CG and CV are black holes for processing power
Too much, good enough—nonsense Some of you reading this may know I’ve postulated a few axioms over the years, all of them about scale in one way or another. One of my favorites is ...
The PC isn’t dead—I told you so
What’s next? In terms of economic recovery, and overall growth trends, the PC market is a lot healthier than many others— automobiles, for example. However, although the PC market recovered faster than autos, it got gob-smacked ...
We’ve crossed the line, and there’s no turning back
What’s in a name? The Holy Grail in computer graphics is the suspension of disbelief—to tell such a convincing story with pixels that the viewer not only totally believes it, but thinks he or she ...
Work anywhere any time
Share your GPU, use your colleagues We truly have entered the era of ubiquitous computing. It started in the 1960s with time-share computers, expanded in the late ’70s with the commercialization of the APRANET into ...
Learning how to count
It would be a lot easier if you weren’t such a skeptic In mid-June, Intel said, due to stronger than expected demand for business PCs, it expects second-quarter revenue to be $13.7 billion, plus or ...
Trending up
I’m so glad we started doing these quarterly issues because it gives us the ability to look at trends over a three-month period and it also helps explain why our travel budgets are so high. ...
The virtual Internet of thingies
When everything is connected, and all of the data those thingies collect is somehow stored, all the fabs in the world wouldn’t be able to make enough memory to hold all of the bits the ...
Evolving graphics APIs
Waiting for the dust to settle All hell is going to break loose and the PC industry is going to go up in flames if another API war is launched. AMD, Apple, Khronos, Microsoft, EA, ...
Forget global warming—hell just froze over
Intel puts x86 in a rock Intel announced it entered into a strategic agreement with Rockchip to accelerate the rate at which Intel brings its architecture and communications-based solutions to the Android tablet market. ROCKCHIP!?? ...
Reality, it may highly overrated
Enders Game, Rainbows End, and the Holodeck gave us the visions of our future altered reality. What we will actually experience when we get there will be none of the above, a lot of the ...
2020 computer graphics
Computer graphics, CG, hasn’t always had 20/20 vision, although it has been inherently capable of it, given its quantized basis in mathematics and physics. Until just a few years ago, the I/O elements of a ...
Early or late, big or little, high or low?
Where you are on the curve—depends on the product You’ve all seen the classic technology adoption curve (top right). It’s OK, easy to understand, and to draw, but I think it’s wrong when it comes ...