GPU market up—Intel and Nvidia graphics winners in Q4, AMD down
Quarter-to-quarter up 1.6%—Desktop graphics sales up 3% second quarter in a row
HP’s Z230: the workstation market leader’s entry-class deskside… sort of
http://gfxspeak.com/2014/02/04/workstation-market-leaders-deskside/
Predictions for the year of the horse: it’s looking pretty cloudy
It’s the year of the horse, and it’s pretty much anyone’s guess what that means for the year ahead, but it is a perfectly nifty device to hang an editorial on. There are the obvious associations. Horses are strong, they work hard, they have lots of energy, and they can be stubborn or committed depending on what you think of … Read more
Seeing more – Is 8k enough?
Visual resolution or acuity is the spatial resolving capacity of the visual system—the ability of the eye to see fine detail. It is further defined as target detection, which only requires the perception of the presence or absence of an aspect of the stimuli, not the discrimination of target detail. So it’s binary—you either see something (think of two back … Read more
Deep-dive article on the Tegra K1 revised
http://jonpeddie.com/news/comments/deep-dive-article-on-nvidias-tegra-k1/
Deep-dive article on Nvidia’s Tegra K1 revised
In this deep-dive rundown and analysis of Nvidia’s Tegra K1 SoC, announced at CES in January, JPR analyst Alex Herrera previously presented his opinion on the relative long-term merits of two different GPU architectures. In that piece, Alex stated that for the long term, he would personally prefer an immediate-mode rendering architecture over a deferred rendering architecture (for example, of … Read more
The business case for SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual
http://gfxspeak.com/2014/02/03/business-solidworks-mechanical-conceptual/
Nvidia’s G-Sync Nears Gamers’ Nirvana
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1320783
AMD Posts Solid Q413 Earnings
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1320730&
Baby you can drive my car
So much of the news coming out of CES was focused around cars and robots that no one is even talking much about the latest, greatest, most giant TV in the world, whatever it is. A contender is Vizio’s 120-inch Ultra HD, Samsung’s high- and ultra-high-def 102-inch curved TV. All the great and huge TVs will play hell with your … Read more
Long-distance vision – What about 2020?
My pal and fellow conspirator in pretending to be part of a think tank, Brad Holtz, asked me to opine on 2020. You want my opinions about good vision?, I asked, never really sure where Brad’s coming from. No, you idiot, he said, the year 2020, but I guess you’d have to have pretty good vision to see that far, … Read more
20 Pounds of AR
”Good morning sir, and welcome to Waltmar,” the smiling older gentleman with wavy silver hair said, his false teeth shining in the sunlight, ” how can we help you today? We’re having a sale on 720p pixels, and there’s still some DVDs left if you hurry.” “Thanks,” Ranger said, “but I’m looking for some AR, I’d like to buy 10 … Read more