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Computex: It's All Tablets Now
Written by Bob Snyder   
Monday, 14 June 2010

You can't help but wonder what they all would have done if the iPAD flopped? At least 20 new tablets could be found at Computex.

ARM Holdings, the maker of processing cores popular in Android devices, estimates there will be about 40 tablet devices just using Arm-based processors this year. Android tablets were on display at Arm's private showroom: Foxconn's 10" N928-1, the 7"Lifepad by Prowave, and Malata with a 10" touchscreen.

WonderMedia Technologies showed off a range of new tablets based on its PRIZM SoC and Android. Tzumu Lin, President and CEO, is already predicting segmentation in tablets: "There's clearly a large and growing interest in the tablet form factor, but what we're seeing now is a rising consumer demand for some diversity in size, shape, style and price."

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Emerging Stereo 3D (S3D) PC Market
Written by Bob Snyder   
Monday, 14 June 2010

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) says the S3D market is poised for rapid growth: almost 1 million dedicated S3D PCs will ship in 2010, but that will grow to 75 million by 2014.

Although most PCs will be S3D capable due to the GPUs that are in them, not all PCs will be S3D PCs because they need a special monitor, glasses, and appropriate content. JPR expects to see S3D PCs achieve a much higher growth rate than their more traditional counterparts and they will have a higher ASP.

JPR sees 7 major apps that will take advantage of S3D on the PC:

  1. PC: Games
  2. Blu-ray DVD movies
  3. Streaming TV (IP TV)
  4. Photo-editing
  5. Home video editing
  6. Streaming video (from YouTube and other sites)
  7. Professional graphics (CAD and visualization)
Jon Peddie warns, "… the S3D market will soar within the next 3 years based on the expectation that good quality content will be produced, and the incremental cost for S3D will diminish, if not disappear. Otherwise history will repeat itself and it will be reduced to a small volume novelty market."

Go JPR S3D PC Market Study

 
 
 
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