But had any of them used one to order pizza? Almost all had, and several said they kept flyers and even had them taped on the fridge door. So are they badly designed? I asked again. It was like the scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the peasants are trying to work out the tortured logic of what it means if a witch burns: b-because… they’re made… of wood?’ Design is what it does, not what it looks like. And what pizza flyers do is sell the desire for pizza. (Thanks @JonathanBaldwin for the link.)]]>
So, our next step is to license our GPU cores and visual computing patent portfolio to device manufacturers to serve the needs of a large piece of the market.
The reality is that we’ve done this in the past. We licensed an earlier GPU core to Sony for the Playstation 3. And we receive more than $250 million a year from Intel as a license fee for our visual computing patents.
Now, the explosion of Android devices presents an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate this effort.
We’ll start by licensing the GPU core based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture, the world’s most advanced, most efficient GPU. Its DX11, OpenGL 4.3, and GPGPU capabilities, along with vastly superior performance and efficiency, create a new class of licensable GPU cores. Will this simply add revenues, or will it disrupt Nvidia itself?]]>
Images can dwarf text files like CSS and JavaScript: according to httparchive.org, they comprise over 60% of the transfer of average webpage. GigaOM reports that webpages grew by 50% between November 2010 and May 2012, and estimates an average size of 2MB by 2015. Combine this growth with the increasing use of mobile devices (i.e., expensive, capped bandwidth), and we're heading in the wrong direction.
The solution: optimize images with WebP.
Fortunately, Google and other companies are working to reduce bandwidth usage. A major achievement is a new image format, WebP, which handles lossy (JPEG) and lossless (PNG) images, all while reducing file sizes. ]]>