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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 …

AMD, ARM, and all that jazz — reading between the lines will make you cross-eyed

There have been persistent rumors, opinions, and speculation since AMD’s Fusion Developer’s Summit (AFDS) that because ARM was one of the keynote speakers a grand collusion was in the works—the ARMing of AMD.The concept gets fuel from the abrupt discharge of Dirk Meyer, the company’s former president for allegedly …Click here to read this blog entry

Tablets — the canary in the PC tunnel?

The second quarter by all accounts so far has not been a blockbuster, in fact in some places it’s been a career buster. The DJIA wobbled, not many new jobs were created, and the politics in the US got even more rancorous if such a thing is possible. In …Click here to read this blog entry

WebGL Security - Kill it before it grows?

When Khronos launched the WebGL specifications with strong backing from Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera we thought at least peace had come to the 3D web valley. We should have known better; seems that there are competing vested interests in proprietary software and plug-ins that will put a few …Click here to read this blog entry

Ambarella sets stage for IPO

Santa Clara based Image processing chip vendor Ambarella Inc.has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of shares. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined, Ambarella. You …Click here to read this news article

The real 3D - Looking at all sides of 3D reveals a future far beyond pixels

3D is an illusion. Right, got that. Ever since I’ve been working around the computer industry I’ve had people tell me 3D is an illusion. Like, I didn’t know that. The computer screen is a 2D surface, and when we look at objects and turn them, or run into …Click here to read this blog entry