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How far will legacy take the PC industry?

by Jon Peddie

If all, or even most, applications end up running on servers in the cloud, who needs a Windows PC? Most users care less about the OS and underlying hardware, and more (maybe only) about …

Tags:Notebooks| PC Industry| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphones| tablets| Thin Clients

EVGA Exits Nvidia

by Jon Peddie

EVGA was founded in the 1998 and entered the PC graphics add-in board (AIB) market in 2000 when it developed the first highly efficient cooler for Nvidia’s the GeForce MX440, affectionally called the banana …

Tags:GPUs| Graphics Cards| Nvidia

Pixelworks Bring Magic to Mobile – The X7 mobile visual processor

by Jon Peddie

Since the turn of the century, video frame interpolation systems have used motion compensation (MC) and Motion estimation (ME) systems. However, such solutions are not power-efficient and can introduce interpolation errors. Pixelworks, a video …

Tags:Game Playing| Semiconductors| Smartphones

Dell’s U3223QE Ultra-black Sharable 32-in 4K Monitor

by Jon Peddie

There are occasions and situations where it would be really great if you could share your big screen 4k monitor with two PCs, maybe they are both yours or maybe one is a visitor’s. …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Windows

What the Olympic visitors Saw

by Jon Peddie

A humongous floating video wall and a virtual badminton game. Image provided by The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Image created with the cooperation of NTT For the Olympics, NTT …

Tags:Olympics| Outdoor Displays| Outside Broadcast| Sports and Stadiums

The State of the PC Industry

by Jon Peddie

The PC industry has been on a rollercoaster ride for the past decade or longer: up, down, up, down, up. In 2010, when Paul Otellini was Intel’s CEO, he forecast robust growth for the …

Tags:GPUs| Graphics Cards| Market Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| tablets

Expanscape’s Aurora 7 – a Pixel Pig’s Delight

by Jon Peddie

London-based Expanscape has developed a seven-screen transportable PC, and is surely in line for a mention, if not a prize in the Guinness Book of World Records. Click for higher resolution As pictured, the …

Tags:Notebooks

Dell Has 40-inches and 11 Million Pixels for You

by Jon Peddie

When it comes to monitors—bigger is always better. When we first started using multiple monitors so we could see more and do more, the bezels were anywhere from one to one and one-half inches …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Dell| Desktop Monitors

What’s driving GPU sales—COVID, games, or Crypto?

by Jon Peddie

We’ve been tracking GPU and before that graphics controller shipments for decades, and we think we have a sense of their trends and seasonal behavior. Most recently, our Market Watch report for Q3 2020 …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Intel| Market Data| Nvidia| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)