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February 22, 2008

Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Tim Draper Advocates for Nuclear Energy, More Competition in Education/Government and Less Building Regulations (video)

Tim Draper, a prominent Silicon Valley VC, was on a mission this morning during his panel about Silicon Valley's future at Joint Venture's State of the Valley. With him on the panel was also San Jose mayor, Chuck Reed....

An Insider Look at Silicon Valley

This morning I'm attending Joint Venture's State of the Valley annual “town meeting” in downtown San Jose. I'll be attending most of the session and particularly the Silicon Valley Index, a good indicator of Silicon Valley's economy strength and...

February 21, 2008

[GDC] S3 Graphics is Back!

Remember S3 Graphics, makers of graphics chips (GPUs)? No? Well, it may seem hard to believe now, but over 10 years ago, S3 was the market leader for 2D-only GPUs. But then lost market dominance to ATI and nVidia...

February 20, 2008

[GDC] Skulltrail Is Fastest Intel Platform. For Game/Movie Creators. Not a Workstation (video)

During my tour of duty at GDC, I've stopped today to see my friends at Intel. Dan Snyder, George Alfs and of course Sr. performance analyst François Piednoël (pictured) were all at the booth to show off Skulltrail, Intel's...

February 19, 2008

EyeJot Prepares Video Email Service for SMBs (video)

Today I talked with David Geller (pictured), co-founder of EyeJot about a version of the startup's Flash-based 1-to-1 video email service for small and medium businesses (SMBs), as well as the very competitive landscape and more. EyeJot is a...

February 18, 2008

VIA Continues Transition From Chipsets To CPU To Profitability. Skeptical on Montalvo X86 Chip Success (video)

We're surely living in a very interesting era. I just finished a Skype video interview with VIA's marketing vice-president, Richard Brown (pictured holding the latest Isaiah processor, increasing current C7-M processor performance by 2-4 times for the same low...