HEXUS.channel spoke to Jon Peddie to find out the thinking behind the prediction of a drop in graphics shipments in Q4, but a hope that things would pick up again in the second half of this year.
Good to go, netbooks are a portable alternative to full-sized notebooks. They don’t replace, they accompany. (Source: Techlivez) There’s a simple rule in the computer, and other, industries—sell-through trumps sell-in. Companies that brag about having shipped levendy-leven million gizmos are not nearly as interesting or important as the ones who report they sold through (i.e., a consumer bought it and … Read more
Die Analysten von Jon Peddie Research (JPR) sagen GPU-Herstellern eine düstere Zukunft voraus: Die ersten beiden Quartale von 2009 könnten die schlechtesten Anfangsmonate des Jahres für die Hersteller seit dem Dot-Com-Crash von 2000 werden.
Chickens come home to roost for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia
Social networking has been climbing its elbow curve of popularity as Facebook reaches a much broader constituency, Twitter coalesces the attention-span challenged, and LinkedIn and Plaxo connect job hunters. There’s a world party going on for the initiated. Old friends are finding each other, new friends are strengthening their links, loves lost are found again, and all that wonderful stuff, … Read more
Figure 1: CES attendance and DJIA correlation.(Source: Jon Peddie Research) The correlation I identified between CES attendance and the Dow-Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in 1999 continues to hold true and CES continues to be a leading indicator, as shown in Figure 1. Furthermore, since I am predicting an upturn in Q3 of this year, I also expect to see CES … Read more
Wow, well this is news (or at least it was yesterday). I didn’t know what I thought about it all until I talked to a reporter this morning who forced me to take a walk down memory lane before I even had my coffee. God knows what I said to the guy that was useful. It felt like he was … Read more
First off let me make it clear I am not a Sony basher, I like Sony, and I love the PS3. I also like Microsoft and the Xbox360. Sony has said they won’t drop the price of the PS3, and has even stopped building the lower cost smaller disk version. Why, in a world of economic turmoil would Sony seem … Read more
We make such a big deal about the changing of the year that you can’t help but reflect on the past year. Even if you had a crappy year you would like to forget, you’ll think about it. And if you had a great one, like we did, you’ll want to savor it and try and make it last but, … Read more
I’m walking down the street in Chicago one sunny day with my kids and this guy and his girlfriend come up to me. He looks me up and down and says, “I’ll bet I know where you got those shoes.” I happened to be wearing a pair of shoes I had recently bought in Beijing and I said, “I doubt … Read more
TIBURON, Calif—December 5, 2008 The markets for workstations and professional graphics hardware performed admirably in the third quarter, but both show the expected signs of a cooling global economy. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has complete its analysis of the third quarter and reports the two tightly-coupled industries saw unit growth, but at a much reduced rate from quarters’ past. According … Read more
The world is changing around us and anyone trying to live in the past with the rules of the past is doomed. The old sage about evolve or die is with us more these days than ever before, and it’s not going to get any easier. Notebooks are rapidly replacing desktops, moving the venerable desktops into the specialty category of … Read more
