Nvidia holds coming out party for Tegra K1 at CES
http://jonpeddie.com/news/comments/nvidia-holds-coming-out-party-for-tegra-k1-at-ces…-with-a-64-bit-denver-p/
Metal Machine Music
2013 is the year the computer began to fade away, just like Tinker Bell when all the little children stopped believing in her, just like Santa Claus, who once he is done with his trip goes into hibernation for 10 months. We’re writing almost as much about mobile devices and technology for cars, glasses, and wristwatches as we are about … Read more
A look at the future of GPUs in vision systems
http://www.embedded-vision.com/industry-analysis/video-interviews-demos/2013/12/18/december-2013-embedded-vision-alliance-member-me
Facebook as the new model
They’re probably doomed now At Autodesk University we heard several people describe something as the “Facebook of Engineering” or the “Facebook of CAD.” It’s funny, after a year or so of being de¬clared dead, Facebook has risen as the model for communication. Just a quick Google search also revealed Runkeeper as the “Facebook of Fitness,” ResearchGate is the “Facebook of … Read more
ShareCG announces the latest winners of the Get Reel Challenge
http://gfxspeak.com/2013/12/21/sharecg-announces-challenge/
Avago agrees to buy LSI for $6.6 billion
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/16/avago-lsi-acquisition/4038113/
ARM Acquires Geomerics
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131213005127/en/ARM-Acquires-Geomeri
Workstations continue solid growth pace in Q3’13: Jon Peddie Research
TIBURON, Calif- December 11, 2013–“If you thought the workstation market was in decline like its PC sibling, think again.” So reports technology and market research firm, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), which has completed its data collection and analysis of the market's third quarter results. Worldwide, the industry shipped approximately 973.1 thousand workstations in the third quarter of 2013, marking 3.6% … Read more
Workstations continue a solid growth pace in Q3’13
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/workstation_report/
The GPU’s Role In Vision Systems – Expectations, fact and fantasy
This slide presentation was part of Dr. Peddie’s lecture on Vision systems at the Embedded Vision Alliance Member Meeting in San Jose December 5th 2013. Download The GPU’s Role In Vision Systems – Expectations, fact and fantasy…
One OS, all platforms—yeah, right
How many times do we have to see this movie—its got a bad ending Sometimes I think the overpaid geniuses at Microsoft live in a cave, seldom seeing daylight, no contact with the outside world, and totally unaware of what happened last week, last year, last decade, and before that. Every so often they push the big rock blocking their … Read more
Mainframe2 building cloud platform; shows stuff at AU 2013
Mainframe2 is gearing up for an early 2014 launch and plans to make workstation applications available on demand. To prove the point, the company ran a one-day trial of their system running Photoshop in a browser and people from 138 countries gave it a whirl. Here at GfxSpeak we’re raising the stakes with an in-browser preview of Autodesk Inventor – … Read more