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Q2 Surprise: Graphics Shipments up 6.3%; PC Shipments up 2.4% According to Latest Report

TIBURON, CA-August 4, 2011—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q2’11. Shipments during the second quarter of 2011 ...

AMD, ARM, and all that jazz — reading between the lines will make you cross-eyed

There have been persistent rumors, opinions, and speculation since AMD’s Fusion Developer’s Summit (AFDS) that because ARM was one of the keynote speakers a grand collusion was in the works—the ARMing of AMD.The concept gets ...

Adobe takes to the streets

Adobe has created a pop up gallery at 550 Sutter St. in downtown San Francisco. The storefront is designed to be an inviting space for people to come in and play with Adobe’s products and ...

Qualcomm Acquires Gesture Recognition Assets

Qualcomm Incorporated announced that it has acquired assets from a leader in the gesture recognition field, GestureTek. The acquisition gives Qualcomm ownership of certain intellectual property assets related to gesture recognition, as well as key ...

Comcast teams with Elemental on video

Comcast has tapped Elemental to create the video available to its subscribers on XfinityTV.com and to power its Xfinity TV app for Apple devices. Comcast will use Elemental technology for video processing for Comcast’s Xfinity ...

JPR Siggraph Luncheon

http://jonpeddie.com/events/details/jon_peddie_research_press_luncheon_siggraph_2011/

Autodesk deal with Bayer Technology pushes Intergraph aside

Bayer will use a wide variety of Autodesk products in the design, construction, and operation of chemical and pharmaceutical plants worldwide. Bayer Technology Services has signed an enterprise agreement with Autodesk for the global use ...

RSVP for JPR’s SIGGRAPH 2011 Press Luncheon

Sponsored by AMD, Autodesk, GeoMagic, HP and Newtek this year JPR’s Press Luncheon and Panel discussion on Virtual Movie-making will be held on August 10th at noon at the Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver. There will ...

Tablets — the canary in the PC tunnel?

The second quarter by all accounts so far has not been a blockbuster, in fact in some places it’s been a career buster. The DJIA wobbled, not many new jobs were created, and the politics ...

Take the new GraphicSpeak survey; five random participants will receive a free 3D 3Dconnexion mouse

Between now and July 29, take our survey HERE and you could win a free 3Dconnexion mouse. Complete all survey questions (it is a short survey); be sure to include your name. Good Luck!

HTC to acquire S3 Graphics

HTC is set to purchase S3 Graphics from Via for $300M. With the acquisition HTC will obtain S3 Graphics’ portfolio of patents and pending applications however “HTC will provide a perpetual license of the S3 ...

The HP TouchPad hit the market over the holiday weekend

The HP TouchPad first announced in February is finally available. The new TouchPad entering the increasingly competitive table market features a revamped webOS and a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor that drives the 9.7-inch ...