Jon Peddie Market News

If you’ve got a secret, keep it. Keep your product as well

Posted by Jon Peddie on June 16th 2008 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie lends his thoughts on cell phone companies stay quiet about the chips, memory and other components in their cell phones. From the article “If you go to BestAIB Co, and ask them what GPU is on that board, the folks at Best AIB Co will tell you, happily and proudly. Now go to your favorite mobile phone supplier and ask “What chips are in the HeatsYourPocket 105?” Most likely they will tell you that they won’t discuss the components in their phones.”

Jon Peddie shares his vision for the future of graphics on HEXUS.tv at CeBIT 2008

Posted by Webmaster on March 11th 2008 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie is one of the world’s leading experts on the graphics market. Here is a two-part interview in which he shares his vision for the future of graphics with the HEXUS.tv audience. HEXUS.tv covered everything from PlayStation 4 to XBox 720 and Larrabee through to Fusion… and that is just part one. In part two Jon tackles a range of tough issues, from who will win the console war, to the upcoming challenges faced by CPU makers as OEMs look to reduce their BOM costs. Take a look at these great inteviews: Click here for Part One of Two Click…

HP’s Image is Changing

Posted by Webmaster on September 10th 2007 | Permalink
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Being cool and hip in the computer industry is tough. Each company has their own following who, in turn consider their own brand to have these qualities. However, appealing to the high margin “influencers” is a different story.Despite their best efforts, Hewlett-Packard has not really been hip and cool to a key segment of this “influencer” group, nor has Acer/Gateway, or IBM/Lenovo. This is due to a combination of product design and brand image. HPs first attempt to appeal to the industry influencers is the Blackbird 002 and it is a good note to start on. It is quite possibly the…