This January 8 and 9 during CES, Lunch@Piero’s, the lunchtime press and demo event, will once again be filled with outstanding technologies and hot stories. Enjoy two days of exciting demos, press meetings, product debuts and great food. This is where headlines are made! IF YOU’RE WITH THE MEDIA, request your invitation now, as this event is only open to … Read more
$20 Billion with gains in all regions but Asia largest market
I was invited to the Intel Core i7 victory lap party in way, way downtown south of the biotech area that’s exploding in San Francisco known as the dogpatch, is an area filled with old warehouses now used by film and art studios, and a few software development firms. On my way to the Intel i7 rollout I was making … Read more
Figure 1: Market share of laptop and desktop PCs. (Source: Jon Peddie Research) Figure 2: Market share of laptop and desktop GPUs. (Source; Jon Peddie Research) Figure 3: Market share of laptop GPUs (IGP and Discrete). (Source: Jon Peddie Research) There were some interesting announcements last week in Laptop Land as the manufacturers geared up for the impending holiday madness, … Read more
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Casual mobile phone games will eventually be free. The browser will dominate the interface of future phones, and once Flash is on there, pack your bags boys and girls, most pay-for-casual-mobile-phone-gaming will be over.
Game consoles, especially the vaunted Wii, have captured the imagination of game developers, pundits, and the channel. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you console games and consoles are way, like WAY bigger market than that lowly PC gaming market. Hmmm, always be cautious of the common wisdom. If you add up all the shipments of the recent big recent-generation consoles … Read more
Am I having Déjà vu again? Apple began in 1976 with the 6502 processor and, in 1984, moved to the 68000 with the introduction of the Mac. The company introduced the new computer with an amazing video that played off 1984—that commercial cast the tone and course for the company for the next 34 years. In 1994, Apple partnered with … Read more
Biggest increase in Q3 GPU shipments in six years – where’s the recession?
Having been in this industry almost as long as Gordon Moore and Jerry Sanders I have gotten to know a lot of people in it. And having known Nvidia since before it was Nvidia, I have gotten to know every single employee in the company and all who once worked for the company. In fact, other than Jen Hsun Huang, … Read more
The sudden realization that the emperor had no clothes and magnitude of the financial crisis is only now being fully addressed.. But, economists are unanimous that regardless of what governments do, it will take time, a lot of time, to rebuild faith in financial institutions and rejuvenate the economy. In a knee jerk reaction management is moving to cut costs … Read more
In 1999, the Internet bubble began. Most people knew it was a bubble, laughed at the silliness of most of the deals, but a greed factor and feeding frenzy, fear of missing the boat and being left outside took over logic. Three years later the stock market crashed (relative to the run up in 1999) and didn’t get back to … Read more
