The month started with Computex in Taipei, which overlapped with E3 in LA, PTC World in Orlando, and the SID display conference in Boston. The following week it was the AMD Fusion Developer’s conference (AFDS) ...
For a while now I have referred to the mobile phone as the ultimate PC—not a personal computer, a personal companion. If you look around in any public place, what is the thing you most ...
Our esteemed co-founder, Kathleen Maher, has invented another (thought you already knew about it but didn’t) concept—Digital Reality. Now we add that to virtual reality, augmented reality, and reality TV. Do we need more forms ...
There’s a lot of assumptions running around in this PC industry, based on hearsay and tidbits of data. We just finished running some tests on Nvidia’s new dual-GPU AIB, the GTX 690 (see p. 11). ...
I started out the week trying to run some tests on few machines, something that is frustrating enough without unwanted or unexpected obstacles thrown in your way. When I tried to run Battlefield 3 on ...
Of the great companies I’ve been fortunate enough to come into contact with, there is one common denominator: R&D investment. Nvidia’s CEO made a comment in a meeting recently that no super computer company could ...
{image_1} Mopping up; that’s what we used to call it when we would go to the next process size and integrate some of the peripheral components. It was also called jellybean removal. Companies like National, ...
How long do you think it will take for Huaweai to overtake Qualcomm, TI, Nvidia, or ST-Ericsson? How long before ZTE to surpass Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, or Cisco? Or how long will take for Samsung to ...
Im·ag·i·na·tion—noun, the faculty of imagining or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. The single thing that separates the losers from the winners, besides dumb blind luck, ...
Andy Grove is credited with applying the term inflection point to business. In his book Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove said that Inflection Points provide huge strategic advantages to the companies capable of moving on ...
For those of you who went to CES this year, you should have recovered by now. And if you suffered through 2011, you should be seeing some little rays of sunshine and hope for the ...
Did you ever wake up the morning after having had too much fun the night before and wonder if anyone got the license plate of the truck that ran over you? Everyone has, even if ...
