This week in TechWatch
- WORKSTATIONS, CAD, AND THE CLOUD:
Autodesk’s Project Butterfly
Mental Images teams with Penguin
- REPORT FROM HOT CHIPS 22:
Intel’s Westmere EX
IBM’s z196
- GRAPHICALLY SPEAKING:
146 million pixels at Siggraph
AMD expands Eyfinity
- GOING MOBILE:
Waiting for Tegra
- DCC NEWS:
Avid Media Composer gains ground
- NEWS WATCH:
eedoo Technology takes on Xbox 360
Rendering and JPR’s luncheon
- THE FINANCIAL PAGE:
Dell barely beats expectations
HP talks tablets
Marvell meets earnings estimate
- TECH INSIDER:
Techwatch September 2nd 2010
Twice this past week I was confronted with soothsayers, magicians, and fortune tellers—you know—industry analysts and company guidance managers. One of the problems with having grown up in this industry (but, I’d like to point out, not being grown up thank you) is that you’ve heard and seen it before—a state that feels something like Run Lola Run, Groundhog Day, and déjà-vu. A highly involved, if not evolved, friend called the other day to bemoan the Rodney Dangerfield treatment S3D seems to be getting from the press, and a few commissioned analysts. Seems those hired guns had discovered the consumers don’t really want and may not like S3D. Really? Hmmm, now who would commission such a study—maybe someone who has a warehouse full of old TVs and needs to unload them before the consumer starts snapping up the new 240Hz big screen S3D ready sets. Nah, I’m sure it was a totally objective and well documented survey based on solid methodology. Something like this: Hey Mr. Joe 6-pack (or Joe the plumber—no matter) do you think it’s likely you’ll be buying a $4,000 big screen TV that requires you to wear glasses and may make you nauseous? No? See, …