Featured in this weeks TechWatch read about “The tablets of the season”, a report from the LA Game Industry Conference, what is going on at Pixelogic and a look at the financial reports of Apple, Intel and AMD. You can download your version of TechWatch here.
JPR found that GPU shipments during the first quarter of 2011 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was nominal on a year-to-year comparison for the quarter. Please read more on the Q1 2011 MarketWatch report here.
We’re only a third of the way into 2011 and already it’s been marked with tremendous and sometimes horrendous events; earthquakes, tornados, civilian uprisings, killings by terrorists and the killing of a terrorist, and changes in consumer attitudes and buying patterns. And yet in the midst of all this turmoil AMD, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and others have managed to report … Read more
TIBURON, CA-May 2 2011-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 Q1’11. We found that shipments during the first quarter of 2011 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was nominal on a year-to-year comparison for the quarter. The situation changed … Read more
The effects of the disaster in Japan are starting to take a toll on the supply chain. Taiwan manufactures warn of “acute shortages” in memory chips, gyroscopes, capacitors, chip-resistors, cover glass and even bismaleimide-triazine resin, which will seriously affect shipments of iPad-like tablets. Read more on the shortages the industry may experience here.
Estimates have ranged form two billion to three billion onlookers for the royal wedding, a whopping 29% of the world’s population tuning in to see William and Kate exchange vows. No matter the number it will dwarf the 750 million that watched the wedding of Charles and Diana. Tens of millions tuned in online via You Tube, CNN.com, MSNBC, a … Read more
Sony announced two new Honeycomb tablets, the S1 and S2 powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2. The S1 is a 9.4-inch widescreen tablet, the S2 will be a dual-screen tablet which has two 5.5-inch screens. They both are capable of WiFi, 3G/4G and will be PlayStation-certified meaning that you’ll be able to access the PlayStation Suite store and play some PS1 … Read more
Six years after the release of the monstrously successful Wii, Nintendo announces a new console; codenamed “Project Cafe”. The new system is set for release in 2012. Nintendo plans to have a “playable model” of the new system ready in June for E3. E3 being held between June 7 – 9 in Los Angeles. E3 Expo.
In this weeks issue a look back at COFES 2011, Adobe’s new road map and a breakdown of Sony’s PS3. Jon opines on the HPU and how GPU-compute will fuel astounding growth in computer engineering software acceleration, bringing better products to the world sooner than expected. You can read more on the HPU and download this weeks version of TechWatch … Read more
Just got back from COFES in sunny warm Scottsdale Arizona. Ensconced in the conference at a resort, and venturing out only at night to nearby restaurants, we were immune to the tremendous political stress this old west state is suffering through. Battling on multiple fronts with immigration pressure and unconstitutional remedies, minimal gun laws, tea parties, budget cuts, birther bills, … Read more
Dell has unveiled three Sandy Bridge-powered Alienware gaming notebooks: the M11x, M14x and M18x. The largest laptop the M18x will be offered with an overclocked 4GHz Core i7 Extreme, a choice between a pair of AMD Radeon HD 6970M GPUs in CrossFireX configuration, or a pair of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M GPUs in SLI configuration. You can read about the … Read more
HP today announced a new lineup of mobile workstations, the Most powerful being the HP EliteBook 8760w which offers a 17.3-inch diagonal, high-definition screen, a choice of high-performing AMD FirePro or NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics and up to 4 gigabytes (GB) of video memory. You can read about HP new line here. And take a look at our latest Semi-Annual … Read more
