Robert Dow

Review of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Tahiti – Better than even the HD 6970

Announced in December, AMD began shipping the HD 7950 in mid-January, and through the magic of modern transportation, one arrived here already, in mid-March, so obviously you’re anxious to read all about its performance characteristics. Read our review of the HD 7950 HERE.

Moore’s Law, it ain’t just for the rich–Or is it?

{image_1} Mopping up; that’s what we used to call it when we would go to the next process size and integrate some of the peripheral components. It was also called jellybean removal. Companies like National, ST-Micro, TI, and SMSC hated it because every time there a mop-up they lost business for some jelly beans. Recently Microsoft did it in the … Read more

Embedded graphics: Imagination Technologies supplies more GPU IP than all others combined

Chances are your mobile device is running with PowerVR graphics TIBURON CA 23 March, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments for 2011. Mobile devices include smartphones, tablets, cameras, vehicles, and game consoles. The market for smart mobile devices is soaring. Mobile devices are not necessarily … Read more

Imagination Technologies supplies more GPU IP than all others combined

Jon Peddie Research announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments for 2011. Mobile devices include smartphones, tablets, cameras, vehicles, and game consoles. The market for smart mobile devices is soaring. Mobile devices are not necessarily replacing the PC, but they are outselling PCs. Read our latest release HERE.

HP realigns to improve performance and drive profitable growth

HP announces an organizational realignment to improve performance and drive growth across the entire HP portfolio. As part of this realignment, HP’s Imaging and Printing Group and its Personal Systems Group are joining forces to form the Printing and Personal Systems Group. The new group will be led by Todd Bradley, former EVP of PSG. Read more on HPs reorganization … Read more

Waiting for the inevitable? No company is too big to fail, not even Apple

How long do you think it will take for Huaweai to overtake Qualcomm, TI, Nvidia, or ST-Ericsson? How long before ZTE to surpass Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, or Cisco? Or how long will take for Samsung to overtake Apple? Is it inevitable, or is such speculation just doomsday talk? Remember when we thought DoCoMo would take over the world? Or Samsung surpass … Read more

New iPad app melds SketchUp models into augmented reality scene

A new viewer app for iPhone and iPad can take Google SketchUp building models and display them in situ. Using GPS and the device camera, it is possible to physically visit a potential building site and see the model in location on the screen, and to save the combined images for further use. The app is 3Don ARchitecture from 3Don; … Read more

“Steady as She Goes” for the Workstation Market in Q4’11

TIBURON, CA-March 12, 2012 -The workstation market proceeded ahead in the fourth quarter of 2011, completing a long climb back from the 2009 depths of the global economic recession that had slashed its shipments by over 40 percent. But that fourth quarter advance was more a case of “steady as she goes” than “full speed ahead”, reports Jon Peddie Research … Read more

“Steady as she goes” for the workstation market in Q4’11

The workstation market proceeded ahead in the Q4’11, completing a long climb back from the ’09 recession. HP is firmly on top, but the spin-off talk of Q3’11 appeared to dent sales in Q4, HP was responsible for 41.3% of units shipped in Q4, separating itself from Dell at which controlled 33.4%. Our latest edition of the WS Report Series … Read more

An Open Letter about the future of Collada from the Khronos Group

The growing use of Collada as an open, non-proprietary file format for 3D asset exchange presents new challenges and opportunities. The Khronos Board of Directors released a letter regarding the future of Collada and invited people to attend a Meetup at the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. You can read the open letter HERE.

Microsoft’s top Windows execs demo Windows 8 running on ARM

Microsoft has selected three silicon venders, TI, Qualcomm and Nvidia to build ARM SOCs for Windows 8. Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division, and Michael Angiulo, corporate VP of Windows Planning and Ecosystem team demoed Windows 8 on a Tegra 3 powered device at MWC. You can view the demo HERE.