TIBURON, CA – June 6, 2012 -Those looking for the first quarter of 2012 to provide some undeniable proof that the workstation market was breaking out of its recent holding pattern were disappointed. Alex Herrera, Senior Analyst at Jon Peddie Research, reports that around 918.4 thousand workstations shipped worldwide in the quarter, as the market shrunk further from the peak … Read more
E3 kickoffs off today at the Los Angeles Convention Center, among the questions this year, what is going on with the Wii U, will it save the universe? There will also be an opportunity to check out Microsoft’s SmartGlass. The show is running from June 5th thru June 7th this year. Check out the E3 show floor HERE.
Normally, the first quarter of the year is down, and this year’s Q1 was no different, but the decline is less than the 10-year average. AMD introduced the new Radeon HD7900 series early in the quarter and as a result picked up market share. Subscribes can download the new Add-In Graphics report HERE.
Our esteemed co-founder, Kathleen Maher, has invented another (thought you already knew about it but didn’t) concept—Digital Reality. Now we add that to virtual reality, augmented reality, and reality TV. Do we need more forms of reality? Well, actually you do. Digital reality shares a lot of similarities with augmented reality in that there is a 3D model, and a … Read more
JPR has released the latest MarketWatch report that tracks quarterly GPU shipments. Shipments during the first quarter of 2012 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, declining from the previous quarter; however, this quarter’s decline (of 0.8%) was less than the ten-year average of 3.1%. Subscribers can download the latest MW report HERE.
TIBURON, CA-May 23, 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 Q1’12. The JPR AIB Report tracks computer graphics boards, which carry discrete graphics chips. They are used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, and other devices such as scientific instruments. They may … Read more
TIBURON, CA-May 22, 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 Q1’12. The news was not good. AMD was able to grow shipments over last quarter by 0.3%, in a down quarter. Intel slipped 1.3% and Nvidia declined 4.5% from the last quarter. … Read more
Autodesk Inc. said Thursday that is first-quarter profit rose 14 percent as revenue rose sharply, it expects revenue in the current quarter to be between $580 million and $600 million. Autodesk expects full-year revenue to be up at least 10 percent from last year when revenue was $2.22 billion. That implies revenue of at least roughly $2.44 billion. Read more … Read more
Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference is entering it’s 2nd day today at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. You can follow the happenings at GTC HERE where you will be able to view a re-cap of Jen-Hsun’s keynote along with press releases and updates from the show.
There’s a lot of assumptions running around in this PC industry, based on hearsay and tidbits of data. We just finished running some tests on Nvidia’s new dual-GPU AIB, the GTX 690 (see p. 11). Nvidia wasn’t very happy with our first results, and told us we were being CPU-bound by doing the tests at HD. Aside from the counter-intuitive … Read more
The annual display of Emerging Technologies is one of Siggraph’s most popular activities. This year’s Siggraph will be August 5-9, 2012 in Los Angeles. Read more on Siggraph’s Emerging Technologies on our GFXspeak website.
The new Autodesk 123D Catch app allows users to capture the world around them in 3D. Photos of vacation memories, family or other mementos brought to life in 3D. Captures made in 123D Catch can also be used as the foundation for further 3D modeling, 3D animation, create a 3D printed object. Read more on 123D and see the gallery … Read more
