AMD’s amazing A to Z APU accomplishments
The last five years have been an incredible roller coaster ride for AMD, the largest rival to Intel in the personal computer CPU marketplace. Jon Peddie takes a close look at both the company and ...
IBM to Power the New Wii U
IBM announced that it will provide the microprocessors that will serve as the heart of the new Wii U. IBM plans to produce millions of chips for Nintendo featuring IBM Silicon on Insulator technology at ...
New C++ AMP will feature GPU compute
At the AMD Fusion Developer Summit in Seattle Microsoft’s Herb Sutter, Principal Architect, Native Languages and resident C++ guru gave an important keynote. Mr. Sutter’s talk was centered around heterogeneous computing and the changes coming ...
Shapeways seeks to lead personal manufacturing revolution
With recent VC funding and plenty of media buzz, the spin-out from Royal Philips Electronics continues its quest to become the leading marketplace for using 3D printing for personal product manufacturing. Read more about the ...
AMDs Fusion featured in new HP laptops
HP today expanded its consumer and business notebook portfolios with 11 new models utilizing AMD’s A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). The Pavilion dv-series and g-series will feature the new A-series APUs with a focus on ...
Ambarella sets stage for IPO
Santa Clara based Image processing chip vendor Ambarella Inc.has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of shares. The number of shares to be offered ...
Check out Live Video Coverage of E3
If you cannot make it to Los Angeles you can check out all the action live, provided by GamerLive.TV. Nvidia has announced this week that its 3D Vision technology will allow video coverage of the ...
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 ...
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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 ...