The market for portable devices (mobile devices that we can carry including notebooks) continues to soar in spite of economic difficulties and general uncertainty. Although personal devices are not necessarily replacing the PC, they are outselling the PC. All of these devices have a graphics processor (GPU) integrated in the device’s system on a chip (SoC) application processor. Read more … Read more
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The total personal and portable GPU market opportunity projected to be 2.44 billion units in 2018
Perceptual computing and the natural user interface Intel didn’t invent natural user interfaces, but they sure as hell are going to make them come to life—so to speak. And to help make that happen, the company is putting its money where its, well, where its everything is. Intel has created a $100 million fund for perceptual computing development. As you … Read more
At Intel Developers Forum (IDF) this year, Intel formally launched the highly anticipated Ivy Bridge generation successor for high-performance, dual-socket capable servers and workstations. The appearance of Ivy Bridge-EP around now was no surprise at all, as the pattern of SKU and brand launches for each generation has been relatively consistent. Read on at GraphicSpeak.
Beyond the block diagrams, FLOPS comparisons, and power requirements, the new system on a chip had to master complex human dynamics. . This year, Hot Chips provided a very clear picture of where chip vendors’ heads are at today: SoCs, low-power, and mobility. – See more at: GraphicSpeak.
Xiaomi 5-inch MI3 smartphone: for $327 Rising star Chinese smartphone builder Xiaomi has released its latest smartphone the Xiaomi MI3 with a starting price of just $327. Xiaomi plans to offer two versions of the phone, one for China Unicom with Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, and another for China Mobile with a Nvidia Tegra 4. China Mobile is the largest carrier … Read more
Intel’s IDF promotes the Internet of things and Apple introduces new things It’s back-to-school time and the news is coming really thick and fast. Is Apple doomed? Is the PC dead? Did Miley Cyrus do anything really embarrassing in the last 24 hours? We’re all going back to school because we’re going to have to learn new ways to do … Read more
You can’t use the past to see the future—I’m pretty sure we’ve all heard that before, and probably even said it a few times. It’s especially true in the case of computers. Think back to the sixties—there was a one big mainframe for many, in the eighties and nineties we got to almost one computer each, and today we have … Read more
Amid the poor results that continue to flow from the mainstream PC market, the workstation market continues to shine, at least relatively so. Worldwide, the industry shipped approximately 940 million workstations in the second quarter of 2013, marking growth of 5.5% and 6.4%, sequentially and year-over-year (respectively). Subscribers can now download the Q2’13 market quarterly.
Citing Nokia’s extensive patent portfolio, the opportunity to enter into new markets and the flexibility with OEM’s Microsoft announces the acquisition of it’s partner Nokia. None of this comes as a surprise given Microsoft’s ambitions in the tablet space. The question remains if Nokia’s rumored “Sirius” tablet set to be announced on September 23 will go forward or become a … Read more
And in half the time! I was asked recently to write about the five most important market develop¬ments of the last five years. I have no idea why; David Letterman was busy or something. As I considered what I would write about, I found myself thinking about how mobile we’ve be¬come and how much we’ve been freed from our familiar … Read more
