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Playing at War

I got Activision’s “Call of Duty – Black Ops” (CODBO) and EA’s “Medal of Honor” (MOH) a couple of weeks ago, but due to travel schedules didn’t get a chance to try them until late ...

AMD’s CPUs disappear from the workstation market

Losing its final major workstation OEM customer, AMD seems to have essentially withdrawn from the workstation market for CPUs ... and it doesn't seem to care.

It's still selling GPUs but not CPUs. The strategy might have me scratching my head, but when it comes to marketing its wares to the workstation market, that's precisely where AMD's head is at. Yes, AMD maintains a presence as a supplier to the workstation industry, plying its professional-brand FirePro GPUs, but as far as we can tell the company has thrown in the towel when it comes to selling its CPUs into the same space.

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Market Expansion? ISV’s hold the reins

The major volume and/or super expensive software suppliers have had a free lunch for the past fifteen or more years. Basically making bug fixes and a few feature improvements they got performance boasts from CPU clock and pipeline improvements, plus I/O improvements, and dropping DRAM and disc drive costs with increased capacity – the ISVs have been the biggest benefactors of Moore’s law.

x86 isn’t do-or-die for Nvidia

...but pass on x86, and the company better execute flawlessly on its GPU strategies and technologies

Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Fusion are right around the corner, and the die-integrated combinations of x86 CPU and GPU have heightened the interest about how one very specific company will navigate this new landscape of SoCs. Nvidia, the dominant provider of discrete GPUs over the past decade, cannot make the same leap in silicon integration that its two key rivals will imminently launch. The simple reason: it has no x86 IP in its technology arsenal.

3rd Quarter PC Graphics Shipments Announced

http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/jon-peddie-research-announces-3rd-quarter-pc-graphics-shipments/

Nvidia, CUDA, and x86

Nvidia has announced its CUDA on x86 technology. Nvidia is enabling developers to move to CUDA gradually. They can develop, debug, and run code on x86 and get started on CUDA even if most of their legacy code is still based on the CPU. By letting developers work with both CPUs and GPUs, Nvidia might also be giving them a chance to see for themselves the advantages of GPUs compared to CPUs.

New report on the EPG & HPU

http://jonpeddie.com/publications/opportunities-threats-and-changes-created-by-the-epg-hpu/

Lucid Introduces UNITY Graphics Board Architecture

http://lucidlogix.com/download/PR_Lucidogix_AIB_082610.pdf

NVIDIA Is Defining the Future of Broadcast and Film Video Production

http://www.daniweb.com/news/story310610.html