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Jon Peddie

Dr. Jon Peddie Ph.D.

President, JOHN PEDDIE RESEARCH

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Council Member Biography

Jon Peddie, PhD, is one of the pioneers of the graphics industry, starting his career in computer graphics in 1962. After the successful launch of several graphics manufacturing companies, Dr. Peddie began Jon Peddie Associates in 1984 to provide comprehensive data, information and management expertise to the computer graphics industry. Dr. Peddie lectures at numerous conferences on topics pertaining to graphics technology and emerging trends in digital media technology. He is frequently quoted in trade and business publications, and contributes articles to numerous publications including Upside Magazine, OEM Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of several books including Graphics User Interfaces and Graphics Standards, High Resolution Graphics Display Systems, and Multimedia and Graphics Controllers. Dr. Peddie has also been the Founder and President of Jupiter Systems; Executive Vice President of Comarc; President of Fluidyn systems; and the President and Founder of Data Graphics. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History

2001 - Unspecified
President, JOHN PEDDIE RESEARCH

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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.

Pineview not delayed

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.

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