Adobe changed up their annual Adobe Max conference this year and focused on their customers rather than on their technology. In the past, the conference has been presented by Apple CTO Kevin Lynch and often concentrated on major shifts in technology.This year’s Adobe Max conference focused on what Adobe customers are creating.
AIB shipments during Q1’2013. behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, but the drop was less than the 10 year average. AIB shipments decreased 1.6% from the last quarter (the 10 year average is just -3%). Compared to the previous quarter AIB shipments were up 1, 8%, and on a year-to-year comparison, shipments were down 6.3%. Read about … Read more
TIBURON, CA-May 20, 2013-Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics add-in board (AIB) shipments and suppliers' market share for Q1 2013. JPR's AIB Report tracks computer graphics boards, which carry discrete graphics chips. AIBs are used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, and other devices such as scientific instruments. They may … Read more
You know, I've been thinking, which is something I really should do more often. I have been writing over and over again about the huge changes that are taking place in technology, but I haven’t written as much about the simple changes that are equally revolutionary. So, some of the changes that have snuck up on us over the last … Read more
Although little was said about the processors in the new Xbox One, we believe it is a custom version of AMD’s newest APU with an eight Jaguar core CPUs and a big multi core GPU. The GPU will not likely not be a Radeon 7000 or 8000 core, but more similar to the UMA design AMD supplied for the Xbox … Read more
I want one! Microsoft announced its new Xbox, the follow-on to its Xbox 360. This is the next-generation game console, like Sony’s new PS4, but Microsoft is positioning it as the center of the (your) home entertainment system. The Xbox One is as much about playing movies and music, watching TV, and video conferencing as it is about games, but … Read more
NVIDIA’s mobile processor for mainstream smartphones – Tegra 4i, which includes an integrated NVIDIA i500 LTE modem, chewed through 150Mbps of LTE data in a demo this week at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas. First shown at Mobile World Congress in February at Cat 3 100mbps, this Tegra 4i demo is fully based on a software update – no new … Read more
Quarter-to-quarter negative 2.9%
The GPU shipment numbers are available for Q1’13, The news was disappointing for Intel, but encouraging for Nvidia and for AMD on the desktop. AMD lost 0.3%, quarter-to-quarter, Intel slipped 5.3%, and Nvidia increased by 3.6%. The overall PC market declined 13.7% quarter-to-quarter while the graphics market only declined 3.2%. Subscribers can download the Q1’13 version of Market Watch now.
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The SIGGRAPH 2013 advance program is now available, get detailed information on who’s speaking and what’s happening at SIGGRAPH 2013.The Advance Program is your best planning resource for five days of learning, exploring, and amazing interaction with tomorrow’s technologies. Get more information at SIGGRAPHITTI.
The ability to translate the physical into the digital and vice versa is rapidly changing our world. Adobe startled us at their annual Adobe Max conference. The company demonstrated its experiments in hardware; something we did not expect to see. The company demonstrated a new pen design, a ruler, and a digital white board for magazine production. The pen is … Read more
