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Q2 Surprise: Graphics Shipments up 6.3%; PC Shipments up 2.4% According to Latest Report
TIBURON, CA-August 4, 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 Q2’11. Shipments during the second quarter of 2011 did not behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, and was higher on a year-to-year comparison for the quarter. 2011 is shaping up … Read more
AMD, ARM, and all that jazz — reading between the lines will make you cross-eyed
There have been persistent rumors, opinions, and speculation since AMD’s Fusion Developer’s Summit (AFDS) that because ARM was one of the keynote speakers a grand collusion was in the works—the ARMing of AMD.The concept gets fuel from the abrupt discharge of Dirk Meyer, the company’s former president for allegedly not having a mobile strategy.AMD’s announcement of a Fusion System Architecture—Intermediate … Read more
Adobe takes to the streets
Adobe has created a pop up gallery at 550 Sutter St. in downtown San Francisco. The storefront is designed to be an inviting space for people to come in and play with Adobe’s products and to experience new technology including glasses-less 3D screens from Alioscopy. The gallery will provide workshops and tours while it’s open. Check out the new gallery … Read more
How remote can we get
In our future world, which seems to arrive every day we are at first amazed by the newest development and then soon jaded and waiting for the next. We live Moore’s law, only faster. (I wonder if Gordon Moore lives Moore’s law, now that’d be ironic.) We know our future world will be one where everything that uses electricity and … Read more
Qualcomm Acquires Gesture Recognition Assets
Qualcomm Incorporated announced that it has acquired assets from a leader in the gesture recognition field, GestureTek. The acquisition gives Qualcomm ownership of certain intellectual property assets related to gesture recognition, as well as key engineering resources. Gesture recognition technology will be integrated into Qualcomm’s current and next-generation Snapdragon processors.
Comcast teams with Elemental on video
Comcast has tapped Elemental to create the video available to its subscribers on XfinityTV.com and to power its Xfinity TV app for Apple devices. Comcast will use Elemental technology for video processing for Comcast’s Xfinity platform; Elemental will take a file, create 18 output files, and deliver it to the file system that handles DRM processing. Read more about the … Read more
JPR Siggraph Luncheon
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Autodesk deal with Bayer Technology pushes Intergraph aside
Bayer will use a wide variety of Autodesk products in the design, construction, and operation of chemical and pharmaceutical plants worldwide. Bayer Technology Services has signed an enterprise agreement with Autodesk for the global use of a variety of software products and suites. Read more here.
RSVP for JPR’s SIGGRAPH 2011 Press Luncheon
Sponsored by AMD, Autodesk, GeoMagic, HP and Newtek this year JPR’s Press Luncheon and Panel discussion on Virtual Movie-making will be held on August 10th at noon at the Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver. There will be a panel of experts in the field to give their views and answer your questions. You check out more details and RSVP ( if … Read more
The Wintel hegemony in the PC industry may be ebbing
With announcement at CES by Microsoft that Windows 8 will run on ARM, thereby enabling another processor to run Microsoft applications, the world shifted. That was the promise with Windows NT back in 1993 when Microsoft declared it would run on the popular processors of the time which were Alpha, AMD64, IBM, Intel MIPS, and Motorola. That didn’t quite happen. … Read more
Tablets — the canary in the PC tunnel?
The second quarter by all accounts so far has not been a blockbuster, in fact in some places it’s been a career buster. The DJIA wobbled, not many new jobs were created, and the politics in the US got even more rancorous if such a thing is possible. In the PC industry the major bright spot had been tablets. Called … Read more