There’s a lot of assumptions running around in this PC industry, based on hearsay and tidbits of data. We just finished running some tests on Nvidia’s new dual-GPU AIB, the GTX 690 (see p. 11). Nvidia wasn’t very happy with our first results, and told us we were being CPU-bound by doing the tests at HD. Aside from the counter-intuitive … Read more
TIBURON, CA-March 12, 2012 -The workstation market proceeded ahead in the fourth quarter of 2011, completing a long climb back from the 2009 depths of the global economic recession that had slashed its shipments by over 40 percent. But that fourth quarter advance was more a case of “steady as she goes” than “full speed ahead”, reports Jon Peddie Research … Read more
AMD led the quarter with 7.8% quarter-to-quarter growth TIBURON, CA-22 February, 2012—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 Q4’11. We found that shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, the new seasonality that has … Read more
Intel led the quarter with 36.5% growth, Nvidia had 30% growth TIBURON, CA-November 1 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 Q3’11. Shipments during the third quarter of 2011 did (finally) behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was higher … Read more
Initially leveraging a 28nm process from TSMC, Qualcomm has announced its Snapdragon S4 class of processors, of which the first member is the MSM8960 with an Adreno 225 GPU. The new 1.5 GHz processor (S4 will scale up to 2.5GHz) has Qualcomm’s micro-architectural design with four independent, proprietary ARM Cortex A15-class CPU cores, plus a 32-core GPU, plus 128 bit … Read more
TIBURON, CA-August 4, 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 Q2’11. Shipments during the second quarter of 2011 did not behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was higher on a year-to-year comparison for the quarter. 2011 is shaping up … Read more
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 quarter of 2011 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was nominal on a year-to-year comparison for the quarter. The situation changed … Read more
Just got back from COFES in sunny warm Scottsdale Arizona. Ensconced in the conference at a resort, and venturing out only at night to nearby restaurants, we were immune to the tremendous political stress this old west state is suffering through. Battling on multiple fronts with immigration pressure and unconstitutional remedies, minimal gun laws, tea parties, budget cuts, birther bills, … Read more
Last week I gave a presentation at the Congress Of Future Engineering Software (COFES) in Tel Aviv on the Opportunities For Innovation In Design And Sustainability. I was the token hardware person at a conference for softies, and I asked the question of those people, “can hardware help in design and sustainability – or is it just something we take … Read more
This editorial is dedicated to one of my heroes—Lewis Black. If you don’t who he is or what he does, start here. And then go to whatever city you have to in order to see him in person, search the TV for old skits, search the web. Then read this. You can sum up Black’s demeanor and style with three … Read more
TIBURON, Calif–August 31, 2010–The workstation market posted another round of solid numbers in the second quarter of 2010, but that growth is expected to slow in Q3. So reports Jon Peddie Research (JPR) after wrapping up its second quarter analysis as part of its JPR Workstation Report series. The technology and market research firm reports that the industry shipped 795,000 … Read more
There’s no lack of information about the equipment people use to play games. The trick is understanding the data and putting it to good use. Although far more PCs are used for gaming than consoles, game developers prefer to develop for consoles. Clearly, it’s not just a numbers game.
