it to the handheld and PC markets.

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