TIBURON, Calif- December 10, 2012-The clouds appear to be clearing. Workstation vendors had to be relieved by third quarter market results, as the industry found some sorely-needed footing, yielding some positive – and very welcome – gains. Jon Peddie Research has announced the release of the JPR Workstation Report market quarterly for Q3’12, part of the firm’s industry-leading workstation research … Read more
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Imagination Technologies (IMG) acquired Caustic in late 2010 when the company had a barely functioning field-programmable ray-tracing chip. Since then IMG has invested in the group, and moved the design to a full application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).The Caustic Series 2 is the first family of ray tracing accelerator PC boards using IMG’s ray tracing chipset. Read more about the new … Read more
Seasonal uplift, led by Nvidia, is almost 2x 10-year average TIBURON, CA, December 5, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics add-in board (AIB) shipments and sales market share for Q3’12. JPR’s AIB Report tracks computer graphics boards, which carry discrete graphics chips. AIBs are used in desktop PCs, workstations, … Read more
Last week at Euromold Geomagic announced a new product that combines 3D point cloud data, mesh editing, and MCAD solid modeling in one product. Geomagic Spark is the result of a close collaboration between Geomagic and and SpaceClaim. Read more about Spark on GraphicSpeak.
Nvidia saw its share of the graphics chip market rise during the third quarter of 2012 at the expense of rivals AMD and Intel. But the victory is not completely encouraging—the total market shrank compared to a year ago and last quarter. Read more about our latest MarketWatch and subscribers can down load the report HERE.
As long as you say “sources say” or “as heard,” you can say almost anything. My favorite recent one was Apple dumping Intel. Sources say that because Apple is dumping Intel, Paul O, was told to go home; of course we can’t verify that. What would Apple gain by leaving Intel? Build one processor for all products—tablets, phones, and PCs? … Read more
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Holding steady: 34.3 Million discrete GPUs shipped, 4.5% over last quarter but declined 5.2% from last year. There was a 4.5% dip in overall graphics shipments in Q3 from last quarter. TIBURON, CA-November, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q3’12. The news … Read more
An accomplished trio of graphics industry leaders will join the panel discussion as Jon Peddie Research brings its annual press luncheon to Siggraph Asia. The topic, “The Democratization of 3D: 3D for the People” will no doubt be a lively and wide-ranging discussion. View our Event Page and please join us if you are press, RSVP HERE.
It was a busy week in the Siemens universe and that universe is growing just a little bit larger thanks to the Siemens PLM division. Siemens PLM has announced the acquisition of LMS International of Leuven, Belgium. Siemens PLM CEO Chuck Grindstaff said the acquisition is complementary to recent deals made by the company including the acquisition of Vistagy, read … Read more
The new report covers mobile GPU market and the major devices in which such components are used.The market consist of three classes of suppliers: companies that are vertically integrated and develop their own GPU design, companies that buy GPU IP designs and then develop a SoC, and companies that provide the GPU IP. Read more on Dynamics in SoC, GPU, … Read more
