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Jon Peddie to speak at the GPU Technology Conference today

May 16th 2012

Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference is entering it's 2nd day today at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. You can follow the happenings at GTC HERE where you will be able to view a re-cap of Jen-Hsun's keynote along with press releases and updates from the show.

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EDITORIAL : How big is your monitor?  And how many do you have?

Techwatch May 11th 2012

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 comments (after all, isn’t that exactly what a GPU is supposed to do—eliminate CPU limitations?), it also raises the question about what the potential buyers of this $999 AIB have on their desks. I suppose it is reasonable to …

AMD, ARM, and all that jazz — reading between the lines will make you cross-eyed

There have been persistent rumors, opinions, and speculation since AMD’s Fusion Developer’s Summit (AFDS) that because ARM was one of the keynote speakers a grand collusion was in the works—the ARMing of AMD.The concept gets fuel from the abrupt discharge of Dirk Meyer, the company’s former president for allegedly …Click here to read this blog entry

Tablets — the canary in the PC tunnel?

The second quarter by all accounts so far has not been a blockbuster, in fact in some places it’s been a career buster. The DJIA wobbled, not many new jobs were created, and the politics in the US got even more rancorous if such a thing is possible. In …Click here to read this blog entry

WebGL Security - Kill it before it grows?

When Khronos launched the WebGL specifications with strong backing from Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera we thought at least peace had come to the 3D web valley. We should have known better; seems that there are competing vested interests in proprietary software and plug-ins that will put a few …Click here to read this blog entry

Ambarella sets stage for IPO

Santa Clara based Image processing chip vendor Ambarella Inc.has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of shares. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined, Ambarella. You …Click here to read this news article

The real 3D - Looking at all sides of 3D reveals a future far beyond pixels

3D is an illusion. Right, got that. Ever since I’ve been working around the computer industry I’ve had people tell me 3D is an illusion. Like, I didn’t know that. The computer screen is a 2D surface, and when we look at objects and turn them, or run into …Click here to read this blog entry