It has turned into the summer of mobile workstation refreshes — and new products — for Lenovo. In June, the company launched an upgrade of its core 15-in model, the ThinkPad P52, and the introduction of a 52s. And most recently at August Siggraph, the company released a 17-inch refresh, the ThinkPad P72, along with a new (the fourth) addition … Read more
Threadripper has played a significant role in helping AMD redefine itself in the CPU market. The original Threadripper spawned from the first round of Zen generation parts in 2017, pushed the core count up to 16―more cores than the gaming or professional computing segments had seen to date. Threadripper pushed the core count up so dramatically, it forced Intel to … Read more
It’s been roughly two decades since workstation OEMs were building new models on their own schedules. Back in the 90’s, vertically integrated industry pioneers like SGI, HP, Sun, IBM, and DEC produced everything, from the chassis and operating systems to the CPU and GPU chips inside. They introduced new workstations whenever they were able to deliver all the key components … Read more
Intel virtually owns the market for workstation CPUs. However, with its Zen generation processors, AMD can mount its most significant threat in years. Here, we look at the very top end of the market, assessing both massively-core’d dual socket Intel Xeon Scalable and AMD Epyc platforms.
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For the first time in a decade, AMD’s CPU portfolio is positioned to not only serve one or two segments of the workstation market, but its entire breadth. Based on its Zen CPU architecture the company has rolled out four brands to power virtually any type of workstation model a professional customer may be interested in — from the single … Read more
Nvidia’s GPU journey runs full circle to embrace the synergy of graphics and AI In a way, Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference of 2018 marked the culmination of the company’s past-decade journey, one in which it has explored and enabled new GPU markets, but one that has used that journey to further the goals of its original mission. A long way … Read more
Units up 3.6% from last quarter, 5.4% from last year
Boxx stands out for its attention to detail and its understanding of its customers. So do these new Zen-based workstations
HP unveils its take on a tabletmode mobile workstation Describing an industry as mature tends to connote visions of conservative businesses that follow established design formulas and serve equally established markets, with adequate but uninspired products. Though it would qualify as mature by virtually any sensible measure, the workstation market exhibits none of those traits that adjective might suggest. And … Read more
Featuring new Xeons and an overhauled design Along with rivals HP, Dell and Lenovo, the number four vendor of workstations worldwide has announced two new Celsius workstations built around Intel’s latest Xeon Scalable and Xeon W processors. Shipping this quarter will be the premium 2S Celsius R970 and 1S Celsius M770. Prior to the tail end of 2017, Fujitsu’s premium … Read more
Garners support from Dell, HP, and Lenovo It’s no secret AMD has long been eyeing a return to performance-focused PC markets. For the better part of a decade, AMD CPUs have effectively been locked out of markets like workstations for lack of competitive parts to pitch against Intel’s Core i7 and Xeon. But with Zen on the drawing board for … Read more
