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Announcements at Virtualize Conference New GPUs, new company

TIBURON, CA-October 26, 2015– Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today revealed three companies will be making major new product announcements at the Virtualize Conference, 29 October, at the Hyatt at SFO. http://www.jonpeddie.com/events/details/jpr-virtualize-2015 AMD will outline new multiuser graphics technology. “AMD Multiuser GPU technology embedded into AMD GPUs is designed to deliver … Read more

The IP companies creep toward an SoC

To build a truly heterogeneous SoC, you need at least four processors The announcement of ViriSilicon’s acquisition of Vivante heats up the IP space, and puts pressure on Synopsys (which recently acquire Virlogic, which previously acquired ARC) to get a GPU, and ViriSilicon to get a CPU, so they can compete across the board with ARM and Imagi-nation Technologies. Synopsys … Read more

Jon Peddie Research Announces Virtualize 2015 Agenda

Tiburon, Calif. – October 16, 2015 – Jon Peddie Research (JPR) is proud to announce the agenda for the second annual Virtualize 2015 conference taking place on October 29, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. The Virtualize 2015 conference will provide attendees an overview of the options available and the ways in which organizations can compete more effectively … Read more

Gaming Notebook sales take breather as Desktop trend for 4K/UHD builds Momentum

TIBURON, Calif— 15 October, 2015.The global PC gaming hardware market is forecast to slightly recede in 2015 but, but less than the overall PC market, and then resume growth in 2016. However, all recession and growth within the market is not equal. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) believes that notebooks bought for gaming have entered a challenging sales environment as PC … Read more

VeriSilicon to Acquire Vivante

VeriSilicon Holdings Co., a Shanghai-based provider of IPs and custom silicon design services, announced Monday (Oct. 12) a definitive agreement to acquire Vivante Corp., a Santa Clara-based embedded GPU IP vendor, in an all-stock transaction.The two companies — both privately held — declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but said the combined company’s revenue, as of December 31, … Read more

Will VR reverse the discrete GPU trend?

Discrete GPU shipments have been in decline for some time, as software to take advantage of their power lags and Moore’s Law let free- GPUs, those integrated GPUs that come with the processor and aren’t charged for, catch up and run three- and four-year-old apps pretty well. Seems most folks are happy with three- or four-year-old apps, and operating systems, … Read more

Summer’s over

Let’s start buying stuff The fed didn’t raise interest rates because the economy and inflation are flat. China’s artificially stimulated and misrepresented growth is off (even China couldn’t hide it this time). Russia is taking over everything from Ukraine to Syria, and leaving the rest to the Daesh. The polar bears are starving because of global warming, and the U.S. … Read more

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The brave new world of being a packet

Google understands packets better than any, any, company on the planet. If you have trouble with that statement, go back to the sports page or People, and skip this. Google is developing an autonomous, cute, small, bug-like four-wheel vehicle with an electric propulsion system and a zillion computers and sen¬sors. These tiny cars, if that’s even the correct name for … Read more

A healthier workstation market calms nerves in Q2’15: Jon Peddie Research

After a surprisingly painful first quarter, stakeholders in the markets for workstations and professional GPUs were looking for far healthier results in Q2'15, along with reassurance the market's fortunes were not following the downward path of the broader PC industry. According to the market and technology research firm, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), they got both, as the industry breathed a … Read more

The fastest, smallest enthusiast AIB ever, AMD’s R9 Nano

3D memory, wide memory buss, and very cool AMD says the new R9 Nano is the fastest Mini ITX graphics card ever designed to drive 4K gaming in the living room and can do it because of ultra-quiet, ultra-compact PC designs. We first saw the AIB at E3 in June, and we’ve been waiting for it ever since. The R9 … Read more

How virtual is

AR lets you move; VR is restricted because you can’t see the real world and so you bump into things. Sitting still in a planetarium or movie is not VR just because things are in 3D, or offer a 180-degree FOV (field of vision). To be VR it has to be interactive. And yet, the VR we have today is … Read more