Did the earth move for you?
What did CES actually accomplish for you? Most of the dust has settled, most of the hangovers are over, most of the pain in your legs, and other more sensitive parts of your body has ...
The GPUs of 2016
The suppliers had a great year and so did the customers GPUs have found their way into just about every corner of science, industry, design, automotive, and entertainment. GPUs are the heart of the PC’s ...
Can Nvidia continue to delight investors?
How does a company increase sales in a market where shipments are decreasing? For those of you who watch Nvidia, you will have taken note of its meteoric rise in share price since September 2015 ...
This is such a crazy, exciting industry
If the PC is dead, how come so many companies are making money from it? The PC industry has been exciting since the arrival of the Intel 4004 and Gordon Moore’s observation about the doubling ...
Awww, is the air slipping out of your balloon?
That’s OK, we’ll get you a new one in a couple of years Hiya folks. Ya say ya lost your job today? Ya say it’s 4 a.m. and your kids ain’t home from school yet? ...
Getting ready for…
There’s so much to prepare for As October sadly comes to an end, and daylight savings time in the U.S. with it, we have to look to the future and be prepared for the next ...
Is VR the new electricity?
Is AI the new light bulb? Virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) remind me of stories I’ve read describing the late 1800s and early 1900s when people were finding novel uses for electricity, like ...
Summer is over and work begins
Fall really is a wonderful time of year. The kids are back at school and still too enthusiastic about their new clothes and seeing their friends to remember that it’s a terrible soul-crushing place. It’s ...
Call me lazy, backward, a troglodyte, whatever
I didn’t create the problem, I’m a victim like you I’m not buying a new PC. Even though the one I have is embarrassingly old, going on three years now, and even though it crashes ...
You will know computers really work when . . .
Computer—what’s that? I kinda’ grew up in the computer era, beginning with punch cards and patch panels. At the time it was exciting, the newest thing. Only super geeks could play with computers, and we ...
The letters of the future
Although we speak in code, we all have the decoder We’ve lived through, enjoyed, and profited from the PC era, and of course it’s not over yet, just shifting to the high end. As the ...
On Siggraph and other conferences
Resiliency due to relevance Siggraph and other shows are right-sized for the audience they serve. Allow me to elaborate. We at-tend, as visitors, and occasionally as speakers, several conferences a year (maybe as many as ...