VeriSilicon Holdings Co., a Shanghai-based provider of IPs and custom silicon design services, announced Monday (Oct. 12) a definitive agreement to acquire Vivante Corp., a Santa Clara-based embedded GPU IP vendor, in an all-stock transaction.The two companies — both privately held — declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but said the combined company’s revenue, as of December 31, … Read more
Discrete GPU shipments have been in decline for some time, as software to take advantage of their power lags and Moore’s Law let free- GPUs, those integrated GPUs that come with the processor and aren’t charged for, catch up and run three- and four-year-old apps pretty well. Seems most folks are happy with three- or four-year-old apps, and operating systems, … Read more
Let’s start buying stuff The fed didn’t raise interest rates because the economy and inflation are flat. China’s artificially stimulated and misrepresented growth is off (even China couldn’t hide it this time). Russia is taking over everything from Ukraine to Syria, and leaving the rest to the Daesh. The polar bears are starving because of global warming, and the U.S. … Read more
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Google understands packets better than any, any, company on the planet. If you have trouble with that statement, go back to the sports page or People, and skip this. Google is developing an autonomous, cute, small, bug-like four-wheel vehicle with an electric propulsion system and a zillion computers and sen¬sors. These tiny cars, if that’s even the correct name for … Read more
After a surprisingly painful first quarter, stakeholders in the markets for workstations and professional GPUs were looking for far healthier results in Q2'15, along with reassurance the market's fortunes were not following the downward path of the broader PC industry. According to the market and technology research firm, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), they got both, as the industry breathed a … Read more
3D memory, wide memory buss, and very cool AMD says the new R9 Nano is the fastest Mini ITX graphics card ever designed to drive 4K gaming in the living room and can do it because of ultra-quiet, ultra-compact PC designs. We first saw the AIB at E3 in June, and we’ve been waiting for it ever since. The R9 … Read more
AR lets you move; VR is restricted because you can’t see the real world and so you bump into things. Sitting still in a planetarium or movie is not VR just because things are in 3D, or offer a 180-degree FOV (field of vision). To be VR it has to be interactive. And yet, the VR we have today is … Read more
Despite strong in the Performance sector, quarter-to-quarter AIBs shipments decreased -16.81% and -18.77% year-to-year
Year-to-year total GPU shipments dropped 18.8%—Desktop graphics down 21.7%, notebooks down 16.9%
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/market_watch/
http://jonpeddie.com/download/media/slides/SIG15_Next_Gen_Tech_CGmarket.pdf
