Seasonality coming back? TIBURON, CA-February 27, 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 Q4’11. The JPR AIB Report tracks computer graphics boards, which carry discrete graphics chips. They are used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, and some other devices such as … Read more
AMD led the quarter with 7.8% quarter-to-quarter growth TIBURON, CA-22 February, 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 Q4’11. We found that shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, the new seasonality that has … Read more
Jon Peddie Research has released its latest edition of MarketWatch. AMD’s overall graphics market share increased 1,8% from last quarter due mostly to HPU shipments.Intel continues to be the overall market share leader, elevated by Core i5 EPG CPUs, Sandy Bridge, and Pineview Atom sales for Netbooks. Nvidia showed good desktop discrete market share gain (3.7% qtr-qtr), and 0.1% in … Read more
Using the latest tools from SolidWorks, Nvidia, and Dell, Trek designed a new mountain racing bike that took top honors in 2011. “By powering 3D simulations in SolidWorks, the Quadro cards let us see hot spots in the frame structure right away. Faster iterations in simulation meant we were able to design the bike more cost-effectively and get to tool … Read more
Registration is now open for its third GPU Technology Conference in the U.S., one of the world’s fastest-growing events focused on computational science and visualization. GTC 2012 will be May 14-17, 2012 in San Jose. Nvidia’s global series of events focuses on how GPUs are transforming science, engineering, and many other computational-based endeavors. Register HERE.
Andy Grove is credited with applying the term inflection point to business. In his book Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove said that Inflection Points provide huge strategic advantages to the companies capable of moving on them. Intel has continued to embrace the strategy and everyone else would like to. Today, everyone uses the term inflection point as if they invented … Read more
Quarterly revenue topped a half-billion euros for the first time in company history. Dassault Systèmes ended 2011 on a strong note, with solid growth for both the quarter and in full-year results. Revenues broke all-time highs for both SolidWorks and the PLM products in the quarter and for the year. Read more on Dassault’s record quarter HERE.
Sign up to register for EVGA’s gaming event for a chance to win a Digital Storm Hailstorm PC, Intel Processors and a lot more. Sign up any time after February 7th, then play on any EVGA game server at any time between February 20th and March 4th to qualify. Official gaming will begin on February 20th at 4PM Pacific and … Read more
Lucid has also developed intelligent real-time graphics pipeline flow that provides balance between visual quality, frame rates, interaction responsiveness that affect game immersion. The idea is to improve gaming performance, responsiveness and visual quality by intelligently predicting redundant rendering tasks. Read more on Jon’s article on Lucid HERE.
For those of you who went to CES this year, you should have recovered by now. And if you suffered through 2011, you should be seeing some little rays of sunshine and hope for the on-coming year. And if you accept my premise about CES being a leading indicator, then you should feel pretty good about 2012. I first proposed … Read more
Revenues for Q’1 came in at $4.68 billion up 40 percent year-over-year, Operating income was up 24 percent year-over-year to $1.55 billion. Qualcomm is raising revenue and earnings guidance as well with new forecasts of $4.6 billion to $5 billion, with earnings per share of $0.91 to $0.97. You can read on Qualcomm’s record quarter HERE.
AMD is holdings it’s 2012 Financial Analyst day in Sunnyvale, CA today. Executive presentations kick off at 9:00AM Pacific time with a line-up headed up by new CEO Rory Read, Mark Papermaster, CTO, General Manager Lisa Su and Thomas Seifert, CFO. You can check out the AMD Analyst Day webcast HERE.
