Subscriptions open the portals for media flow Today, Adobe is rolling out new improvements in its Creative Cloud services. Because Adobe’s products span so many creative industries — photography, graphic arts, illustration, video production, movie production, marketing, audio, and all the jobs that fit somewhere in between—these releases have a little something for everyone, but it helps if everyone is … Read more
What makes the difference where the rubber meets the road? FLOPS—Floating-point Operations Per Second is a measurement of a processor’s arithmetic processing speed and has been used since the early 1960s to evaluate and compare CPUs. FRAPS—FRAmes Per Second— is a benchmarking scheme for measuring how fast a graphics processor can update the screen. It is more commonly expressed as … Read more
Born of many fathers, VR and AR grow in popularity In doing research for my book on Augmented Reality, I realized many people were explaining AR and VR, what it is, how it works, who invented what and when. I think that is the measure of newness. No one explains today how a smartphone works, a PC or a TV … Read more
http://gfxspeak.com/2016/06/01/breaks-streaming-camera/
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/add-in-board-report/
PC sales are down, it’s the end of an era, woe oh woe, what’ll we do? Relax. The hysterical headlines of shares pushers on Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool, and various “news” sites are enough to make anyone think the world is coming to an end. As usual, the end isn’t near, it’s just shifted its place on the horizon. Yes, … Read more
http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/high-end-add-in-boards-shipments-increased-in-q1-2016-while-all-else-declin
Extended PC buy cycle drove the market
http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/for-the-1st-quarter-of-2016-desktop-discrete-gpu-shipments-increased-5.3-fr
AMD notebook market share increased 7.5% from last quarter, Nvidia overall share increased 1.7%, from last year
http://gfxspeak.com/2016/05/12/nvidia-unveils-quadro/
And I no longer care When I pick up my phone, in a hurry, to try and get Shazam to wake up in time to listen to the song I am hearing, I wonder if I’ll be very lucky and manage to do that. And then if Shazam isn’t being pissy, as it is now much more than it used … Read more
