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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 …

Getting vertical – what Nvidia’s acquisition of Icera means

Nvidia announced the acquisition of UK-based maker of baseband chips for 3G and 4G handsets, Icrea for $367 million in cash. This is a really big deal – not for the purchase price but for the impact it’s going to have on the industry. Now the playing field in …Click here to read this blog entry

Game Technology for Disaster Preparedness and Response

By Ted Pollak (contributions by Jon Peddie) Japan’s terrible situation with its nuclear power plant is heartbreaking. Especially sad are reports that some workers are exposing themselves to potentially harmful radiation levels. The bravery of these people is overwhelming. This got me to thinking about how game technology could maybe …Click here to read this blog entry

What is a PC?

The debate continues among suppliers, analysts, pundits, and web forum participants as to whether tablets (specifically the Apple iPad) should be counted as a PC or not. From our perspective the issue is defined (if it can be) by the processor. Fragmentation is finally affecting the PC market. Options …Click here to read this blog entry

Welcome to App World

This blog is being written with the full assumption that it's going to have to be rewritten in the next day or so, but sitting right here, right now, it sure does look like MacWorld has become iPad world … not that there's anything wrong with that. The good …Click here to read this blog entry

AMDs Fusion released today giving the consumer its first look at the Accelerated Processing Unit

The new Embedded G-Series is now available, AMD claims that the new Accelerated Processing Unit brings to market more computed capabilities on a single die than any other processor in the history of computing. The APUs are based on AMDs "Bobcat" core and come in single or dual core …Click here to read this news article