Im·ag·i·na·tion—noun, the faculty of imagining or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. The single thing that separates the losers from the winners, besides dumb blind luck, is imagination. Some call it vision; others hard work, but the truth is the companies that died, did so because the CEO and his or … Read more
Augmented reality is one of the hottest capabilities demoed at MWC in Barcelona this year. In this video, Julia Duvall of Qualcomm shows us how Qualcomm’s Vuforia AR lets you play with a pet T-Rex, inspect hiking gear. You can view the Qualcomm video HERE and get a sneak peak into what going on in Barcelona
Apple has highest Q4quarter-to-quarter growth TIBURON, CA-27 February, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for 2011. We found that shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011 of GPUs in mobile devices (tablets and smart phones) had a CAGR for the year … Read more
Seasonality coming back? TIBURON, CA-February 27, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics Add-in Board (AIB) shipments and sales’ market share for Q4’11. The JPR AIB Report tracks computer graphics boards, which carry discrete graphics chips. They are used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, and some other devices such as … Read more
AMD led the quarter with 7.8% quarter-to-quarter growth TIBURON, CA-22 February, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q4’11. We found that shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, the new seasonality that has … Read more
Jon Peddie Research has released its latest edition of MarketWatch. AMD’s overall graphics market share increased 1,8% from last quarter due mostly to HPU shipments.Intel continues to be the overall market share leader, elevated by Core i5 EPG CPUs, Sandy Bridge, and Pineview Atom sales for Netbooks. Nvidia showed good desktop discrete market share gain (3.7% qtr-qtr), and 0.1% in … Read more
Using the latest tools from SolidWorks, Nvidia, and Dell, Trek designed a new mountain racing bike that took top honors in 2011. “By powering 3D simulations in SolidWorks, the Quadro cards let us see hot spots in the frame structure right away. Faster iterations in simulation meant we were able to design the bike more cost-effectively and get to tool … Read more
Registration is now open for its third GPU Technology Conference in the U.S., one of the world’s fastest-growing events focused on computational science and visualization. GTC 2012 will be May 14-17, 2012 in San Jose. Nvidia’s global series of events focuses on how GPUs are transforming science, engineering, and many other computational-based endeavors. Register HERE.
Andy Grove is credited with applying the term inflection point to business. In his book Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove said that Inflection Points provide huge strategic advantages to the companies capable of moving on them. Intel has continued to embrace the strategy and everyone else would like to. Today, everyone uses the term inflection point as if they invented … Read more
Quarterly revenue topped a half-billion euros for the first time in company history. Dassault Systèmes ended 2011 on a strong note, with solid growth for both the quarter and in full-year results. Revenues broke all-time highs for both SolidWorks and the PLM products in the quarter and for the year. Read more on Dassault’s record quarter HERE.
Sign up to register for EVGA’s gaming event for a chance to win a Digital Storm Hailstorm PC, Intel Processors and a lot more. Sign up any time after February 7th, then play on any EVGA game server at any time between February 20th and March 4th to qualify. Official gaming will begin on February 20th at 4PM Pacific and … Read more
Lucid has also developed intelligent real-time graphics pipeline flow that provides balance between visual quality, frame rates, interaction responsiveness that affect game immersion. The idea is to improve gaming performance, responsiveness and visual quality by intelligently predicting redundant rendering tasks. Read more on Jon’s article on Lucid HERE.
