Advanced Micro Devices believes it can further gain share on the market of professional graphics adapters. The lucrative market is controlled by Nvidia Corp’s Quadro graphics cards, but AMD now believes it can capture a part of it. AMD has a long road ahead as Nvidia Corp. keeps dominating the market with its Quadro solutions. Read on at X-Bit Labs.
In a challenged PC market one user group is standing firm against the winds of change blowing many casual computer users to the “good enough” mindset behind sales of tablets and cloud computing devices—PC gamers. PC gamers continue to buy and build with a fervency that could be compared to motorcycle, 4X4, and sports car enthusiasts, always looking for more … Read more
Gartner and IDC last week (Oct. 9) released their measurements of the PC industry. The dueling giant research firms have never agreed on the exact number. If they did, one of them would become instantly redundant, but they are close enough. IDC’s count at 81.61 million is 1.7 percent higher than Gartner’s 80.28 million units worldwide. However, each firm took … Read more
Gartner and IDC last week (Oct. 9) released their measurements of the PC industry. The dueling giant research firms have never agreed on the exact number. If they did, one of them would become instantly redundant, but they are close enough. IDC's count at 81.61 million is 1.7 percent higher than Gartner's 80.28 million units worldwide. However, each firm took … Read more
Gravity, by Alfonso Cuarón and his son Jonas represents the start of a new generation of 3D film that no longer needs to showcase depth effects, but draws the audience into the screen. The filmmakers take advantage of 3D in a way no other filmmaker has done and that includes 3D’s patron saint James Cameron. – See more at: GraphicSpeak
As (I hope) you probably know, we just wrapped up our 2013 Mobile Devices study on SoCs and the GPUs inside. (Clever title, no?) If you are interested in mobile devices, and specifically the SoCs and GPUs that power them, then you should be interested in our new market study. However, it was challenging because of one word: mobile. Challenging … Read more
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This is the second in a series of observations about computer graphics (CG) trends, opportunities, and challenges. (the first installment can be found at http://jonpeddie.com/blogs/comments/trends-and-forecasts-in-computer-graphics/ ) Introduction Today’s mobile processors are improving at an astonishing rate – and consequently delivering visually stunning user experiences in less than 3 Watts of power consumption. Just how is it that mobile processors running … Read more
We have compiled some of our best articles, reviews and editorials from the third quarter 2013 and made them available in a new quarterly review. You can download the new quarterly edition HERE. You will find articles on IDF, Hot Chips, SIGGRAPH, SXSW, new gadgets and new technologies as well as news on cloud gaming, the evolving workstation market and … Read more
What we thought of as the personal computer industry is becoming something entirely new. It is fragmenting into billions of devices: phones, tablets, game consoles, car systems, and we’re already seeing the next round of fragmentation emerging as the Internet of toasters, and ther-mostats, and other things, like robots, cars, boats, and wristwatches. What’s obvious, but what we forget, is … Read more
The market for portable devices (mobile devices that we can carry including notebooks) continues to soar in spite of economic difficulties and general uncertainty. Although personal devices are not necessarily replacing the PC, they are outselling the PC. All of these devices have a graphics processor (GPU) integrated in the device’s system on a chip (SoC) application processor. Read more … Read more
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