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Are you a Social Networking Expert? Be sure to keep your Networking Edge
Posted by Webmaster on January 17th 2010 | Discuss (0)
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Everyone considers themselves an expert on Social Networking and in a sense that is true. Social Networking is about people and the myriad ways in which they're using the Internet to connect for business, education, and pleasure. Jon Peddie's latest report "The Social Web and its Implications", by industry expert and technology pioneer Brad DeGraf, gathers the available intelligence on Social Networking, organizes it, and most importantly offers valuable suggestions about putting these resources to work. DeGraf also offers literally hundreds of pointers to valuable information resources. There are many reports available for Social Networking, but we have not seen any…
Analysts Speculate on Larrabee flap
Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2009 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie weighs in on the Larrabee announcement from Intel. Jon Peddie figured Intel looked at the flattening growth numbers for discrete GPUs and decided Larrabee didn't have what it takes to compete in a tightening market. But he's less sure if Intel will regroup and make a second stab at a discrete GPU platform or switch the focus of the technology to HPC. HPCwire has put together a few analysts thoughts in a recent entry.
Intel will never buy Nvidia
Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2009 | Permalink
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Industry analyst John Peddie has dismissed reports of Intel buying Nvidia as "naïve speculation." According to Peddie, Intel plans to design a "whole family" of Larrabee chips based on X86 architecture. Considering the recent FTC filing and Nvidia siding with the FTC, this rumour is pretty well stomped out.
Henry Choy Joins ActiveVideo Networks
Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2009 | Permalink
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Henry Choy, highly regarded as a thought leader in the consumer electronics industry for more than 20 years, has joined ActiveVideo Networks(TM) as Vice President, Business Development, the company announced today. Among many other feats, Henry Choy served as an analyst for Jon Peddie Research.
Intel shows off experimental chip with 48 brains for cloud computing
Posted by Webmaster on December 2nd 2009 | Permalink
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The new chip operates in a more energy efficient way, said analyst Jon Peddie of market researcher Jon Peddie Research. The 48-core chip operates on as little as 25 watts, which is typical for a lot of laptop computers. It operates at 125 watts when at maximum performance. The chip is more power efficient in part because it has 24 sections, each of which can operate at a different speed, and there are eight sections operating at different voltages.
The Intel Itanium is tottering towards death, analyst reckons
Posted by Webmaster on November 30th 2009 | Permalink
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In his latest musings, Peddie, the CEO of Jon Peddie Research, said that the "Itanium is trying to sneak out the back door." He said that when he was at the annual Supercomputing conference in Portland, there were no Itanium related announcements.
JPR Review of ATI’s Radeon HD5970
Posted by Webmaster on November 26th 2009 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie Research, not the usual source of GPU Benchmarks, does a pretty thorough review of the new ATI Radeon HD5970 across several benchmarks, including PMark, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Unigine, and Resident Evil 5. The results are impressive.
JPR PC gaming hardware forecast shows PC gaming is not dead
Posted by Webmaster on November 19th 2009 | Permalink
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I am an ardent PC gamer. I like to play some games on consoles too, but my favorite genre is the FPS and those I only play on the PC. We hear from time to time that PC gaming is dead, but according to the latest figures from Jon Peddie Research that is not true at all. JPR is forecasting that PC gaming hardware will reach $27 billion in 2010.
ASUS to Add NVIDIA Ion Graphics to Some Netbooks and Nettops
Posted by Webmaster on November 19th 2009 | Permalink
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The first of the netbooks to hit the market were underpowered when it came to decoding most video, especially if that video was in HD resolution. This left users frustrated with choppy video playback or the outright inability to play some videos. Analyst Jon Peddie said, "ASUS is a leader in small form factor PCs, and this step shows that they are aware of the importance of great graphics, even for netbooks and nettops. These PCs will run circles around most Atom-based systems, so they are an excellent solution."
Jon Peddie to give Keynote address for Khronos Group at Siggraph Asia 2009
Posted by Webmaster on November 19th 2009 | Permalink
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Dr. Jon Peddie will be joining the world's leading experts on computer graphics and interactive techniques this December at Siggraph Asia 2009. Jon Peddie will be giving the keynote address for the Khronos Group on December 18th.
