News

Overall GPU market was up an astounding 20% – desktop displaced mobile

TIBURON, CA—October 29, 2007—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s leading research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the third calendar quarter of 2007. Traditionally, ...

Oh god, please don’t let us screw it up

That’s the prayer of the Internet dependent as we all enjoy another growth period. And then comes the news that Microsoft has outbid all comers for the “privilege” of investing $240 million bucks in Facebook, ...

Web 2.0 or deja vu all over again?

I was at dinner with some very interesting and urbane executive types in Boston recently. The subject of what’s next/what’s the latest trend/where’s the money came up as it inevitably does. We were talking about ...

The future of CAD

The computer industry may seem to change at the speed of light but that’s not true of the CAD industry. After back to back meetings with Autodesk and Dassault I am struck once again by ...

China’s engineers are more likely to join a start-up than Americans

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/25/BUBUSD6DM.DTL&type=tech

Dell rebounding in the workstation market, but HP remains tight on its heels

TIBURON, Calif—September 10, 2007—If you think the workstation is some last-century relic whose fortunes in the market have long since faded, think again. As Jon Peddie Research again finds with its Q2’07 tabulations, the workstation ...

HP’s Image is Changing

Being cool and hip in the computer industry is tough. Each company has their own following who, in turn consider their own brand to have these qualities. However, appealing to the high margin “influencers” is ...

Microsoft looks to “Halo 3” to hold Xbox console lead

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ah.zkXSTEhuo&refer=news

Nvidia is closing the gap for the #1 position in graphics, AMD loses ground and Intel is flat

Overall market was up 3%, bucking seasonal trend.

Nvidia delivers first modern motherboard GPU to Intel-based desktops

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9942

Graphics add-in board market down in Q1’07, in a big way

Units not so bad, but revenue took a big hit

AMD’s presence in workstations plummets in Q1’07, reports Jon Peddie Research

TIBURON, Calif—June 13, 2007—Times change, and they can change fast. As 2006 began, Intel’s Xeon was in a tailspin, while AMD’s Opteron could do no wrong. In the robust market for workstations, the roles have ...