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 ...
Is the third processor the third rail?
By now you have all heard of Ageia, the new company on the scene with a co-processor designed to run physics algorithms. It’s a clever and novel idea, and one that has people excited. It ...
E3 gamesit’s all about the puppy
The games and videos of games we were shown at the press briefings by Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony, plus what was on the floor in the big stands like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and others, had ...
Is the handheld market the PC revisited?
We’ve all heard that the handheld market is just like the PC market was, and the analogy is based on processors getting more powerful and more applications being added to the platform. It’s true that ...