Robert Dow

Intel’s long-anticipated entry into the graphics add-in board market has arrived

  With the release of ASRock’s Challenger ITX Arc A380-based add-in board, it looks like Intel’s foray back into the discreet graphics industry has finally arrived. ASRock’s new Challenger ITX 6GB board is listed on Newegg for $139.99, with detailed specifications available on the ASRock website. At $140, the Challenger ITX is an entry-level graphics board with a price point … Read more

AMD introduces trio of new add-in boards for the 6000 series

Today AMD is rolling out three new add-in boards that will round out its 6000 series family. There will be one new board for each market segment. AMD reports that there are 3 billion gamers worldwide, many of which have not upgraded their PCs to the latest generation of GPUs, and these new cards are here to provide frame rates … Read more

AIB prices are finally trending down—slightly

Graphics add-in board (AIB) prices, which were at historic highs in Q2 of 2021 before starting to stabilize in Q4, are now experiencing a drop. The factors contributing to the price hikes of AIBs were many. The supply chain issues caused by the pandemic, more consumers working from home and choosing to upgrade their PCs, crypto miners gobbling up every … Read more

Q4’21 maintains torrid — albeit unsustainable — workstation market growth

As part of its ongoing research on the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its JPR Workstation Report Market Quarterly for Q4’21. There will be a quarter that ends the workstation market’s historically high growth, but the fourth quarter of 2021 wasn’t it. Yet again, quarterly growth far outpaced levels any would justifiably describe as organic, with Q4 … Read more