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Jon Counts All The Pixels In The World

by Jon Peddie

An old friend asked me, Hey Jon, how many pixels do you think there are in the world? TV’s, PC’s, smart phones, tablets. It’s going to be a lot! But how many? How many …

Tags:Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Vol 25 - Issue 05

AMD and Intel—Together at Last

by Jon Peddie

As much as I hate to give Kyle Bennett of HardOCP credit for anything other than being fastest driver in Texas, it turns out he may also be the fastest news reporter too. Way …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Intel| Vol 24 - Issue 42

What You Call VR, I Call a CAVE

by Jon Peddie

Back in the fall of 1991, when many of you were still in school, and the old guys reading this were trying to figure out how to get two or more AIBs to work …

Tags:CAVEs| Graphics Processing| Passive 3D| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 41

PC Monitors Suck – User UN-friendly in So Many Ways

by Jon Peddie

The PC market has been supplying monitors for more than thirty years and you might have thought that, by now, the design would be really well matched to users. No such luck! When installing …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Microsoft Resuscitates the Baby

by Jon Peddie

The father of the PC was IBM and so we suppose Microsoft was the mother. The godfather of the PC may turn out to be Qualcomm if what we saw in Taipei is any …

Tags:Microsoft| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 23| Windows

Qualcomm Thinks VR is Going to be a Big Deal

by Jon Peddie

They have invested in tools, processors, and vision Immersion enhances everyday experiences, making them more realistic, engaging, and satisfying. Qualcomm thinks VR will provide the ultimate level of immersion, creating a sense of physical …

Tags:Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Qualcomm’s DSPs Boost SmartDragon Graphics

by Jon Peddie

Our good friend, Dr. Jon Peddie, got to hear about the next generation Snapdragon 820, launched today. Very high resolution displays and graphics need significant processor power to drive them and this is where …

Tags:Qualcomm| Semiconductors| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Taming the Energy Use of Gaming Computers

by Jon Peddie

Gaming PCs consume roughly 75 billion kilowatt-hours per year of electricity in 2012 – 20% of global PC consumption. Evan Mills of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nathaniel Mills of GreeningTheBeast.com just published a …

Tags:Environment| Game Playing| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Finally, the World Gets it About Pixels

by Jon Peddie

Yesterday, we ran a Display Daily from our good friend, Dr Jon Peddie. Unfortunately, a misunderstanding meant that only two of the three pictures were included. We’ve fixed that, so if you want to …

Tags:UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Dr. Jon Likes LG’s super-wide, high-res, IPS LED Monitor

by Jon Peddie

LG’s super-wide, high-res, IPS LED Monitor Nearly three feet of desktop make this the ultimate gaming monitor Jon Peddie Why is this the ultimate gamer monitor? Wide field of view – the more you …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Vol 22 - Issue 04