What is a handheld device?
What is it? Well, obviously it’s something you can hold in your hand. So under that broad definition we might have to include the nozzle of a gas pump as a handheld device. OK, then ...
Life’s not that bad
When I think about what it was like to use a computer in the sixties compared to using a computer today it makes all those little problems we deal with every day seem kind of ...
Too much is not enough
Ever heard me say that? Ever been near me for more than 20 minutes? And no, I’m not talking about supersizing or the world’s growing problem with obesity; I’m talking about technology. In computer graphics ...
Just what the heck is digital TV?
Unless you’ve been in deep freeze waiting for millennium meltdown or Longhorn, most countries are either in the process of, or have a schedule for, the introduction of and then the cut-over to all digital ...
Games in your hands
We see huge growth in the handheld game market. It’s a market that has three or four segments: dedicated game-only handhelds such as Nintendo’s Game-boy, mobile phone game machines like Nokia’s N-Gage, PDA game machines ...
VolksVideo
Philo Farnsworth, inventor of television, died in 1971, disappointed with how the medium had turned out. “He foresaw something a little more useful to the public,” said his biographer Donald Godfrey. You got video, ...
Graphics processors are a parallel universe
It’s spring and a new crop of graphics processors are being readied for market and I’m very excited about what’s coming. I was going to say graphics processors are so cool—but then I would have ...
The war of the hand
Two gigantic camps are forming for a war of the hand. One is the incumbent Nokia/Symbian-TI axis, and the other is the bullies from PC-land, Intel-Microsoft. Nowhere in the history of technology has a market ...
A break with the past
PCI Express will revolutionize workstations; CAD is the big winner Workstation users, especially high-end workstation users, have an insatiable appetite for high performance in their workstations, and historically they have never gotten all the power ...
It takes a village to make an SoC
As we were working on our new Multimedia in Handhelds report, I was struck by the partnerships and technology transfers that go into the SoCs developed for this booming market, and also by the lack ...
Las Vegas is broken – can it be fixed?
Friction—n 1: a state of conflict between persons [syn: clash] 2: the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another—Las Vegas doesn’t get it; they should make it smoother for visitors We ...
Looking backwards . . . and on to a great new year
Two thousand three was the watershed year for the PC and in some respects the multimedia and graphics market as well. It was the year we saw the leader of graphics unseated, and the number ...