Thrills and Obstacles to 3-D Television
October 23, 2009
3-D television expected to come to homes in 2010 | www.cnn.com
The technological innovation for 3-D television has been out of laboratory and prototyping stage. What does it mean to the marketplace while key players in different technologies are commencing a volume push in the consumer electronics market?
Nvidia leaps into supercomputers
October 5, 2009
Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing" | www.tgdaily.com
Nvidia is in the test of its life with big stakes, big investments, and big risks – Fermi is a hail Mary pass if ever there was one. It’s not as reactionary or impulsive as some have suggested and a plan I think has been in the process for the past three years. Nvidia has been putting the pieces in place for the Fermi product through acquisition, industry initiatives and setting up the platform. One of Jen Hsun Hung’s strengths is his long range vision and I think you can see it at work here.
July 30, 2009
Digitimes Insight: Intel Pine Trail launch to delay | www.digitimes.com
In a meeting yesterday with Intel excutives I learned that Pineview, Intel's Atom CPU intgrated with a graphics processor and memory manger, is not delayed as has been reported elsewhere.
Continued growth in all segements in computer graphics industry
July 28, 2009
The Compute Graphics market will have a CAGR of 8% to 2013 | www.jonpeddie.com
The computer graphics industry has enjoyed almost non-stop growth since it was established the late 1970s. Today, computer graphics hardware and software (not counting services, maintenance and other aspects) are worth $68 billion – that’s a mind boggling average growth rate of 16.5% for 28 years! (Charts available: email jon@jonpeddie.com)
The convergence of CG computing and visualization has arrived.
July 28, 2009
How does the world change when you can see what you’re thinking? | jonpeddie.com
Today, with GPU compute the researcher launches the computation in his or her own lab with his or her local supercomputer and with the same machine does the visualizations the way he or she wants them done. Depending on the complexity of the task jobs that took weeks now takes days, jobs that took days can be done in minutes and the time scales are further compressing. Productivity goes up, quality of research goes up, humanity benefits - it is the convergence of compute and viz.
2009 Digital Video Software Market
July 27, 2009
Digital video software market hit $1.5 billion in 2008. | jonpeddie.com
The digital videos software market supplies the tools for movie and TV making and has weathered the recession well and is poised for growth in 2010.
The market for GPUs exploded in Q2 29%
July 27, 2009
AMD soars in Q2'09, Intel and Nvidia also show great gains | jonpeddie.com
We've hit bottom and have stone-skipped off - Q3 and 4 are looking very good for the PC indiustry
How Clean Energy Technologies Turn to Green?
July 6, 2009
Cree CEO Meets President Obama to Discuss Advantages of LED Lighting | finance.yahoo.com
How has President Obama delivered the core message in clean energy policy? How does the clean energy sector transform the stage for investment communities?
October 15, 2008
Apple Holds Prices on Laptops - Computer Maker Refreshes MacBook Lineup | online.wsj.com
What would be Apple's strategy for a sustained position in the laptop market? What has hindered Apple to do more for a profit when cost reduction is a critical issue? How could the new lines appeal to catch more buys?
A Broken Leg at Corning (GLW)?
October 15, 2008
CORNING: High Tech, Big Value | www.forbes.com
How did Corning (NYSE: GLW) push for its valuation over the year? What did Corning claim to be outstanding for Q2, Q3 and Q4 of 2008? How did Corning influence and then surprise financial analysts?
Switzerland sues Google over Street View privacy concerns
November 13, 2009
Here Come the Droids! A brief review of Verizon Wireless' new Droid line-up.
November 11, 2009
October 30, 2009
Vodafone Orange Iphone Deal Ends Two Years Exclusivity Of O2 In UK
October 5, 2009
IPhone Coma Mode puts Apple in the ICU
September 19, 2009