AMD names Rory P. Read CEO
Lost in the Earth-shattering report of Steve Jobs’ departure was the news that AMD has named a new CEO. Rory Read most recently President and COO of Lenovo will take over the reigns at AMD. ...
Graphics Add-in Board Shipments Decline 15.2% from Last Quarter
Seasonality and worldwide recession to blame
HP – breaking up the place
HP’s Personal System group, PSG, is a $41 billion dollar company. It is, IMHO, a jewel, but I may be a bit biased because I have a lot of old friends there. And, like any ...
HP — breaking up the place
HP’s Personal System group, PSG, is a $41 billion dollar company. It is, IMHO, a jewel, but I may be a bit biased because I have a lot of old friends there. And, like any ...
AMD releases updates of APUs
Updated C & E-Series APUs feature DDR3 1333 support for enhanced memory bandwidth and faster performance and video playback, HDMI 1.4a connections allow for viewing 3D pictures and home video on 3D-enabled TVs and displays. ...
HP sees “overwhelming” demand for cut-price TouchPad
A day after announcing plans to ditch its tablet and smart-phone efforts, HP dropped the price of its webOS-powered TouchPad tablet device at the weekend to just US$99.99 and in turn claimed to have witnessed ...
Autodesk posts a 19% increase in Q2 earnings
Net earnings for the May-through-July period were $71.2 million, or 30 cents per share, up from $59.9 million, or 25 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2010. Revenue was $546.3 million, up 16 ...
Exploring the brave new world of virtual moviemaking
JPR hosted a lively discussion on Virtual Moviemaking at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver that included industry stalwarts Rob Powers of Newtek, Brian Pohl of Autodesk, Steve Cooper of Smith Micro, Darin Grant of DreamWorks and Ping ...
From Digital to Real and Back Again
It’s getting real, folks. Increasingly, the real world is becoming interrelated with the digital world, and this is driving new frontiers in software. Scanned data is being fed into computer-aided design (CAD) programs to serve ...
Jon Peddie slides from Siggraph now online
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Autodesk releases 123D Sculpt for iPad
Autodesk has released 123D Sculpt, a 3D sculpting and painting app for iPad. The app is one more product Autodesk’s new consumer products division is releasing to appeal to the rapidly growing group of consumers ...
NEW Tech Watch now available
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