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Industrial design, Italian Style: Review of Solidthinking

Posted by Webmaster on March 8th 2010 | Discuss (0)
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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 | Discuss (0)
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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."

Privacy is dead says Jon Peddie

Posted by Webmaster on March 4th 2010 | Discuss (0)
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TechEye posted a little rant about PR firms pimping out privacy. Jon Peddie, on the breached list, contacted TechEye to offer his view that privacy was dead in this day and age. Talk a walk with Jon and find out why he believe privacy in this day and age is dead.

SIGGRAPH Whitepaper on Real-Time 3D Production Workflow and Rendering

Posted by Webmaster on February 16th 2010 | Discuss (0)
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StudioGPU announced today the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Quarterly has published an industry white paper focusing on StudioGPU MachStudio™ Pro software. The white paper, "Ending the Tradeoff of Time vs. Quality when Creating 3D Computer Graphics Content - Stepping Up the Production Workflow with Real-Time Rendering Software," by Alex Herrera, senior analyst at Jon Peddie Research, focuses on streamlining 3D workflow and rendering pipelines with non-linear real-time technology.

Dell Latitude 13 and Dell Precision M6500 — the “Beauty and Beast” of Business Com

Posted by Webmaster on February 16th 2010 | Discuss (0)
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Designed as core additions to Dell’s lineup of commercial PCs, the Latitude 13 ultra-portable and Dell Precision M6500 dual core mobile workstation meet the needs of an increasingly mobile and collaborative workforce, enabling customers to work anywhere at any time with anyone, breaking down the borders of business as usual. “Mobility and collaboration have shifted from a business perk to a critical necessity,” said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. “With the Latitude 13 and Dell Precision M6500 Dell is offering two solid mobility options that also open the lines of collaboration.”

Notebooks Gain Balance between Performance and Battery Life with NVIDIA Technology

Posted by Webmaster on February 16th 2010 | Discuss (0)
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Tags: nvidia netbook mobile embedded portable notebook ipad optimus flash

“The genius of NVIDIA Optimus is in its simplicity,” said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research, a pioneer of the graphics industry and a leading analyst. “One can surf the web and get great battery life and when one needs the extra horsepower for applications like Adobe Flash 10.1, Optimus automatically switches to the more powerful NVIDIA GPU.”

Imagination’s POWERVR SGX passes 100 OEM products milestone

Posted by Webmaster on February 16th 2010 | Discuss (0)
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Tags: 3d graphics mobile embedded oem acceleration imgtec sgxpowervr powervr

Imagination Technologies reports that, with over 100 products from a wide range of leading OEMs now shipping using its POWERVR SGX graphics acceleration technology 2010 will be the year in which OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics overtakes OpenGL ES 1.1 devices in terms of new deployments. Says Dr. Jon Peddie, president, Jon Peddie Research: "Simply put: Imagination's POWERVR is the standard for mobile 3D graphics. The company has built an enviable lead, but more than that it has created an opportunity for both its customers, and the wider developer ecosystem to build a market that for applications alone will be worth more…

Are you a Social Networking Expert? Be sure to keep your Networking Edge

Posted by Webmaster on January 17th 2010 | Permalink
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Everyone considers themselves an expert on Social Networking and in a sense that is true. Social Networking is about people and the myriad ways in which they're using the Internet to connect for business, education, and pleasure. Jon Peddie's latest report "The Social Web and its Implications", by industry expert and technology pioneer Brad DeGraf, gathers the available intelligence on Social Networking, organizes it, and most importantly offers valuable suggestions about putting these resources to work. DeGraf also offers literally hundreds of pointers to valuable information resources. There are many reports available for Social Networking, but we have not seen any…

Analysts Speculate on Larrabee flap

Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2009 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie weighs in on the Larrabee announcement from Intel. Jon Peddie figured Intel looked at the flattening growth numbers for discrete GPUs and decided Larrabee didn't have what it takes to compete in a tightening market. But he's less sure if Intel will regroup and make a second stab at a discrete GPU platform or switch the focus of the technology to HPC. HPCwire has put together a few analysts thoughts in a recent entry.

Intel will never buy Nvidia

Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2009 | Permalink
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Industry analyst John Peddie has dismissed reports of Intel buying Nvidia as "naïve speculation." According to Peddie, Intel plans to design a "whole family" of Larrabee chips based on X86 architecture. Considering the recent FTC filing and Nvidia siding with the FTC, this rumour is pretty well stomped out.