We’ve all heard that the handheld market is just like the PC market was, and the analogy is based on processors getting more powerful and more applications being added to the platform. It’s true that there are some similarities, and the handheld industry has benefited from some of the learning curves of the PC. Among the similarities between the PC … Read more
400+-page report provides broadest in-depth analysis
of the dynamic worldwide workstation and professional graphics market
and technologies
That’s how I was feeling. I had just finished “Doom 3.” It took me a little longer than most folks because I interrupted myself to play “Half-Life 2” and then interrupted that to play at “Halo 2,” having totally given up on “Far Cry.” Don’t expect to see these games on your phone any time soon. The graphics/art work and … Read more
ATI overtakes Nvidia, Intel remains the world’s leading graphics supplier
TIBURON, CA—January 31, 2005—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), a leading research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the fourth calendar quarter of 2004. Detailed fourth-quarter results are available in the Q4’04 edition of Jon Peddie’s Market Watch, the firm’s quarterly graphics survey. Market Watch provides an in-depth look at the … Read more
Discrete Desktop
Graphics Market Grows, Nvidia Gains Share
JPR’s newest study, Handheld Multimedia Devices, is turning out to be one of our best-sellers. And the Consumer Electronics Show held at the start of every year in Las Vegas has been a perfect opportunity for us to conduct further research and to check out some of our assumptions. At CES we saw new products that confirmed some of our … Read more
Intel leads in all graphics shipments followed
by ATI and Nvidia
We’re just recovering from PT/Expo Comm China 2004 conference, where 10 halls of screaming, dancing, photo-snapping skinny Chinese women flaunted their mobile phones, each one promising to change my life. One of the problems with being in this industry for a while is avoiding cynicism. It’s not really that difficult because of the constant stream of truly innovative and novel … Read more
It’s all about numbers—who’s got the biggest, the fastest, the mostest. The problem is keeping it up. When you’re talking about a lot of zeros, then it gets even harder and little blue pills don’t help. Take the number of zeros in a trillion. The word trillion denotes different numbers in American and British usage. In the American system, one … Read more
Report Provides the broadest, deepest look at the
state of the worldwide workstation market and technologies today
Those lucky sods of you out there who have purchased our fantastic definitive market report on multimedia devices in handhelds, who bask in the confidence and glory of now knowing everything there is to know about the market, also know that the report predicts a consolidation of the players as too many suppliers chase too few customers for the same … Read more
