TIBURON, Calif–August 31, 2010–The workstation market posted another round of solid numbers in the second quarter of 2010, but that growth is expected to slow in Q3. So reports Jon Peddie Research (JPR) after wrapping up its second quarter analysis as part of its JPR Workstation Report series. The technology and market research firm reports that the industry shipped 795,000 … Read more
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/workstation_report/
There’s no lack of information about the equipment people use to play games. The trick is understanding the data and putting it to good use. Although far more PCs are used for gaming than consoles, game developers prefer to develop for consoles. Clearly, it’s not just a numbers game.
Every day we (or at least I) read about an augmented reality (AR) application or installation somewhere in the world. Maybe I’m just sensitive to the topic since it fulfills one of my fantasies about a sci-fi singularity world I can’t wait to enjoy. The idea of location-based information flowing to me based on a preferences algorithmic learning program (like … Read more
Andy Marken continues his how-to blog on Social Networking.
Siggraph is enigmatic, sphinx like, all knowing, all seeing, and unknowable. Is it a trade show, an academic conference, a big R&D lab, a screening room, a job fair, an artist’s colony, or a gathering of the clan? Yes, Siggraph is. As such, it’s probably a little disappointing to some that it’s not more of whichever aspect they want. It’s … Read more
Marketer extraordinaire Andy Marken begins a series on social networking.
http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/jon-peddie-research-announces-2nd-quarter-pc-graphics-shipments/
TIBURON, CA-July 30th 2010-Today, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced its estimated graphics chip shipments and supplier’s market share for Q2’10. Overall graphics chip shipments were up four percent from Q1’10, while desktop discrete GPUs fell 21.4% reflecting the tremendous growth in notebooks. For the first half of the year, 2010 … Read more
Not having enough to do one day, Jon started wondering about all those lazy processors out there that don’t have enough to do. He counted ’em up and thinks they might be put to good use rendering.
http://www.khronos.org/news/events/detail/siggraph-la-2010/
We test a lot of things here at JPR and at JPA before that. We’ve been testing stuff officially and unofficially for 30 some years—you’d think we’d know what we’re doing. Hell, we thought we knew what we were doing. This last batch of graphics AIBs really threw us. We couldn’t get things to work. Benchmarks wouldn’t bench. Command lines … Read more
