Q3’09 Market Watch now available
http://jonpeddie.com/MarketWatch.shtml
The democratization of the PC—the ubiquitous USB port
I remember back to 1996 when the first USB standard was proposed. I had done a little consulting with Intel prior to that and tried to convince them to use Philips’ I2C which had been developed in the early 80s as a CE inter-box communications system It had a 400 kb capability, and in 1998 got updated to 3.4 Mbit. … Read more
Vivante GPUs Power Marvell ARMADA Application Processors
http://www.khronos.org/news/press/releases/vivante-gpus-power-marvell-armada-application-processors/
The Future of Integrated Graphics report available for purchase
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/integrated-graphics-processor-report/
PC Graphics Market Soars Over 21% says Jon Peddie Research
Market already exceeded last year’s highs — Happy holidays ahead for graphics processor sales
Of hot rods and chipsets—Nvidia can’t win
What an incredible week this has been for Nvidia. It started out with them introducing the most revolutionary new architecture in a decade and ended with stories about them getting kicked out of the chipset business, and giving up the gaming market. Fermi is an amazing piece of technology—period. The Nvidia haters (they are legion I’m told) have been quick … Read more
Nvidia and Starting the Next Age of Super Computing
“I believe that we need something big and new every four years or so.” – Jen Hsun Huang Nvidia has been planning to be in the super computer business for the past three years. The company has had stellar growth since the internet melt down in 2001, and it has come to dominate almost every market it has entered, but … Read more
Different strokes: AMD and Nvidia’s approaches are diverging in more ways than one
It’s often hard in this business to draw clear lines separating two vendors’ technologies or products, as often they tend to converge on common solutions, the result of tackling the same problem with the same vision and set of priorities. And while it wouldn’t be right to say the latest generations of GPU technology from Nvidia and AMD are apples … Read more
If a dog ever caught a truck, what would he do with it? – Or … be careful what you wish for…
Remember the old joke, we lose money on every unit, but we make it up on volume? Sometimes, I wonder if that’s what we’re doing in the electronics business. Last week, at two conferences, on two different coasts, we got the lowdown on big to really big systems and the really small systems. At both conferences a senior person commented … Read more
Word has it that eReaders will open the next chapter
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6850769.ece
On GPU computing—it’s not about languages
GPU computing has come into its own this year and is, I think, well understood and accepted by industry and to a large extent many consumers and scientists. Although I still encounter people in all three categories ( poeple who have been using GPGPU, will use it, will never use it) who say, “Huh?” when I speak to them about … Read more
Marking 101 – Increasing Your Product, Service Street Cred
When our kids were growing up, they asked us what we did…really?? The answer changes … constantly. Over the past 20 + years in the PC/CE/communications marketplace, we’ve had to learn and relearn our job 40-50 times. Every time the industry changes, every time the communications avenues shift; life/opportunities change. Since the Internet (recently celebrated its 40th anniversary) and Web … Read more