It takes a village to make an SoC
As we were working on our new Multimedia in Handhelds report, I was struck by the partnerships and technology transfers that go into the SoCs developed for this booming market, and also by the lack ...
Las Vegas is broken – can it be fixed?
Friction—n 1: a state of conflict between persons [syn: clash] 2: the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another—Las Vegas doesn’t get it; they should make it smoother for visitors We ...
Looking backwards . . . and on to a great new year
Two thousand three was the watershed year for the PC and in some respects the multimedia and graphics market as well. It was the year we saw the leader of graphics unseated, and the number ...
Entertainment PCscareful, you might step on one
I’d like to think it was our enthusiastic forecasts and long-term interest in the Entertainment PC that’s attracted all the current interest in the category—in fact, it’s just become a category within the last year—but ...
Death of Comdex
This week in Tech Watch: DVDs, Home Entertainment, and, yes, Comdex 2003. Editorial from this week’s Tech Watch There’s not much sense in going on and on about the death of Comdex. Either you ...
Waiting for the late adopters
Everett Rodgers’s adopter curve. Jon’s adopter curve. Since we’re all real smart we all know all about the early/late adopter curve. We quote it and some of us even base business and marketing plans on ...
JPR’s best of CES
We have a list of favorite shows, the ones we say that if we could only go to or two they would be the ones. Of course, Siggraph is number one. What surprises a lot ...
The Army comes out to play
Lt. Colonel Wardynski, game developer What was the biggest hit at E3? Was it the new Matrox AIB, the unbelievable new games from EA, Nintendo’s price cut, the Sony party, ATI’s R300 in the Activision ...
The Stabilized World – there are aftershocks to come
The tectonic plates of CPU Land and Pixel World are grinding against each other in a battle for dominance. Caught in between CPU World and Pixel Town is the place known as, The Chipset Zone…. ...
E3 comes and goes
There’s not much that’s real in Hollywood, so the signs celebrating the arrival of Matrix on Sunset Boulevard simply repeat the obvious. However, as we made our way into the L.A. Convention Center we found ...
Microsoft in the living room
Microsoft has studied the TV/ PC/Communications convergence space for several (four plus?) years. The company understands the magnitude of the issues. But, at the same time, they’re still trying to improvise their end-to-end solution to ...
Enormous changes at the last minute
Nvidia buys MediaQ and boards the fast train to handheld devices Nvidia is buying MediaQ? Now that’s a good use for all that dough Nvidia has had lying around. MediaQ has a line of controllers ...