I went to the doctor the other day, to see about a persistent pain in my right shoulder. I told the doctor that my wife thinks it’s from lifting heavy weights (like suitcases into the overhead bins on airplanes, and cases of wine—did you know red wine weighs more than white wine?). The doc said, yeah, that could contribute to … Read more
TIBURON, Calif.—April 6, 2006—It might not be the soaring growth market it once was, but the results are in and 2005 was an outstanding year for workstations and professional graphics. Jon Peddie Research has completed its market tabulations for Q4’05 and the full calendar year as part of the latest installment of its Workstation Report series. Workstation vendors shipped roughly … Read more
That’s not technically accurate and maybe a little cruel, but it’s a great headline and not completely off the mark. The stuff that we take for granted today, mip-mapping, texture mapping, z-buffers, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, tri-linear filtering, cubic mapping, and on and on, was due largely to developments on the big, old iron of computer graphics, the dinosaurs. Those giant … Read more
Both units and revenue down
Did you ever stop to think about all the portable media players we have? I’m not even a media freak and I have several. My phones, for example, will play MP3 tunes for me, if I wanted them to. Kathleen has a Rio flash MP3 player, and I have a generic USB flash memory MP3 player and a pretty blue … Read more
The nice warm press center at Cebit is packed with journalists testing the capability of wireless.. (Photo: Jon Peddie Research) This year Cebit and IDF fall at the same time so JPR is splitting up to try and get as much of the big picture as possible. On Day One it looks like it’s actually the small picture. Intel opened … Read more
The road goes on forever and the party never ends The party never ends at Cebit. (Photo: JPR) I can’t stand too much more fun. That’s all this is, y’know, fun, fun, fun, ’til daddy takes the T-bird away. Getting dual-cored in San Francisco, hung-over in Hannover in the snow, and San Jose for the games. The reality of it … Read more
3GSM, the gathering of the mobile phone industry in Europe, opened with sunshine and big ambitions. The town is booked solid with big-shot executives begging for reservations for the hot restaurants on Valentine’s Day like winos after a three-day binge. 3GSM this year promises to follow on a year of big deals with a year of consolidation and even bigger … Read more
Vista’s compositor in Aero Glass would choke on most of the computers
in use today—a potential boon for suppliers of add-in boards
Integrated still leads market, closely followed by Performance AIBs
Overall market up 0.9%
quarter-to-quarter; laptops take off – 34% year-to-year
ATI gains Integrated Chipsets for Notebooks against Intel
