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Nvidia and Qualcomm share design win at Xiaomi

Xiaomi 5-inch MI3 smartphone: for $327 Rising star Chinese smartphone builder Xiaomi has released its latest smartphone the Xiaomi MI3 with a starting price of just $327. Xiaomi plans to offer two versions of the ...

The back-to-school season kicks off with a bang

Intel’s IDF promotes the Internet of things and Apple introduces new things It’s back-to-school time and the news is coming really thick and fast. Is Apple doomed? Is the PC dead? Did Miley Cyrus do ...

Workstations outshine the broader PC market (again) in Q2’13

Amid the poor results that continue to flow from the mainstream PC market, the workstation market continues to shine, at least relatively so. Worldwide, the industry shipped approximately 940 million workstations in the second quarter ...

Microsoft acquires Nokia for $7.17 Billion

Citing Nokia’s extensive patent portfolio, the opportunity to enter into new markets and the flexibility with OEM’s Microsoft announces the acquisition of it’s partner Nokia. None of this comes as a surprise given Microsoft’s ambitions ...

Five years: yet another long strange trip …

And in half the time! I was asked recently to write about the five most important market develop¬ments of the last five years. I have no idea why; David Letterman was busy or something. As ...

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Visual Magic 3D book review

Compute Scotland takes a look at Jon Peddie’s new book “The History of Visual Magic in Computers”. In his First Law, Jon Peddie “In graphics, too much is not enough,” notes that “It is impossible ...

Add-in board-market down in Q2, AMD gains market share

Our new Q2’13 AIB report shows that Quarter-to-quarter AIBs down 5.4%, year-to-year 5.2%-less than PCs overall. On a year-to-year basis we found that total AIB shipments during Q2’13 dropped 5.2%, less than the overall desktop ...

Systems thinking and the individual

Companies and users are not on the same page Recently, I wrote an article in CGW about Adobe’s march to subscription and a long time Adobe customer sent a simple terse comment: ain’t ever going ...

Q2’13 issue of Market Watch is now available

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Add-in board-market down in Q2, AMD gains market share

Quarter-to-quarter AIBs down 5.4%, year-to-year 5.2%-less than PCs overall

AMD winner in Q2, Intel up, Nvidia down

AMD overall unit shipments increased 10.9%, quarter-to-quarter, Intel increased 6.2%, and Nvidia decreased by 8%.The overall PC market declined 2.5% quarter-to-quarter while the graphics market increased 4.6%. Overall this net 7.1% increase reflects an interest ...