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Q3 graphics shipments up 16.7% over last quarter 18.4% over last year

Intel led the quarter with 36.5% growth, Nvidia had 30% growth. Shipments during the third quarter of 2011 did (finally) behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was higher on a year-to-year ...

ASUS Unveils Eee Pad Transformer Prime

ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih introduced the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet at the AsiaD. The Transformer Prime is the world’s first tablet to feature Project Kal-El, NVIDIA’s next-generation Tegra mobile processor. Kal-El is a the ...

Its the last day of ARM TechCon 2011 in Santa Clara

The final day of the conference will focus on system designers and software developers, those interested in building ARM-based modules, boards, and systems. HERE reporter Katie Morgan chats with Brian Carlson of Texas Instruments on ...

PC Gaming Hardware Market to Reach $27 Billion in 2014

JPR is releasing a new report on the PC Gaming Hardware Market. This year over 250 million game capable home and personal use PCs will ship. The PC market overall has slowed in 2011, but ...

JPR is releasing a new report – Market Dynamics Created by the Embedded Graphics Processors

The EPG/HPU will truly revolutionize the PC and associated industries. The amount of computation capability available in the size, weight, power consumption of systems equipped with EPG/HPUs will upset the market dynamics like never before. ...

Embedded Graphics Processors Killing off IGPs; No Threat to Discrete GPUs

Today, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced its new report on mobile devices, and their processors. In 2011, with the full scale production of scalar X86CPUs ...

Autodesk scoops up 3D point cloud innovator Alice Labs

Autodesk made a stealth acquisition last week, scooping up Netherlands-based Alice Labs. The small team, closely related to ongoing research at technical universities, has previously released Studio Clouds, an innovative 3D laser point cloud editing ...

Khronos Invites Universities to Submit Content for KITE Program

Khronos extends a formal invitation to participate in its KITE initiative. KITE, provides free, Web-based resources and Wiki hosting of Khronos-approved educational materials for teachers and students. Khronas is building a repository of open courseware ...

Our new Mobile Devices Report is now available

The market for these devices has exploded creating a market for over two billion processors. According to the report: * Over three quarters of a billion smartphones will ship in 2016 * Feature and other ...

Mobile Devices and Their Semiconductors: Too Many Products, Too Many Suppliers?

Mobile Devices and Their Semiconductors: Too Many Products, Too Many Suppliers?

Dolby Lounge – Berkeley Interactive Lecture Series

Dolby is holding their Berkeley Lounge Event this week to help promote and share ideas concerning the world of social media. They have a impressive list of guest interactive speakers lined up through Thursday and ...

Qualcomm unveils the S4 HPU

Leveraging a28nm process from TSMC, Qualcomm has started production on their new MSM8970 with Adreno 422 GPU. The new 1.73 GHz processor (will be 2.5GHz by next year) has Qualcomm’s micro-architectural design with four independent ...