Make it real—wait a minute…
While driving back from the AMD RV770 press meeting (NDA’d till the 25th) Robert and I discussed the issue of CG. With GPU power accelerating exponentially, while maintaining the same price points (thank you Dr. ...
The PC is more confusing than ever
Have we created a new tower of Babel? For a while there was peace in the valley. The PC market had gone through its consolidation, we got over the internet bubble, the platform was stable, ...
What’s the most important thing in CG?
Resistance is futile—you should believe That might beg the question, “what exactly is CG,” but I’m going to sidestep that discussion because it might distract from my main point, which is that the most important ...
One more feel of the elephant
With all the rumors and information coming out of Taiwan and IDF Shanghai about Intel’s plans, I decided it was time to wipe the palm prints off the crystal ball and have another go at ...
What If?
In computer games we have one word terms that are taken for multiword definitions. For example, if I said simulation what would think of? Probably you’d think of a game that requires you to use ...
A hundred million is a lot—the return of Mom & Pop
Last quarter, the GPU industry reached a milestone—one hundred million chips were shipped. Mind you, that was the fourth quarter, which is seasonally high, and we may not see that level in this first quarter, ...
Getting ready for the change
GDC has come and gone and we’re cleaning our cold weather gear getting ready to change for CeBIT. We’ve been to several analyst’s conferences, all tightly locked down with NDAs about the changes coming, so ...
A MILLION million
ORNL’s JAGUAR (Courtesy of ORNL) On Broadway in New York City, a flop is something you try to avoid, always. In politics a flop preceded by a flip can be the end of a career. ...
Foreshadowing—what we learn from the past and what to make of it
Figure 1: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Trends, styles, customs, and governments come and go. Few things remain constant. Eating, drinking, housing, Maslow-type things remain constant. But the next two levels up are the ones that ...
Is being first really important?
This isn’t the first—this is the last back page I’ll write this year, unless I decide to write one more. But is being first really so important? Well, if you’re really first, that is, if ...
Too much indexing going on
When I start up my 1.86 MHz XP-pro based HP laptop WS computer which I’ve been using for over two years and sort of gotten comfortable (albeit not satisfied) with, it’s a slow process. Checking ...
Getting the word out…when you want it out
Announcing… Almost everybody in the industry knows what announcements are going to be made before they are actually made. They may not know in exact detail all the time but we generally have a pretty ...