Waiting for the dust to settle All hell is going to break loose and the PC industry is going to go up in flames if another API war is launched. AMD, Apple, Khronos, Microsoft, EA, Crytek, and others are threatening to unravel all the work done over the past 15 years to stabilize the in-dustry. Or are they? Those of … Read more
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“Cautious and tentative, but still headed in the right direction” — that's how Jon Peddie Research (JPR) senior analyst and JPR Workstation Report author Alex Herrera sums up 2014's first quarter market results in the workstation market. JPR has wrapped up and published its analysis of Q1'14 results, painting a picture of a market that has more going for it … Read more
Neuro-gaming will become a recognized category that combines games, brain research, sensors, and new kinds of user interfaces for computers and entertainment devices. The majority of products on display at the emerging NeuroGaming conference were head-mounted electroencephalogram (EEG) devices, but there were also gloves, bio-feedback, and various motion sensor systems including the Leap Motion controller. Read More at GraphicSpeak
Intel puts x86 in a rock Intel announced it entered into a strategic agreement with Rockchip to accelerate the rate at which Intel brings its architecture and communications-based solutions to the Android tablet market. ROCKCHIP!?? Mali-based, ARM-loving little Fuzhou-based Rockchip Electronics—really? Under the agreement, Rockchip, founded in 2001, and Intel will deliver Intel’s SoFIA quad-core chip with integrated 3G modem … Read more
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13 hours is enough for one workday The French, bless them, have decreed that work ends when workers leave the office. In a deal negotiated between employer federations and unions, workers can feel free to ignore emails from their bosses that come in after hours, and employers are being asked to take steps to enforce the rules. For instance, workers … Read more
Quarter-to-quarter AIBs shipments decreased 6.7%, and slipped 0.8% year-to-year
Enders Game, Rainbows End, and the Holodeck gave us the visions of our future altered reality. What we will actually experience when we get there will be none of the above, a lot of the above, and dramatically different. Gesture recognition, facial recognition, haptic feedback, voice recognition, personality recognition, emphatic recognition, health recognition, desire recognition—our immersed computer-based lives will bring us … Read more
Quarter-to-quarter total GPU shipments down 10%—Desktop graphics off 6.7%
Charts and Images for AIB Q1 2014 report Definitions The term “AIB” is an abbreviation for add-in board, also called a “card.” A “GPU” is the graphic processor unit on the AIB, also called the “chip.”
