Microsoft started it a long long time ago, and now Microsoft may now be the biggest victim of it – giving stuff away. When Microsoft was striving for market share with its operating system, and later with its applications like Office, it established the policy of adding programs that were developed by third parties to augment either the OS or … Read more
Last week I gave a presentation at the Congress Of Future Engineering Software (COFES) in Tel Aviv on the Opportunities For Innovation In Design And Sustainability. I was the token hardware person at a conference for softies, and I asked the question of those people, “can hardware help in design and sustainability – or is it just something we take … Read more
I don’t think so. According to DisplaySearch (a division of NPD that counts screens shipments), Apple captured a 12.4% share of global mobile PC shipments in Q3’10, benefiting from the iPad effect. In other words, because Apple shipped a lot of iPads the company’s market share in “mobile PCs” increased.OK, go Apple, but, the press release from DisplaySerach makes me … Read more
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TIBURON, Calif–December 7, 2010–The workstation market continued its steady determined march back to the volume levels it saw prior to the economic collapse that kicked off in the fourth quarter of 2008. Jon Peddie Research has wrapped up its third quarter analysis of the workstation market and reports the industry shipped 849.7 thousand workstations in Q3’10, representing a robust 31.8% … Read more
I got Activision’s “Call of Duty – Black Ops” (CODBO) and EA’s “Medal of Honor” (MOH) a couple of weeks ago, but due to travel schedules didn’t get a chance to try them until late last week, so I’m behind every reviewer in the world, but I’ve got a few things to say. I play single person on a PC, … Read more
Modern up-scale TVs have as many or more holes in them as a PC. A TV now offers the usual LRV RCA jacks, Composite jacks, S-video, an OTA and/or cable ready F connector, IR audio, HDMI, USB, some have VGA or DVI, and most recently RJ45—and every one of them can serve up some kind of TV or video signal. … Read more
It’s still selling GPUs but not CPUs. The strategy might have me scratching my head, but when it comes to marketing its wares to the workstation market, that’s precisely where AMD’s head is at. Yes, AMD maintains a presence as a supplier to the workstation industry, plying its professional-brand FirePro GPUs, but as far as we can tell the company has thrown in the towel when it comes to selling its CPUs into the same space.
This is the year of the tablet, big and smaller, the e-reader, big and smaller, and the all-in-one desktop computer—all screen and no box. This is more than a packaging evolution, this is a usage model revolution, and largely brought to you due to new low power high-performance processors—say “thank you Moore’s Law.” As we slip into this new paradigm … Read more
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The major volume and/or super expensive software suppliers have had a free lunch for the past fifteen or more years. Basically making bug fixes and a few feature improvements they got performance boasts from CPU clock and pipeline improvements, plus I/O improvements, and dropping DRAM and disc drive costs with increased capacity – the ISVs have been the biggest benefactors of Moore’s law.
Intel’s Sandy Bridge and AMD’s Fusion are right around the corner, and the die-integrated combinations of x86 CPU and GPU have heightened the interest about how one very specific company will navigate this new landscape of SoCs. Nvidia, the dominant provider of discrete GPUs over the past decade, cannot make the same leap in silicon integration that its two key rivals will imminently launch. The simple reason: it has no x86 IP in its technology arsenal.
