The industry is dominated by followers and just one leader Remember the famous ad Apple ran at the Super Bowl in 1984? It featured a woman with the sledge hammer. That was the beginning and the end of innovation for the PC cloners. That was when Apple took the leadership position in PC design, and has never looked back or … Read more
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An Analysis of the GPU Market focuses on the GPU and how the new generation of Embedded processors affect discrete GPUs. Jon Peddie research has made our latest white paper paper available as a free download here.
AMD announced shipments of the first processors based on its new x86 “Bulldozer” architecture. Initial production of the first 16-core x86 processor, codenamed “Interlagos,” began in August shipping to OEM customers. “Interlagos” is expected to launch and be available in partner systems in the fourth quarter of this year. You can read more on the launch here.
TIBURON, Calif- September 6, 2011 – It’s been a while since the workstation market’s behavior could be described as normal, but that’s an appropriate one-word description for the second quarter of 2011 – not great, not bad, but pretty normal. And all things considered, normal is fine. Completing analysis of the workstation and professional graphics market for the second quarter, … Read more
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At 42.3% of units in the second quarter, HP is now the clear leader of the workstation market, further distancing itself from number two Dell, at 33.8%. But the growth story from the second quarter came not from the leader but from number three Lenovo, which jumped from 7.9% to 9.9% share of worldwide units.
GlobalFoundries has demonstrated its 20 nanometer process node with the production of a test chip. The company – which partners with AMD, Qualcomm and Broadcom – demonstrated full support for every step in a 20nm workflow, and has invited customers to evaluate the technology. Production of 20nm is still at least a year away while Intel plans to roll out … Read more
Autodesk has acquired certain technology-related assets from Numenus GmbH, a software provider of high-end visualization technology used to render and review 3D datasets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Numenus’ founders will join Autodesk. Read more on the acquisition here.
The computer graphics industry has been a growth industry since it was established the late 1970s. Weathering the storms of the recession of 2009, the CG industry is back on track and showing new invigorated vitality and potential. Computer graphics hardware market reached $53 billion in 2010 and should exceed $67 billion in 2011. The market for CG software was … Read more
With all the discussion swirling around the sell off of the HP Tablet at $99 this week, there is a discussion point that has been overlooked. There is now a brand new business opportunity. Generally it is very hard to get developers to target devices that don’t have a fairly large install base without serious incentives beyond the token free … Read more
Lost in the Earth-shattering report of Steve Jobs’ departure was the news that AMD has named a new CEO. Rory Read most recently President and COO of Lenovo will take over the reigns at AMD. “I believe AMD’s technology portfolio and design expertise position the company to lead in market segments beyond the traditional PC ecosystem” said Rory, you can … Read more
