JPR releases the 2012 CAD Report
The CAD Market was worth approximately $5 billion in 2009. It reached $6.4 in 2010 and $7 billion in 2011. The industry is rebounding from the recession but there have been hiccups. There is going ...
The release of the Kindle Fire sets up price drop for tablet market
Several tablet PC players including RIM, HTC, Lenovo, and ViewSonic, have dropped their 7-inch tablet PC prices to compete against Amazon’s Kindle Fire, priced at US$199. RIM has recently cooperated with Best Buy to offer ...
3D Systems to Acquire Z Corp and Vidar
3D Systems Corporation took a big leap today by acquiring Z Corporation and Vidar Systems for $137 million in cash. In one move 3D Systems doubles its reseller channel and fills gaps in its three-tier ...
ACER technology featured in new innovative web video
ACER was kind enough to give us a look at their new H7531D DLP projector. A local band Midi-Matilda was able to take the projector and make a catchy original video that is quickly becoming ...
HP Unveils Its First Ultrabook
HP today introduced Folio, its first business Ultrabook, which features a thin and light design. The new laptop in the Ultrabook class measures less than 18mm with a 13.3-inch display and weighs in at 3.3 ...
Nvidia unveils Maximus
Today Nvidia releases Maximus technology, a new way to simultaneously harness the computation power in both an Nvidia Quadro graphics processing unit (GPU) and an Nvidia Tesla general-purpose GPU. Nvidia claims—and major vendors agree—that Maximus ...
Tudor Brown, ARM co-founder, to step down
ARM president Tudor Brown announced on Thursday that he will be stepping down in May. ARM has shipped more than 15 billion chips “based on ARM-processor technology” since the company was founded in 1990. “I ...
Adobe Restructures to Align Business around Growth Opportunities
Adobe announced today that it is restructuring to better align resources around Digital Media and Digital Marketing. This will result in the elimination of approximately 750 full-time positions primarily in North America and Europe. Adobe ...
Autodesk cherry-picks GRIP Entertainment for game AI technology
Autodesk today acquired specific technology-related assets and hired some employees from GRIP Entertainment, a privately-held artificial intelligence (AI) game middleware company. The acquisition continues the Autodesk strategy to create a complete pipeline for the creation ...
Calxeda ARM-based “EnergyCore” to Power HP’s Extreme Low-Energy Server
The EnergyCore ARM-based SoC launched today will power a new breed of servers. Its ARM-based “EnergyCore” Server-on-a-Chip, consumes as little as 1.5 watts. HP is the first company to incorporate Calxeda’s EnergyCore SoCs into servers ...
Q3 graphics shipments up 16.7% over last quarter18.4% over last year
Intel led the quarter with 36.5% growth, Nvidia had 30% growth TIBURON, CA-November 1 2011—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ ...
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 ...