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Surprising Q1 Results, Graphics Shipments Up 10.3% While PC Shipments Down 5%

TIBURON, CA-May 2 2011-Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced  estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q1’11. We found that shipments during the first ...

Taiwan warns to brace for shortages

The effects of the disaster in Japan are starting to take a toll on the supply chain. Taiwan manufactures warn of “acute shortages” in memory chips, gyroscopes, capacitors, chip-resistors, cover glass and even bismaleimide-triazine resin, ...

What was technologies impact on the Royal Wedding?

Estimates have ranged form two billion to three billion onlookers for the royal wedding, a whopping 29% of the world’s population tuning in to see William and Kate exchange vows. No matter the number it ...

Sony introduces two new tablets powered by Tegra

Sony announced two new Honeycomb tablets, the S1 and S2 powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2. The S1 is a 9.4-inch widescreen tablet, the S2 will be a dual-screen tablet which has two 5.5-inch screens. They ...

Nintendo confirms successor to the Wii on the way

Six years after the release of the monstrously successful Wii, Nintendo announces a new console; codenamed “Project Cafe”. The new system is set for release in 2012. Nintendo plans to have a “playable model” of ...

JPR is back from COFES 2011 and out with a new issue of TechWatch

In this weeks issue a look back at COFES 2011, Adobe’s new road map and a breakdown of Sony’s PS3. Jon opines on the HPU and how GPU-compute will fuel astounding growth in computer engineering ...

New Alienware M11x, M14x and M18x laptops announced

Dell has unveiled three Sandy Bridge-powered Alienware gaming notebooks: the M11x, M14x and M18x. The largest laptop the M18x will be offered with an overclocked 4GHz Core i7 Extreme, a choice between a pair of ...

HP Unveils Mobile Workstation Portfolio

HP today announced a new lineup of mobile workstations, the Most powerful being the HP EliteBook 8760w which offers a 17.3-inch diagonal, high-definition screen, a choice of high-performing AMD FirePro or NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics ...

AMD is not the only one set to pair up with Android

On the heels of the Oak Trail announcement it appears that Intel will team with Android is a slew of new netbooks that will include offerings from Acer, Lenovo and Asus. This a day after ...

Autodesk Brings AutoCAD WS Mobile App to Android

Autodesk has released an Android version of AutoCAD WS, the mobile app that views and edits DWG files. Like the original version for the Apple iOS environment, the free web and mobile application uses cloud ...

Intel announces a new version of its Atom chipset platform

Specifically designed to power tablet devices Oak Trail will start shipping in devices next month with design wins from customers including Evolve III, Fujitsu Limited, Lenovo, Motion Computing, Razer, and Viliv. The Oak Trail chipset ...

Exhibits open today at the 2011 NAB show

In Las Vegas today at the 2011 NAB show Doldy Laboratories launched new Loudness Tools and Imaging Technology. Dolby will be showcasing its range of loudness products, including Dolby Media Meter 2 and Dolby Media ...