Tegra makes an appearance at the North Ameican International Auto Show this week
The Tesla Model S is but just one of the cars whose interior displays are powered by a HPU. The entire line of BMWs will also feature Nvidia’s Tegra
The tablet bubble – a billion dollar lemmings race
Or … a bunch of teenagers drinking and driving The impact and influence of Apple on the rest of the PC and mobile phone industry is astonishing. Many of the CES tablets this year represent ...
ARM netbooks are coming
ARM netbooks are coming and it’s not about price; it’s about power management, always on; think cloud client apps, and freedom. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer unveiled Windows on SoCs at his keynote. Nvidia’s Bill Dally threw ...
Elemental Announces Video Conversion Support for 2nd Generation Intel Core Processor Family
Elemental Technologies announced the company is solidifying its leadership in GPU-accelerated video processing, extending its architecture to support high-speed video conversion on the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family. “Accelerated GPU-based encoding solutions that work ...
2011 Visions and Predictions – free download available
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Intel, tick tocking away
Intel had a solid year of shipping 32nm processors from their Westmere family and followed the company’s “tick-tock” strategy to spread the engineering risk out among generations. Intel has new competition on the low-end from ...
AMD Poised For Growth
It’s been just over a year since Intel and AMD reached their landmark settlement, and two years since the company entered into a joint agreement with ATIC on the fab. Those were huge movements involving ...
Tough to beat free
Microsoft started it a long long time ago, and now Microsoft may now be the biggest victim of it – giving stuff away. When Microsoft was striving for market share with its operating system, and ...
Apple gains market share – really?
I don’t think so. According to DisplaySearch (a division of NPD that counts screens shipments), Apple captured a 12.4% share of global mobile PC shipments in Q3’10, benefiting from the iPad effect. In other words, ...
JPR reports continued strength in the workstation market, but sees cautionary signs as well
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Reports continued strength in the workstation market, but sees cautionary signs
TIBURON, Calif–December 7, 2010–The workstation market continued its steady determined march back to the volume levels it saw prior to the economic collapse that kicked off in the fourth quarter of 2008. Jon Peddie Research ...
Calculating the Total Cost of Ownership
The other day Jon was (halfway) joking that modern enthusiast GPU’s should be measured in horsepower, as they now consume about 1/3rd HP on the high end. This got me to thinking of a computer ...