If you compare software prices to the cost of developing console, PC, and mobile games, something seems to be out of whack. World of Warcraft costs about $50 million to develop and market, Call of Duty 4 – probably $20 million total, Gears of War $10 million to develop and a few more in marketing. The prices of these games … Read more
http://www.hexus.tv/show/2008/03/Exclusive_Jon_Peddie_interview_at_CeBIT_2008/
TIBURON, CA—March 10th 2008—When it came to the market for graphics add-in boards, 2007 was a very mixed bag. The year started poorly with a very disappointing Q1, but then bounced up in Q2 and rebounded even more strongly in Q3. So how would the market close out the year in Q4, with another move up or a return back … Read more
TIBURON, CA—March 10th 2008—In what’s become a common quarterly occurrence, Q4’07 again saw record highs in the workstation market. The market’s been on a roll, posting yearly returns in ’05 and ’06 of 22.1% and 21.2%, respectively. Now Jon Peddie Research is closing the books on calendar ’07 and reports the year finished with a bang. According to JPR, the … Read more
GDC has come and gone and we’re cleaning our cold weather gear getting ready to change for CeBIT. We’ve been to several analyst’s conferences, all tightly locked down with NDAs about the changes coming, so tightly protected that we can’t even tell you who they were with let alone any of the details about FusionPhenom, Larrabee, or G100. Oops. CES … Read more
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUST34889520080303?pageNumber=3&virtualBrandChannel=10150
I once had a cat named Alice. She was great company when I was working late at night, or very early in the morning. I would talk to her and she would look at me attentively, and sometimes answer with a little meow. During WWII Alan Turing developed the Turing test, which was a challenge and the basis for AI … Read more
ST Microelectronics just completed the Genesis Microchip acquisition, Trident’s stock has dropped like a rock, and Pixelworks still can’t get itself sold. Who could have predicted all this three years ago? Actually, we did. Jon Peddie Research published the ATV Report in 2005 and it addressed the difficulty of a video processor company being successful in the new integrated digital … Read more
The death blow came last month with the announcement that Warner Brothers would support Blu-Ray and only Blu-Ray. After that, HD-DVD was dead, it just wouldn’t fall down. Most recently Wal-Mart announced that it would sell Blu-Ray and only Blu-Ray DVDs and machines. You win some and you lose some and it looks like Toshiba was the one who lost … Read more
http://www.s3graphics.com/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2008/S3Gpr080215Chrome400Series.jsp
That’s what I wanted to know – how’d you get SLI to work on the 5444 chipset. I asked the folks at Intel. I got shrugged shoulders and apologetic smiles. Not being coy, the people I was talking to just didn’t know, but did, in true (and almost always reliable) Intel fashion, promise to ask around and find out. I … Read more
ORNL’s JAGUAR (Courtesy of ORNL) On Broadway in New York City, a flop is something you try to avoid, always. In politics a flop preceded by a flip can be the end of a career. In skid-row, a flop house is a place where winos sleep. To sit down without grace is to flop, and flat thong-like shoes are called … Read more
