Volume is no promise of success: 300pg JPR report on semiconductor opportunities in handheld market
Report identifies
sectors for growth, predicts consolidation, forecasts trends
Where oh where is this GP-GPU market?
The reason there’s no report on the GP-GPU market (and lordy, do we need a better name) is because it’s impossible to measure. Nvidia and AMD don’t know who is buying chips for supercomputers, there’s no one (yet) building “systems” except the labs, and the software that could be used on them like Streaming on Cuda aren’t selling very well. … Read more
Update: AMD announces ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17571
The will to kill—virtually that is
This past week I looked in again on Ageia (and will some more next week). Ageia has found they have to get closer to the developer community—not a big surprise, you say, ATI and Nvidia learned that years ago. True enough, but for a startup it’s not something you really want to have to take on; there’s a lot of … Read more
Q1 PC Graphics Shipments: Nvidia Leaps to First Place in Desktop Graphics Chips, Displacing Intel
TIBURON, CA—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s leading research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the first calendar quarter of 2007. Detailed first-quarter results are available in the Q1 2007 edition of Jon Peddie’s First Look, the firm’s quarterly graphics survey. The companion report, Market Watch, provides an in-depth … Read more
No one wins when competitors diss each other
When a new technology is introduced it always has some bugs with it, as do products designed to work with it. No new thing has, or ever will be, introduced without mistakes For example, when PCI Express was introduced the first wave of graphics AIBs had problems, despite all the testing and pre-qualifying the GPU vendors did. When Windows XP … Read more
Digital Content Creation market to grow to $4.3 billion in 2012
Changing market dynamics on all fronts offer new opportunities and several pitfalls as well.
Killer apps and the next billion users
At 3GSM there were 60,000 people searching for the killer app that would bring in the next billion users. Strangely, almost all of them found it—60,000 unique killer apps, imagine. Wikipedia tells us that a killer app is a computer program that is so useful or desirable that it proves the value of some underlying technology, such as a gaming … Read more
Reliving the past
At 3GSM there were 60,000 people searching for the killer app that would bring in the next billion users. Strangely, almost all of them found it—60,000 unique killer apps, imagine. Wikipedia tells us that a killer app is a computer program that is so useful or desirable that it proves the value of some underlying technology, such as a gaming … Read more
Professional graphics market stays hot, reports Jon Peddie Research
TIBURON, Calif—March 23, 2007—Who would have guessed the professional graphics market would be the growth story it is today? Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has completed market analyses of both the workstation and professional graphics markets for the fourth quarter and full year ’06 and finds that the professional graphics hardware market remains surprisingly strong. JPR reports that Q4’06 saw approximately … Read more
Not knowing what we don’t know, do we really care?
Good [pause] morning, how may I help you? I’m having trouble with my computer I see. What kind of trouble are you having? It won’t read the CD. I see. The PC won’t read the CD, is that correct? … and off you go into the black hole. For the more sophisticated among us, at some point in such a … Read more
Happy to just stay home and play
This week I’ve got a grab bag of random thoughts Management sink How to stop show’ing off As most of you should know by now, Intel has cut back on the IDF conferences. To which we say Thank you! But we’re not just being selfish. I would imagine the shareholders are saying it, too. Not because IDF loses money—it doesn’t, … Read more