Future visions in the third quarter
The third quarter this year was a good quarter for looking at future technologies apparently. Many of the companies we follow held either their large event of the year or strategic meetings in which they ...
It’s time to get excited about 4K
The days of being a denier are over There are three things needed to get a market going: demand, supply, and affordability. When a new market segment is opened, the world pretty much splits into ...
Made any 4K videos lately?
Do you remember when YouTube first hit the scene? Do you remember people saying, Who the hell wants that? Why would I want to look at some dopey home video? How will they ever make ...
Are graphics worth it, do they matter?
How would you measure it? In my travels I’ve been in various discussions of late about the value of graphics—are they important? Depends a lot on the content is the short answer. The example I ...
CG and CV are black holes for processing power
Too much, good enough—nonsense Some of you reading this may know I’ve postulated a few axioms over the years, all of them about scale in one way or another. One of my favorites is ...
The PC isn’t dead—I told you so
What’s next? In terms of economic recovery, and overall growth trends, the PC market is a lot healthier than many others— automobiles, for example. However, although the PC market recovered faster than autos, it got gob-smacked ...
We’ve crossed the line, and there’s no turning back
What’s in a name? The Holy Grail in computer graphics is the suspension of disbelief—to tell such a convincing story with pixels that the viewer not only totally believes it, but thinks he or she ...
Work anywhere any time
Share your GPU, use your colleagues We truly have entered the era of ubiquitous computing. It started in the 1960s with time-share computers, expanded in the late ’70s with the commercialization of the APRANET into ...
Learning how to count
It would be a lot easier if you weren’t such a skeptic In mid-June, Intel said, due to stronger than expected demand for business PCs, it expects second-quarter revenue to be $13.7 billion, plus or ...
Trending up
I’m so glad we started doing these quarterly issues because it gives us the ability to look at trends over a three-month period and it also helps explain why our travel budgets are so high. ...
The virtual Internet of thingies
When everything is connected, and all of the data those thingies collect is somehow stored, all the fabs in the world wouldn’t be able to make enough memory to hold all of the bits the ...
Evolving graphics APIs
Waiting for the dust to settle All hell is going to break loose and the PC industry is going to go up in flames if another API war is launched. AMD, Apple, Khronos, Microsoft, EA, ...