Future TV, touch it, look into it, wave at it
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Its IDF week 2011 in San Francisco
In Paul Otellini’s keynote this morning Google Sr. VP Andy Rubin joined Mr. Otellini on stage to help announce their new expanded partnership for development of Android on Intel processors from mobile phones to tablets to PCs. They showed a demo phone reference design running Android. Intel hopes to see Android phones with their processors on the market in first … Read more
Party like it’s 1984
The industry is dominated by followers and just one leader Remember the famous ad Apple ran at the Super Bowl in 1984? It featured a woman with the sledge hammer. That was the beginning and the end of innovation for the PC cloners. That was when Apple took the leadership position in PC design, and has never looked back or … Read more
GPU Market white paper – free download
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/whitepapers/an-analysis-of-the-gpu-market/
An Analysis of the GPU Market – Free White Paper from JPR
An Analysis of the GPU Market focuses on the GPU and how the new generation of Embedded processors affect discrete GPUs. Jon Peddie research has made our latest white paper paper available as a free download here.
Production-Ready “Interlagos” Processor now shipping to OEMs
AMD announced shipments of the first processors based on its new x86 “Bulldozer” architecture. Initial production of the first 16-core x86 processor, codenamed “Interlagos,” began in August shipping to OEM customers. “Interlagos” is expected to launch and be available in partner systems in the fourth quarter of this year. You can read more on the launch here.
Workstation market behaving as expected in the second quarter of 2011
TIBURON, Calif- September 6, 2011 – It’s been a while since the workstation market’s behavior could be described as normal, but that’s an appropriate one-word description for the second quarter of 2011 – not great, not bad, but pretty normal. And all things considered, normal is fine. Completing analysis of the workstation and professional graphics market for the second quarter, … Read more
NEW WorkStation Q2 2011 quarterly report available
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JPR releases the Q2’11 Workstation report
At 42.3% of units in the second quarter, HP is now the clear leader of the workstation market, further distancing itself from number two Dell, at 33.8%. But the growth story from the second quarter came not from the leader but from number three Lenovo, which jumped from 7.9% to 9.9% share of worldwide units.
GlobalFoundries produces 20nm test chip
GlobalFoundries has demonstrated its 20 nanometer process node with the production of a test chip. The company – which partners with AMD, Qualcomm and Broadcom – demonstrated full support for every step in a 20nm workflow, and has invited customers to evaluate the technology. Production of 20nm is still at least a year away while Intel plans to roll out … Read more
Autodesk Acquires Numenus Ray Tracing Technology
Autodesk has acquired certain technology-related assets from Numenus GmbH, a software provider of high-end visualization technology used to render and review 3D datasets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Numenus’ founders will join Autodesk. Read more on the acquisition here.
The overal CG market will exceed $100 billion in 2014
The computer graphics industry has been a growth industry since it was established the late 1970s. Weathering the storms of the recession of 2009, the CG industry is back on track and showing new invigorated vitality and potential. Computer graphics hardware market reached $53 billion in 2010 and should exceed $67 billion in 2011. The market for CG software was … Read more