JPR reports Global add-in board market increased year-over-year in Q1’20
Year-to-year graphics add-on board shipments increased by 7.0% and decreased quarter-to-quarter by -19.5%
A mini platform from Intel: the NUC
Mini unit now extended to professional applications
A mini platform from Intel: the NUC
From a strategic standpoint, Intel is intentionally not in the business of making money from selling systems. And for good reason, as doing so — at least on any kind of consistent basis —would alienate its OEM customers, whose existence does depend on making money from selling systems. However, to help seed demand, especially for novel products, Intel will create … Read more
Will AMD get lucky with Radeon Pro VII
AMD was one of the first consumer graphics companies to enter the professional graphics space in 1994 (Matrox being the first in 1987). Naturally, ATI with its economy of scale took a commanding lead in the fledgling COTS workstation AIB market, dominated at the time by proprietary solutions. As the workstation market moved into COTS CPUs, led by Dell, COTS … 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
Nvidia’s Q4 FY20 results
$3.1 billion in sales, $950 million profit, up 6% from last quarter
Nvidia’s Q4 FY20 results
Nvidia rides the AI wave Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.7 billion, up 8% from last quarter, and up 40% from last year. The quarter was the first increase in year-over-year sales since Q3’18. “Adoption of Nvidia accelerated computing drove excellent results, … Read more
A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance
Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with SPEC/GWPG, they take that knowledge and develop benchmarks that test real-world performance in ways that … Read more
Dell’s super XPS 13 gets even better
Better screen, battery-life, and ergonomics
Benchmarking the Radeon Pro W5700
Performance: relative to its predecessor and the most comparable Nvidia offering
Captis debuts at Adobe Max
When it all comes together: HP has been working on the challenge of real-world 3D capture for some time. At Adobe Max, the company was able to show off the process from capture to print. That Dalek sitting next to the Z4 Workstation is HP’s new Captis device. (Source JPR) It's no secret that Adobe is growing its 3D … Read more
Intel’s new 14-nm Xeon W 2200 processors
Intel once envisioned a 2018 where 10-nm processors were shipping out of its fabs, followed by a subsequent introduction of a major new core microarchitecture. However, the company’s well-chronicled delays with 10-nm meant another “optimization” generation extending Skylake one more time on 14++ was in order to fill the gap. For the Core brand processors serving high-performance PC and Entry … Read more