In Nigel’s latest blog, he wrote about using the Fusion for Gaming utility 1 to improve his notebook battery life while in-flight.  Since launching and blogging on the Fusion for Gaming utility last week, I have also done some simple, ad-hoc te ...[Read More]

  In Nigel’s latest blog, he gives the big picture of what the new AMD Fusion campaign means to our customers and business partners.  Being the new tech lover that I am, I decided to  explore the new AMD Fusion for Gaming utility.  I‘ll start bro ...[Read More]

  I have believed for years that if someone with just minor technical understanding wants to watch their digital videos or photos on their big-screen TV, the PC is still the best choice. Question is, how close are we getting to the DMA (Digital m ...[Read More]

  Two years ago, I was involved with some of the dealings of the ATI acquisition and also was part of the team who communicated it to our customers, analysts, and the press.   And for the last two years I had to deal with questions like, "wh ...[Read More]

  I wanted to follow up on my previous blog where I found 12 next-generation notebook models withing a few miles of my house.  I got a lot of questions about availability in Western Europe.  I live in Austin, TX, and do travel a lot into the regi ...[Read More]

  There has been a lot of discussion and buzz around 2nd generation notebook technologies.  It can get pretty confusing and I wanted to add my two cents to see if I couldn’t help cut through the hype.  In fact, it’s pretty easy to get distracte ...[Read More]

  Historically as an industry, we would typically pigeon-hole 3D system capability into the categories of  “games”, “design”, or “visual analysis”. While historically that was the case, in my opinion, we are about to experience a serious breakout ...[Read More]

    In my last blog I talked about the importance of a balanced platform and what I believe consumers are doing with and aspiring to do with their systems.  For this blog, I would like to discuss the required type of balance between the CPU and ...[Read More]

  There has been an incredible amount of discussion in the high-tech community talking about “balanced platforms” or “optimized systems”.  The conversation or press coverage has interestingly enough been more about which component is more relevan ...[Read More]