Larry’s Bee – Part Two
Last week I posed a postulate that Intel could justify the investment in Larrabee (Larry’s Bee) on the basis of obtaining some level of parity with the incumbents, mainly ATI and Nvidia. And in my ...
Why not Larrabee?
Anyone not stuck in outer space or maximum security knows Intel is going to introduce a new chip code named Larrabee. At Siggraph they are going to reveal, after almost two years of teases and ...
First Person Second
Here’s an interesting chart Jon found which tracks the use of the term “Doom clone” versus “First Person Shooter” (FPS) It’s fascinating how the term FPS stuck, I mean Mist is an FPE (first person ...
Overall GPU Market dropped 0.5% from Q1’2008
Smallest drop in Q2 shipments in eight years - where's the market slowdown?
Paranoid protectionists Prima Donnas of the press plead for protection
We recently sent out about a zillion invites to the press to invite them to our luncheon in LA during Siggraph. Aside from finding out who’s not working (out of the office till…) and who’s ...
iPhone breaks Moore’s law
My new phone cost more than my PC or TV I’m getting ready to buy the iPhone. I mean buy it, not lease it from AT&T. I’ve been saving my allowance, and taking bottles and ...
Missed the Boat
The loudest complainers about PC Gaming seem to have one thing in common – a failed strategy in this market.
Attempted rapprochement
Rumor has it there was an attempt at rapprochement. Long annoyed with The Inquirer’s loose cannon Charlie Demerjian, Nvidia has been shunning him and took him off the invitee list of most events. Water to ...
This is a rant about spin – Intel extends command in fast-computers tally
The annual supercomputer conference was just held in Dresden Germany. At it they show off the top 500 supercomputers. Usually there are two or three new ones at the top and the rest shift downward ...
If you’ve got a secret, keep it. Keep your product as well
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37534/128/
How many FLOPS?
FLoating point Operations Per Second – FLOPS, one of the more obscure acronyms in our lives, and one of the oldest ones. It’s since been modified with a prefix of M (mega), G (giga) and ...
Moore’s law violated by inflation – your new laptop will cost more
Another contributor to sluggish PC sales for this year Even though one of the applied tenants of Moore’s law is that prices will drop over time (Moore never said that, it’s just a statement that ...