The overall CG market grows to $150 billion by 2022
Industry expected to see 2% CAGR for next few years
Leap Motion acquired by Ultrahaptics for $30 million
Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion come together to push spatial interaction technology. (Source: Ultrahaptics) Did it seem Leap Motion got awfully quiet? Well, it did, the company had seen its valuation drop and was clearly running out of money because the London-based Ultrahaptics announced plans to buy Leap Motion for $30 million, a comedown from higher ranges the company had … Read more
Thrive: Women in computer graphics
“Thrive” is the theme of 46th Siggraph conference that will be taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA from of 28 July to 1 August 2019. The theme of the conference can be related to the increasing interest of women in the field of computer science, web development, and other technology-related careers. Previous Siggraph conferences … Read more
AMD launches two Athlon CPUs with Vega graphics
For all you people planning to give semiconductors as presents, AMD’s latest APUs arrived just in time for the holiday. AMD says its new Athlon 220GE and 240GE processors with 4 processing threads and Radeon Vega Graphics represent the most advanced entry-level processors AMD has ever created. The new processors enable 720p esports gaming out-of-the-box and with the Zen processor … Read more
The overall CG market grows to $147 billion by 2021
Industry increased to 2% CAGR growth for next few years
Famous Graphics Chips: NEC µPD7220 Graphics Display Controller
This is the first in a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. In buzzword talk, they were disruptive devices, and in addition to changing how things were done, the application of those chips made a lot of companies successful. Ironically, all of them are gone now. … Read more
Intel and AMD talent swap
The door swings both ways
Steamy results make seeing the truth difficult
If one looks at the distribution of AIBs, AMD has about 35% market share based on Q1’18 shipments. Not all those AIBs were used for gaming, but most of them were. Q1’18 market share desktop discrete AIBs However, if one looks at the volunteered data of Steam users, AMD has about 15% market share (and Intel 11%). Steam conducts … Read more
The power of Twitter — a GPU it makes
Seven words set the web on fire
MSPR finally means something, part 2
The following is a collage of stories about AIBs that occurred in Q1’18. Not meant to be an exhaustive listing of every mention of an AIB, or product announcement, it will give you some view of the general activities and areas of interest. MSPR finally means something, part 2 No longer a cheap discount disguise We’ve heard and used … Read more
Jon Peddie Research releases its Q1, 2018 add-in board report
Q1, 2018 goes down as a record-breaking quarter for add-in boards
Jon Peddie Research releases the Q1’2018 Market Watch report on PC GPU shipments
JPR reports that the GPU market increased year-to-year by 3.4%; sequentially GPU shipments decreased -10%