New HP TouchSmart PCs announced
From phones, to tablets to the PC to commercial Kiosks Touch technology first developed in the 80’s finally seems to be coming of age. Today HP announced its new line of TouchSmart PCs including the ...
Nokia set to dump Meego?
Nokia is one of the only major phone manufacturers that has not succumbed to the Android wave. However, with word coming out that Android has surpassed Symbian as the most popular mobile phone OS murmurs ...
100 Billion ARM processors to ship by 2020?
Sounds like a huge number but ARM thinks they can get there. With a stranglehold on the Mobile space and with new markets opening up they just might be able to; see Mr. Cramer’s interview ...
JPR Reports Disappointing 4th Quarter: PC Graphics Shipments Down 7.8%
Overall shipments of graphics devices for the year, 2010 came in below expectations with an unimpressive 4.3% total year to year growth—a disappointing result given the enthusiastic start of the year. Q4 of 2010 did ...
4th Quarter PC Graphics Shipments Announced
http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/jon-peddie-research-reports-disappointing-4th-quarter/
Jon Peddie Research reports disappointing 4th quarter
Holding our breath for 2011
Intel halts production of Sandy Bridge
One marginal transistor in chipset impacting SATA ports 2-6 forces Intel to halt production of Sandy Bridge. Production set to resume in April or sooner. Intel News Room
Jon Peddie Research Reports Disappointing 4th Quarter: PC Graphics Shipments Down 7.8%
Overall shipments of graphics devices for the year, 2010 came in below expectations with an unimpressive 4.3% total year to year growth—a disappointing result given the enthusiastic start of the year. Q4 of 2010 did ...
What is a PC?
The debate continues among suppliers, analysts, pundits, and web forum participants as to whether tablets (specifically the Apple iPad) should be counted as a PC or not. From our perspective the issue is defined (if it can be) by the processor. Fragmentation is finally affecting the PC market. Options such as tablets, E-books, consoles, and even talented phones are doing jobs PCs could do. Also, consoles and Kindles. These other devices are not replacing PCs, but they're shifting interest and mind share. They're enabling people to leave devices at home for vacation and short trips. No more lugging a computer to a tradeshow. And a side-effect is that these alternative devices are reducing the urgency to upgrade machines. The money might be spent on new devices instead. But for a market analysis we need a tighter definition – what is, and what isn’t a PC?
Numbers for Q4’10 PC Graphic Shipments are In
2010 came in below expectations with an unimpressive 4.3% year to year growth. Intel’s overall Q4 market share gained over 1% to 52.5%, AMD improved to 24.2% and Nvidia had a slight drop to 22.5%. ...
HP Webinar Today at 9AM Pacific on Mobile Workstations
Join Jon Peddie and other industry stalwarts on a discussion of “Why Mobile Workstations”. Find out how engineers, designers, and others are using Mobile Workstations in their work. Sign up at: Why Mobile Workstations
Welcome to App World
This blog is being written with the full assumption that it’s going to have to be rewritten in the next day or so, but sitting right here, right now, it sure does look like MacWorld ...