Going to Cebit wouldn’t be half the fun if it weren’t for the astonishing and strange things one gets to see there. Space simply does not permit showing all the wacky, wonderful, and weird things that people display at this mega conference. Here then, with that apology, are a few of my favorites. Best Nvidia FX 5800 heat-sink design: Leadtek … Read more
The working press in the Halles of Cebit. The messages for Cebit this year are pretty much the same. The big issues are Wireless Networking for fun and profit, Recordable DVD for fun and profit, phones for all, and cameras everywhere. Security, of course, was a major theme, and if we weren’t all already scared to death, companies peddling security … Read more
March 12, 2003—Jon Peddie Research has just released a market study on multi-displays. This 46-page report contains 46 charts and tables on the opportunities in the multi-display market, identifying user types, installed base, buying interests, and technology issues. There is a terrific market potential, and yet, a large portion of potential users don’t know about the concept, or how to … Read more
March 11, 2003—The number of mobile computers being sold is increasing each year, and has been for over a decade. There have been two steady developments in mobile computing that has contributed to the use of the notebook as a portable entertainment: the screen size and its resolution. Jon Peddie Research wanted to find out if consumers are using mobile … Read more
FEBRUARY 10, 2003 • TIBURON, CA—The DVD market is huge, and getting larger; very rapidly. No longer limited to home entertainment playback boxes, it is being combined with increasing numbers of consumer electronics products; computers, portable devices, appliances and industrial systems—DVD is everywhere. This report discusses all of these form factors plus the new integrated combo systems with DVDs in … Read more
Jon Peddie Research announces Q4’02 results in PC graphics report
Jon Peddie’s Market Watch reports chipset suppliers gain
Jon Peddie’s Market Watch reports chipset suppliers gain share in Q3’02 while discrete suppliers experience shipment
declines
It seems like a good time to reflect on the year past. If you look at the stock trends for the year and project them forward, the JPR graphics index goes to zero February 7, 2003, and the Dow Jones Industrial Index goes to zero some time in 2005, which of course is ridiculous and merely exemplifies the absurdity of … Read more
Jon Peddie Research publishes Q2’02 Market Watch: graphic chip report for
the second calendar quarter of 2002
The Studios have come out in favor of D-VHS for secure recording. So far, Artisan Entertainment, Dreamworks SKG, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios announced that they will use JDV’s D-Theater version of D-VHS. The advantages of D-VHS are many. D-VHS tapes have a 44-Gbyte capacity, allowing them to hold up to four hours worth of high-definition content and more … Read more
In a kind of business as usual announcement Apple has told customers that the new iMacs will be delayed as a result of LCD shortages. Supplies of 15-inch, 17-inch monitors are in especially short supply and the 14-inch and 15-inch are going to notebooks in ever higher numbers. We were told at Cebit that the situation isn’t going to get … Read more
Zoran has taken a stake in DVN a Hong Kong firm that builds set-top boxes for the China Cable TV market. ZVN says they’re happy with the deal because a relationship with Zoran will enable them to build set-top boxes at competitive prices. Zoran, of course, is very interested in the DVD as the heart of the home entertainment system. … Read more
