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On seeing more

Posted by Jon Peddie on March 19th 2010 | Discuss
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Peddie’s second law is—The more you can see the more you can do. Looking good, feeling better. And if you’ve looked at my blog, you will see what I’m currently experimenting with to test that theory. And a test it will be, when you have a video wall in front of you, your operational dynamics change. If all the displays are filled with individual applications, then you want the screens about 60cm or two feet or less away from your eye. If you are using all six in an extended desktop mode then you want them a meter or three feet…

A look at the future—maybe

Posted by Jon Peddie on March 2nd 2010 | Discuss
Tags: gpu nvidia amd ati graphics intel opencl gpgpu

We’ve spent some intense and serious time with the AMD folks recently, in Las Vegas, Texas, Santa Clara, here in our labs, on the phone and by email, and we’ve gotten a pretty good understanding of the company’s plans and people—or so we’d like to think (or maybe they’d like us to think…). Putting aside Machiavellian schemes and ideas for novels, being able to understand a company and its people keeps you from making toady comments, misstating facts, and hopefully making bad forecasts. It also helps you better understand other companies in the market. AMD is into sweets-SSSS In June of…