Jon Peddie Research reports add-in board market worth $4.4 billion in Q4, 2010-$17 billion for 2010
Over 18 million boards sold in the quarter
JPR reports add-in board market worth $4.4 billion in Q4, 2010 – $17 billion for 2010
In our new Graphic Add-In Board report JPR reports overall shipments of graphics AIBs for the year, 2010 came in lower than the recession year 2009 at 72.8 million units compared to 75.3 million for ...
Nintendo and Apple both set to take the stage
We are hoping for a few surprise announcements this morning, Nintendo’s CEO, Satoru Iwata Keynotes the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center while across the street at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ...
Nvidia releases latest version of CUDA
The NVIDIA CUDA 4.0 Toolkit is designed to focus on parallel programming, and enable developers to port their applications to GPUs and x86 CPUs. The three new main features of the new CUDA includes. GPUDirect ...
Adobe launches beta Molehill 3D API and Flash Player 11
Adobe’s Molehill API uses the GPU allowing developers to achieve higher performance in 3D graphics. Now developers can use shaders for dynamic lighting, particle systems, complex materials, post-effects and skeletal animation with little to no ...
JPR Announces 2011 International PC Gaming Hardware Estimates
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Jon Peddie Research Announces 2011 International PC Gaming Hardware Estimates
Jon Peddie Research estimates 2011 expenditures on PC gaming hardware are set to jump to over $22 billion globally, with a 27% gain in 2011 across the three segmentations of the market; Mainstream, Performance, and Enthusiast.
Radeon graphics for the new MacBook Pro
As the Tech world waits for the impending iPad announcement on March 2nd – AMD scores a significant design win. The Radeon HD 6000M will team with Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 processors in the ...
The International Solid-State Circuits Conference is taking place this week
The 58th ISSCC is being held in San Francisco this week, the ISSCC is the major forum for presenting advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. The conference runs through February 24th and is being held ...
Nvidia soars after earnings report
Many thought 2011 would be the year that all the time and money that Nvidia invested in R&D would finally pay off, and so far who could argue? A move from $8.88 per share in ...
“I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.”
The whole of IBM must be beaming this morning as Watson beat out former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson racked up a two day total of $77,147 to Ken’s $24,000. Though Watson ...
Autodesk makes play for leading UI firm
Autodesk has its eye on Scaleform offering $36 million in cash for company. Scaleform is an industry leader in flash-based UI tools and middleware for video games. Scaleform GFx has helped in the development of ...