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Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5

Happy researchers running their screen with a ball-point pen. (Source: Lenovo)   Lenovo has done a springtime refresh of their mobile office products and brought some new, powerful features to the enterprise market. Announced at MWC, Lenovo showed the latest additions to its ThinkPad and ThinkVision portfolios. The ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 is powered by an Intel vPro with … Read more

Are PC sales headed for a crash?

Regardless of how the workload is distributed between home and the office, corporations, government, and universities will now have close to twice the inventory of PCs they had before the pandemic hit.

Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P mobile workstations

Lenovo has launched the next generation of the ThinkPad P Series: the ThinkPad P15, ThinkPad P17, ThinkPad P1 Gen 3, and the new ThinkPad P15v. In addition, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 will also make its debut. Lenovo makes the bold claim that the new ThinkPad 1 the most powerful X Series commercial laptop. All the laptops are equipped … Read more

Intel launches hybrid notebook processor

Two and half years ago at an Intel Architecture Day event, Intel revealed its 3D packaging interconnect concept it call Foveros. It sounded intriguing then, but Intel didn’t have much more to say about afterwards. Intel said at the time that Foveros would pave the way for devices and systems combining high-performance, high-density and low-power silicon process technologies.  Foveros is … Read more

OEMs launch 100+ laptop designs with GeForce GPUs

(Source: Asus)   Nvidia, Intel, and over 100 notebook OEMs introduce new, powerful, and affordable devices just in time to support the work-at-home mandates of the COVID-19 crisis. Intel announced the long-anticipated 10th gen H Core i7 mobile CPU with improved power management and 5G capability. Nvidia introduced the GeForce RTX 2080 Super and 2070 Super GPUs for laptops. The … Read more

Varjo changes the game

The Finnish headset company Varjo is building no-compromise VR. In 2019, the company started making a strong case for its high-resolution products including its VR-2 headsets and its new mixed reality headset, the XR-1, being sold to developers. The company has been iterating on the same design built around human-eye resolution, integrated eye tracking, and support for industrial applications. The … Read more

Lenovo launches light workstation

Lenovo has introduced the next generation of its ThinkPad P Series mobile workstations with the release of five new ThinkPads, including the ThinkPad P73, ThinkPad P53, ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, and ThinkPad P53s and P43s. The new portfolio, says the company, is designed to meet the ever-changing power and portability needs of modern professionals across industries—both in the office and … Read more

Good week for AMD

Following on the heels of the big Samsung deal, AMD got another boost on Monday when Apple announced the Mac Pro workstation based on AMD graphics AIBs. Apple has about 8% market share of a 5.5-million units market, so the company can look forward to something north of 500k high-end (high-margin) AIBs being sold to Apple. If you’re interested in … Read more

On the horizon; AMD Intel, Lenovo, Nvidia, and Qualcomm tease new products and updates

Computex is shaping up to be another big year. Our friends at AMD, Intel, and Nvidia have been bugging us with hints and promises and demands because they’re lining up their big announcements and they want to make sure we recognize Computex week as a worldwide celebration of compute power. AMD is expected to show the 2nd Gen of Ryzen but … Read more