Nokia is one of the only major phone manufacturers that has not succumbed to the Android wave. However, with word coming out that Android has surpassed Symbian as the most popular mobile phone OS murmurs started about a possible Nokia phone featuring the Google OS. It now looks like Nokia will dump Meego in favor of Microsoft. We will know … Read more
Sounds like a huge number but ARM thinks they can get there. With a stranglehold on the Mobile space and with new markets opening up they just might be able to; see Mr. Cramer’s interview with ARMs President and co-founder Tudor Brown here: CNBC
Overall shipments of graphics devices for the year, 2010 came in below expectations with an unimpressive 4.3% total year to year growth—a disappointing result given the enthusiastic start of the year. Q4 of 2010 did not boost the year as expected. Instead of the traditional seasonal pickup, market leader Intel showed decline, which affected the overall results. MarketWatch is available … Read more
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Holding our breath for 2011
One marginal transistor in chipset impacting SATA ports 2-6 forces Intel to halt production of Sandy Bridge. Production set to resume in April or sooner. Intel News Room
Overall shipments of graphics devices for the year, 2010 came in below expectations with an unimpressive 4.3% total year to year growth—a disappointing result given the enthusiastic start of the year. Q4 of 2010 did not boost the year as expected. Instead of the traditional seasonal pickup, market leader Intel showed decline, which affected the overall results. Release
The debate continues among suppliers, analysts, pundits, and web forum participants as to whether tablets (specifically the Apple iPad) should be counted as a PC or not. From our perspective the issue is defined (if it can be) by the processor.
Fragmentation is finally affecting the PC market. Options such as tablets, E-books, consoles, and even talented phones are doing jobs PCs could do. Also, consoles and Kindles. These other devices are not replacing PCs, but they’re shifting interest and mind share. They’re enabling people to leave devices at home for vacation and short trips. No more lugging a computer to a tradeshow. And a side-effect is that these alternative devices are reducing the urgency to upgrade machines. The money might be spent on new devices instead.
But for a market analysis we need a tighter definition – what is, and what isn’t a PC?
2010 came in below expectations with an unimpressive 4.3% year to year growth. Intel’s overall Q4 market share gained over 1% to 52.5%, AMD improved to 24.2% and Nvidia had a slight drop to 22.5%. All the numbers and details of the Q4’11 Graphics shipments will be released Monday in our new edition of MarketWatch. You can download a sample … Read more
This week’s issue of Tech Watch is filled with stories about new products, many of them semiconductors, SOCs to be more specific. SOCs are tricky devices to design, and get right. Almost no one got the first one or two right. Temperature, performance, battery consumption, and of course price are just a few of the macro factors that can undermine … Read more
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This blog is being written with the full assumption that it’s going to have to be rewritten in the next day or so, but sitting right here, right now, it sure does look like MacWorld has become iPad world … not that there’s anything wrong with that. The good news is that after pre-registering for the conference, I’m getting plenty … Read more
