ACER was kind enough to give us a look at their new H7531D DLP projector. A local band Midi-Matilda was able to take the projector and make a catchy original video that is quickly becoming a local web sensation. See how they were able to take ACER technology couple it with stop action and some imagination to create a unique … Read more
HP today introduced Folio, its first business Ultrabook, which features a thin and light design. The new laptop in the Ultrabook class measures less than 18mm with a 13.3-inch display and weighs in at 3.3 pounds. HP designed impressive security options into the business Ultrabook and also features a Solid State drive and up to 9 hours of battery life. … Read more
Today Nvidia releases Maximus technology, a new way to simultaneously harness the computation power in both an Nvidia Quadro graphics processing unit (GPU) and an Nvidia Tesla general-purpose GPU. Nvidia claims—and major vendors agree—that Maximus is the next step in bringing the benefits of Moore’s Law to the professional graphics desktop. Read more on Maximus HERE.
ARM president Tudor Brown announced on Thursday that he will be stepping down in May. ARM has shipped more than 15 billion chips “based on ARM-processor technology” since the company was founded in 1990. “I am very proud to have been so closely involved in building ARM to be the highly successful and respected company that it is today,” said … Read more
Adobe announced today that it is restructuring to better align resources around Digital Media and Digital Marketing. This will result in the elimination of approximately 750 full-time positions primarily in North America and Europe. Adobe also confirmed that it will cease Flash development on mobile devices in favor of the Adobe Air platform and HTML5. Read more HERE.
Autodesk today acquired specific technology-related assets and hired some employees from GRIP Entertainment, a privately-held artificial intelligence (AI) game middleware company. The acquisition continues the Autodesk strategy to create a complete pipeline for the creation of believable interactive characters for games. Read more on the acquisition HERE.
We’ve just finished a round of reports, our semiconductor quarter shipments and forecast report Market Watch, our quarterly AIB shipments and forecast report, the mobile devices report, and the HPU/EPG report and forecast. Forecasting is a tricky business and even though we’ve been at it longer than most, it never gets easy, and it’s always scary. We had some brilliant … Read more
The EnergyCore ARM-based SoC launched today will power a new breed of servers. Its ARM-based “EnergyCore” Server-on-a-Chip, consumes as little as 1.5 watts. HP is the first company to incorporate Calxeda’s EnergyCore SoCs into servers announcing its design into it’s Redstone Server Development Platform. You can read more on Calexda’s new processor and HP HERE.
Intel led the quarter with 36.5% growth, Nvidia had 30% growth TIBURON, CA-November 1 2011—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 Q3’11. Shipments during the third quarter of 2011 did (finally) behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was higher … Read more
Intel led the quarter with 36.5% growth, Nvidia had 30% growth. Shipments during the third quarter of 2011 did (finally) behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was higher on a year-to-year comparison for the quarter. Get all the data and analysis in our new Q3’2011 edition of MarketWatch.
ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih introduced the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet at the AsiaD. The Transformer Prime is the world’s first tablet to feature Project Kal-El, NVIDIA’s next-generation Tegra mobile processor. Kal-El is a the first penta-core mobile processor and includes a brand-new 12-core GPU that delivers up to 3x the graphics performance of Tegra 2. You can read more … Read more
I have referred to the smart phone as a PC—personal companion. But now have expand that title to include the tablet, it too is a PC. So, maybe a smartphone is a PPC—personal pocket companion. As a matter of fact, we have lots of personal companions, battery powered mobile devices. The demand for these devices has exploded creating a market … Read more
