The rush to digital
Huh? At CES and afterwards you are going to hear about how the TV set manufacturers are suddenly in a panic to get digital-ready sets. This is happening since the FCC’s announcement last month that ...
The Xbox360 is more than a box
Crackdown cracks up. (Source: Microsoft) A couple of weeks ago I had an opportunity to get up close and personal with an Xbox360. I had a comfortable chair, a coach, and a dozen new friends ...
Christmas is coming, what’re we gonna do?
Now that we have every conceivable type of media available on our PCs, in every form factor, medium, and bandwidth, with more than able storage, and on all the PCs we have including our laptop, ...
Money talksflag this!
Upton listens. In a classic example of getting the best politicians money can buy, the brilliant U.S. Congress is once again demonstrating its disregard for logic or majority view and responding to special interest groups. ...
Fertilizer – that’s all we are
I used to think we were in the technology business, and I was proud, first as a young buck engineer, and later as a trying-to-be entrepreneur, to say I was in the technology business. And ...
Pipelines – different things to different folks
My ears are ringing from all the pipelines that have been piped into them this week. Nvidia has one in their 6150, two in their 6200, and 24 in their 7800, while ATI has six ...
ATI, Nvidia: Outta the bus, now
FIGURE 1. JPR’s speculation on Intel’s Viiv architecture. (Source: Jon Peddie Research) Although Viiv is not finalized yet, at least not publicly (no doubt the OEMs preparing their holiday offerings know full well what’s in ...
Jon visits L.A. and comes back with pixels in his
9 outwits mechanical beast. (Source: Shane Acker) Siggraph was, as always, a blast. Although it was smaller in booth size, the crowds felt larger, and they were for sure exciting. This was the 32nd event ...
Seeing the future
Seeing the future Figure 1. DVB-T deployment. (Source: DVB Project Office) I can see your future and what I see is TV. The world has had a love affair with TV ever since it was ...
Who needs high-performance graphics – it’s just for games, right?
Last year the graphics chip industry shipped over 44 million high-end AIBs, about 54% of the total discrete shipments and 23% of the total desktop, for a total of 44.5 million AIBs. There aren’t 44 ...
Stupid TVs
CE companies better smarten up or they’re going to hand the home entertainment market to the PC You know how dogs can hear high-pitched sounds, and how some of us have really sensitive noses (like ...
Integrated graphics will kill discrete
FIGURE 1. Simple projection of Intel’s IGP growth in market share. (Source: Jon Peddie Research) I’ve made a lot of predictions in my 20+ years here at JPR/A, and fortunately most of them have been ...