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Jon Peddie to speak at OpenGL BoF at SIGGRAPH 2010

Posted by Webmaster on July 22nd 2010 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie will be hosting his own Luncheon during SIGGRAPH 2010. As well, Jon will be opening the OpenGL BoF at SIGGRAPH 2010. Complete information on the luncheon is available on the Jon Peddie Research website, and a complete schedule for the OpenGL BoF is available on the Khronos Group website.

The ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers event

Posted by Webmaster on July 16th 2010 | Permalink
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The ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers event, sponsored by Pixar, will be on July 27 at 6:30 PM at the SIGGRAPH Headquarters hotel, JW Marriott, in LA. Academy Award winner Paul Debevec is the guest speaker.

IBM adds nvidia GPUs to high-performance servers

Posted by Webmaster on May 21st 2010 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie, president of graphics market research firm Jon Peddie Research, called the IBM-Nvidia deal “great news. This is verification and validation of the Tesla product as being a viable server supercomputer accelerator. Having a name like IBM really puts a stamp of approval on it, and you’ll see other companies following that,” he told InternetNews.com. “I expect to see Dell, HP and Sun all doing that. Not necessarily with Tesla, but adding GPU computing.” It’s also good for Nvidia’s rival, ATI, because it, too, has a strong play. The difference is that ATI supports OpenCL while Nvidia supports OpenCL plus…

Nvidia To Unveil Graphics Chip Friday As AMD Battle Heats Up

Posted by Webmaster on March 25th 2010 | Permalink
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Nvidia Corp. is expected to launch Friday the first chip using its next-generation graphics technology, bringing a big leap in performance from its current products and heating up a rivalry with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Despite AMD's early lead, delays at chip manufacturers offered Nvidia a reprieve from a drop in market share. In the fourth quarter, Nvidia increased its position in the desktop GPU market, raising its market share to 64.8% from 62.1% a year ago, according to Jon Peddie Research.

Enthusiast gaming hardware is $9.5 billion market

Posted by Webmaster on March 25th 2010 | Permalink
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Our good friend Jon Peddie issued a paper that claims 46 percent of dollars spent in 2009 on gaming PC hardware were directed to toward the Enthusiast class. JPR reports expenditures on enthusiast-class gaming hardware were $9.5 billion last year, and expects this will grow to almost $12.5 billion in 2013. This includes all kinds of top-of-the line stuff, including boutique PCs, high-end processors and graphics cards, solid state disks, gaming mice/keyboards, watercooling, speakers, displays, etc.

Jon Peddie to to present at COFES 2010 on Cloud computing

Posted by Webmaster on March 16th 2010 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) thinks our current way of keeping up with technology — cyclical hardware updates to make sure we can run the latest software releases — is doomed. He predicts, in the future, we would draw as much — or as little — computing power as we need from the cloud. Jon Peddie is scheduled to give a presentation about the topic at The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software 2010 (COFES, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 15-18). He invites you to bring your own theories in favor — or against — cloud computing.

Game Developers’ Needs Must Come First say 3D Industry Leaders

Posted by Webmaster on March 16th 2010 | Permalink
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Even with Avatar’s continued success and 3D Blu-Ray just around the corner, many see gaming as the core driver that will bring 3D to the home. Founded in September of 2009, The S-3D Gaming Alliance (S3DGA) represents the interests of game developers, display manufacturers, and technology enablers in this field.

Jon Peddie to participate in 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference

Posted by Webmaster on March 16th 2010 | Permalink
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"Jon Peddie Research is excited to participate in the 6Sight conference this year,” says Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. “It’s a focused event that gives attendees and participants a chance to look forward at the future of imaging with an emphasis on practical application. It’s a setting where interesting ideas are explored and inspired.”

Industrial design, Italian Style: Review of Solidthinking

Posted by Webmaster on March 8th 2010 | Permalink
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SolidThinking, Inc. did not make an appearance at MacWorld this year, but the company was introducing SolidThinking Version 8.0 to the international design community at about the same time. Read the in-depth review of SolidThinking by Kathleen Maher online at Computer Graphics World.

More Muscle given to Nvidia Ion Netbooks

Posted by Webmaster on March 4th 2010 | Permalink
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Nvidia recently announced a second generation of Ion, its graphics platform for Intel Atom processor-equipped netbooks and nettops. Weigh in with Jon Peddie and his thoughts on "a slight update to the 9400M, but it's more exposed so it can do more stuff."