Robert Dow

Jon Peddie Research Surveys PC Gaming Hardware Market and Calculates Worldwide DIY / Upgrade TAM

TIBURON, Calif. – March 23, 2010 – Jon Peddie Research estimates 46% of the dollars spent in 2009 on gaming motivated PC hardware were directed toward what the firm calls the Enthusiast class. This is the top-of-the line stuff: boutique PCs, high-end processors and graphics cards, SSD’s, specialized gaming mice, keyboards, speakers, monitors, etc. JPR is forecasting a shift in … Read more

On seeing more

Peddie’s second law is—The more you can see the more you can do. Looking good, feeling better. And if you’ve looked at my blog, you will see what I’m currently experimenting with to test that theory. And a test it will be, when you have a video wall in front of you, your operational dynamics change. If all the displays … Read more

A look at the future—maybe

We’ve spent some intense and serious time with the AMD folks recently, in Las Vegas, Texas, Santa Clara, here in our labs, on the phone and by email, and we’ve gotten a pretty good understanding of the company’s plans and people—or so we’d like to think (or maybe they’d like us to think…). Putting aside Machiavellian schemes and ideas for … Read more

The Workstation Market Takes Another Sizeable Step Forward in Q4’09, says Jon Peddie Research

TIBURON, Calif- March 1, 2010 — Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports robust results for the workstation and professional graphics markets in Q4’09, as the industry successfully plowed ahead, anxious to put the misery of late 2008 and early 2009 further behind. The multimedia and graphics research firm has completed its analysis of the workstation and professional graphics markets and reports … Read more