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The real 3D – Looking at all sides of 3D reveals a future far beyond pixels

3D is an illusion. Right, got that. Ever since I’ve been working around the computer industry I’ve had people tell me 3D is an illusion. Like, I didn’t know that. The computer screen is a ...

Microsoft gives us a glimpse at Windows 8

Microsoft debuted Windows 8 at the D9 Conference in Southern California and also in Taiwan at Computex. It is a new tile-based interface replacing the classic Windows start menu which is better suited to tablets ...

Intel makes their case for “Ultrabooks” at Computex

New Executive Vice President Sean Maloney gave us a new category to look out for during his keynote, “ultrabooks,”. Ultrabooks are defined as thin, powerful and energy-efficient notebooks that offer tablet-like features, such as responsiveness ...

NEW WorkStation Q1 2011 quarterly report available

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Jon Peddie Research Reports Workstation Market Slows to a More Sustainable Pace in Q1’11

TIBURON, Calif— June 1, 2011 – Fortunately and as expected, the workstation market has slowed down. Completing analysis of the workstation and professional graphics market for the first quarter, Jon Peddie Research senior analyst Alex ...

Nvidia lands orders for three million Tegra 2 chips from Samsung

Nvidia has obtained orders for three million Tegra 2 chips from Samsung Electronics which will launch 10.1-inch Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Tegra 2 Galaxy Tab in early June, according to company CEO and president Huang Jen-hsun. ...

The workstation market slows to a more sustainable pace in Q1’11

Q1’11 is now in the books, with the quarter seeing 860.0 thousand workstations shipped worldwide, representing a 4.8% sequential decline and an 18.6% year-over-year gain. While reduced growth might leave some disappointed, we see it ...

Nvidia and Google team up for 3D YouTube

With increasing 3D content available everywhere YouTube and Nvidia have decided to team up. “YouTube is adding support for HTML5 and WebM standards to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube. That will allow ...

Autodesk net income up 170%

Autodesk reported this week that revenue was up 11% in the first quarter of fiscal 2012, compared to the same quarter a year earlier, and net income was up 170% from a year earlier. Revenue ...

AMD releases two new low power new Accelerated Processing Units

AMD has announced the immediate availability of two new AMD Embedded G-Series with thermal design power (TDP) ratings of 5.5 and 6.4 watts. The new Accelerated Processing Units have very low power consumption and targets ...

Qualcomm picks up major design win with Nokia

After consideration of other major hardware providers Nokia announced today that their future Windows’s based phones will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip-set. Nokia and Qualcomm have worked together on various platforms since they ended their ...

A new issue of JPR’s TechWatch is now available

In this weeks issue of TechWatch we have an in-depth review of Intel’s new 22 NM 3-D Tri-Gate process, a look at the HPU/APU impact on the future of graphics, Kathleen Maher discusses Corel’s new ...