Jon Peddie

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The PC market is shifting

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Jon Peddie

The companies you know as computer makers buy, not make, all the component parts. Who’s to say the component makers ...

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SPEC announces wide slate of new benchmarks

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Jon Peddie

This tanker doesn’t turn fast, but when it does you know it.   The last version of SPECviewperf 11, the ...

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Fund-raising pandas and other applications for 3D sensing

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Jon Peddie

PrimeSense and Open NI are leading the next wave of 3D sensor applications.  Everybody wants in on the act. PrimeSense, ...

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Nvidia buys The Portland Group

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Jon Peddie

Silicon is stupid without a good compiler. You all know CUDA is coming to mini Kepler, AKA Tegra, right? How ...

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Samsung packing the tablet market with three new Galaxy Tab models

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Jon Peddie

Company offers more models then two of its competitors combined. Samsung Electronics Co. is the sec­ond-largest maker of tablets after ...

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Loving your 7-inch Huawei phone/tablet

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Jon Peddie

Holding it up to your ear may be a more conspicuous act than some are ready for. If you wouldn’t ...

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Nook platform opening up to third party manufacturers

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Jon Peddie

The well-regarded but lagging competitor to Amazon Kindle wants to find a new competitive edge and cut its losses. The ...

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Growth of mobile technology drives game platform proliferation

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Jon Peddie

Traditional console vendors and newcomers are both staking out positions in this new market. By Jon Peddie I’ve predicted for ...

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New graphene light sensor could change the imaging business

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Jon Peddie

The new device is 1,000x more sensitive to light than the sensors found in today’s smartphones and digital cameras and ...

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Microsoft unveils AMD-powered Xbox One

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Jon Peddie

The unveiling was sparse on details, but it looks like the new console will be as much about the total ...