Jon Peddie

Automotive Industries meets Real-Time at FMX

Traditional movie conference embraces industry   FMX is the conference to go to if you are an aspiring cinematographer, producer, artist, or animator, or anyone else interested in the movie business. First run films are shown there just before they are released (like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 was this year), and technical directors, CTOs, and producers from the … Read more

Nvidia’s Q4 FY17 results

$1.93 billion in sales, $507 million profit down 23% Nvidia’s revenue was down 11% from last quarter and up 48% from last year, GAAP profits decreased 23% compared to last quarter, but were up a surprising 144% from last year. Gross margin (GAAP) was 59%, down 1.3% from last quarter, and up 3.3% from last year. The company’s run rate … Read more

New restrictions on PCs; New opportunities for smartphones

In late March, the U.S. and U.K imposed a ban on bringing electronic devices larger than a smartphone in to the cabin on flights from certain countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Turkey. And in late April, the Trump administration said it is considering barring passengers flying to the U.S. from U.K. airports from taking laptops into the cabins.

Pixels loose in the house (or outside)

Can’t have too many pixels or too big a display For those of us who love pixels and can’t have enough, the San Marcos, CA based BlissLights Motion seemed like it was designed for us. Imagine tens of thousands of moving pinpoints of light created using holographic laser technology. Such displays were originally only seen at major theme parks and … Read more

Intel updates its Visual Compute Accelerator

Bigger, better, faster Intel introduced the three-chip Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) quietly in Q4’15. It was equipped with a 3.5 GHz Xeon E3-1200 v4 series processor with 6 MB cache and Iris Pro Graphics, plus two 3.2 Ghz Xeon E5- 2600 v3 series processors with 30 MB cache. The processors were packaged in a slick looking PCIe AIB, and the … Read more

Fujitsu releases six new enterprise PC and tablet models

Notebook, desktop, and table workstation and commercial products Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Client Computing announced the release of six new enterprise models across six product series. The new models are being rolled out in stages from mid-April in Japan. In its Fujitsu Tablet Arrows Tab series of tablets, Fujitsu is offering the new 10.1” Arrows Tab Q507/P-SP tablet, featuring the … Read more

AMD Q4 2016 results

$984 million in sales, $73 million GAAP loss for the quarter, sales and profits down from last quarter AMD reported its calendar Q1 2017, revenues of $984 billion, an operating income (GAAP) loss of $29 million, and net GAPP loss of $73 million, or -$0.08 EPS. The revenue of $98 million was down 11.3% sequentially and up 18% year-over-year. “We … Read more

Intel Q1 2017 results

$14.8 billion in sales, $3.0 billion profit, sales and profits down from last quarter Intel reported its Q1 2017 revenue of $14.8 billion, down sequentially 9.8%, and up 8% annually, and in line with the company’s forecast. Operating income was $3.6 billion, down 20% from last quarter, and up 38% from a year ago, net income was $3.0 billion and … Read more

First-quarter growth in U.S. weakest in three years

Consumers just aren’t buying it In the first quarter of 2017, the U.S. economy grew at its slowest pace in three years as consumer spending slowed. However, a surge in business investment and wage growth suggests activity will regain momentum as the year progresses, or so the belief system goes. The U.S. gross domestic product (GNP) increased at a 0.7 … Read more

New restrictions on PCs

New opportunities for smartphones In late March, the U.S. and U.K imposed a ban on bringing electronic devices larger than a smartphone in to the cabin on flights from certain countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Turkey. And in late April, the Trump administration said it is considering barring passengers flying to the U.S. from … Read more

AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo

11.5 TFLOPS and 11 billion triangles/second AMD has taken two WX 7100s and combined them into one AIB. The GPUs have 16 GB of GDDR5 each, and run two separate apps, or can be combined in Crossfire to run one app. Like the single GPU WX 7100, the Radeon Pro Duo is based on the Polaris architecture. AMD has 2x … Read more

Pixels loose in the house (or outside)

Can’t have too many pixels or too big a display For those of us who love pixels and can’t have enough, the San Marcos, CA based BlissLights Motion seemed like it was designed for us. Imagine tens of thousands of moving pinpoints of light created using holographic laser technology. Such displays were originally only seen at major theme parks and … Read more