October 15, 2013, Imagination Developer Connection, San Francisco—Imagination Technologies held one in a series of conferences to address the information needs for their developers. Topics included hardware architectures, explain their ray tracing technologies, development tools, and a market analysis to justify the efforts from developers. Imagination has a number of processors, graphics engines, and software…
June 11, 2013, E3, Los Angeles—All of the major developers and platform vendors showed off their latest creations. Although the new platforms are driving game developments, overall, we aren’t seeing that much that is really new. There were lots of shooters, racing games, sports games, and role-playing games. Many of the bigger developers joined up…
March 27, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with IncrediBuild about their acceleration platform for software developers. They have the technology to improve Make and Build cycles through sharing of CPU cycles in game development and other vertical markets. By using the Net and parallelism, they emulate a high performance compute network. Most of…
March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—Paul Gray from NPD DisplaySearch examined the forces at work that affect TVs, as mobile devices acquire television-like capabilities. The TV set manufacturers have been adding new features and functions like social media and Internet connectivity, but these efforts may be insufficient. The TV is no…
February 18, 2013, ISSCC, San Francisco—Martin van den Brink from ASML talked about the next generation lithography and the challenges ahead. For the industry to continue its push on decreasing costs and increased functionality, scaling needs to continue. The challenges in scaling are to get more productivity and yield and the same or lower cost….
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—Dean Kamen, inventor, entrepreneur, and director of the F.I.R.S.T ( For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) presented the need for a louder voice to influence change in non-technical areas. Currently, less than half of all high school students in the US graduate. We have a major…
August 13, 2012, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jennifer Colegrove from DisplaySearch reviewed the touch and interactive technologies markets. The markets and supply chains are growing in revenue as well as the number of vendors involved. Touch screen module revenue was $4.3billion in ’09, growing to $7.1B in ’10. This is expected to exceed…