Nvidia should take a month off Boy, for as long as I’ve known the company, which is actually before it was a company, I have never seen such a torrent of bad news and bad ...
With the introduction of ATI’s and Nvidia’s new AIBs, and the lack of a really killer app, other than perhaps Crysis and/or FSX, we really can’t see much difference in the products anymore. I was ...
While driving back from the AMD RV770 press meeting (NDA’d till the 25th) Robert and I discussed the issue of CG. With GPU power accelerating exponentially, while maintaining the same price points (thank you Dr. ...
Have we created a new tower of Babel? For a while there was peace in the valley. The PC market had gone through its consolidation, we got over the internet bubble, the platform was stable, ...
Resistance is futile—you should believe That might beg the question, “what exactly is CG,” but I’m going to sidestep that discussion because it might distract from my main point, which is that the most important ...
With all the rumors and information coming out of Taiwan and IDF Shanghai about Intel’s plans, I decided it was time to wipe the palm prints off the crystal ball and have another go at ...
In computer games we have one word terms that are taken for multiword definitions. For example, if I said simulation what would think of? Probably you’d think of a game that requires you to use ...
Last quarter, the GPU industry reached a milestone—one hundred million chips were shipped. Mind you, that was the fourth quarter, which is seasonally high, and we may not see that level in this first quarter, ...
GDC has come and gone and we’re cleaning our cold weather gear getting ready to change for CeBIT. We’ve been to several analyst’s conferences, all tightly locked down with NDAs about the changes coming, so ...
ORNL’s JAGUAR (Courtesy of ORNL) On Broadway in New York City, a flop is something you try to avoid, always. In politics a flop preceded by a flip can be the end of a career. ...
Figure 1: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Trends, styles, customs, and governments come and go. Few things remain constant. Eating, drinking, housing, Maslow-type things remain constant. But the next two levels up are the ones that ...
This isn’t the first—this is the last back page I’ll write this year, unless I decide to write one more. But is being first really so important? Well, if you’re really first, that is, if ...
