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
The final day of the conference will focus on system designers and software developers, those interested in building ARM-based modules, boards, and systems. HERE reporter Katie Morgan chats with Brian Carlson of Texas Instruments on the continued success of the OMAP 4 and what we have to look forward to with OMAP 5.
JPR is releasing a new report on the PC Gaming Hardware Market. This year over 250 million game capable home and personal use PCs will ship. The PC market overall has slowed in 2011, but the gaming segment has stayed strong in all regions, not just developing countries. Read more on the new report HERE.
The EPG/HPU will truly revolutionize the PC and associated industries. The amount of computation capability available in the size, weight, power consumption of systems equipped with EPG/HPUs will upset the market dynamics like never before. Read more HERE.
Today, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced its new report on mobile devices, and their processors. In 2011, with the full scale production of scalar X86CPUs with powerful multi-core, SIMD graphics processing elements, a true inflection point has occurred in the PC and related industries. And, as a result, the ubiquitous … Read more
Autodesk made a stealth acquisition last week, scooping up Netherlands-based Alice Labs. The small team, closely related to ongoing research at technical universities, has previously released Studio Clouds, an innovative 3D laser point cloud editing technology that offers plug-ins for Autodesk’s 3ds Max and Maya modelers. Go HERE to read more on the acquisition.
Khronos extends a formal invitation to participate in its KITE initiative. KITE, provides free, Web-based resources and Wiki hosting of Khronos-approved educational materials for teachers and students. Khronas is building a repository of open courseware from universities and colleges worldwide and invite participation. Please read more on the KITE program and how to participate HERE.
The market for these devices has exploded creating a market for over two billion processors. According to the report: * Over three quarters of a billion smartphones will ship in 2016 * Feature and other phones will hit 869 million units in 2016 * Almost 300 million tablets will ship in 2016 Read more on the new report HERE.
Mobile Devices and Their Semiconductors: Too Many Products, Too Many Suppliers?
Do you have a hammer at home? Of course you do, everyone does. You might even have two, maybe three (I have four). When was the last time you bought a hammer? If you’re 40 years old, and you have four hammers, then your average buy-cycle is one hammer every ten years. Doesn’t sound like a growth market, and yet … Read more
Dolby is holding their Berkeley Lounge Event this week to help promote and share ideas concerning the world of social media. They have a impressive list of guest interactive speakers lined up through Thursday and then a special event being held at the Bear’s Lair on Bancroft in Berkeley (Thursday, 1PM to 6PM) Go HERE for the line-up of guest … Read more
Leveraging a28nm process from TSMC, Qualcomm has started production on their new MSM8970 with Adreno 422 GPU. The new 1.73 GHz processor (will be 2.5GHz by next year) has Qualcomm’s micro-architectural design with four independent ARM Cortex A15 cores plus a 32-core GPU, , plus 128 bit SIMD engine, plus three DSPs, plus a handful of hardwired engine for codecs … Read more
