This editorial is dedicated to one of my heroes—Lewis Black. If you don’t who he is or what he does, start here. And then go to whatever city you have to in order to see him in person, search the TV for old skits, search the web. Then read this. You can sum up Black’s demeanor and style with three … Read more
http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/jon-peddie-research-announces-3rd-quarter-pc-graphics-shipments/
Market Slumps, Intel Soars, Nvidia Makes a Comeback
Watching SD after living with HD is like drinking Yellow Tail after having Pauillac Bordeaux. We adapt, it’s our design, and once we do we learn—and you can’t go back—why the hell would you want to? Want black-and-white TV? Want a three-speed straight six car with a suspension system like sponge cake? So now what do we do? How do … Read more
I was brainstorming with some friends/clients about what a workstation would look like five years from now, and I said, “You’ll wear it.” You will. My model can be built now, well almost. But that’s about right timing for productizing, miniaturization and evolutionary developments of some of the prime components. Here’s the model. You wear glasses. Lightweight glasses that look … Read more
Nvidia has announced its CUDA on x86 technology. Nvidia is enabling developers to move to CUDA gradually. They can develop, debug, and run code on x86 and get started on CUDA even if most of their legacy code is still based on the CPU. By letting developers work with both CPUs and GPUs, Nvidia might also be giving them a chance to see for themselves the advantages of GPUs compared to CPUs.
This week the world was introduced to the next, and possibly most significant, inflection point in the PC industry since dual-core—the embedding of graphics processors with the CPU. There has been an inevitable march of more and more integration of peripheral components to the CPU. So it should be no surprise to anybody that graphics are being integrated into the … Read more
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/opportunities-threats-and-changes-created-by-the-epg-hpu/
http://lucidlogix.com/download/PR_Lucidogix_AIB_082610.pdf
http://www.daniweb.com/news/story310610.html
TIBURON, Calif–September 13, 2010–Today, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced its market study: Opportunities, Threats, and Changes Created by the EPG & HPU – Tension at the Inflection Point. A genuine inflection point is occurring in the PC and related industries, the integration of powerful SIMD graphics processing elements with multi-core, … Read more
Twice this past week I was confronted with soothsayers, magicians, and fortune tellers—you know—industry analysts and company guidance managers. One of the problems with having grown up in this industry (but, I’d like to point out, not being grown up thank you) is that you’ve heard and seen it before—a state that feels something like Run Lola Run, Groundhog Day, … Read more
