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
The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization (SPECgpc) subcommittee recently released SPECviewperf 13, a major revision of its software for measuring the graphics performance of workstations running professional applications. SPECviewperf 13 includes new volume visualization viewsets for energy (oil and gas) and medical applications, a redesigned GUI, improved scoring and reporting methods, support for 4K-resolution displays, and updated viewsets for Maya and … Read more
Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators
Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators When HP announced the new ZBook x2 series back in October 2017 they were not just introducing a new workstation but a new category—the detachable workstation. The ZBook x2 is a culmination of hundreds of hours of research by HP. HP talked to graphic designers, artists, photographers and Creative Cloud Users and … 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
Over $4.4 billion dollars of AIBs shipped in the quarter. “The add-in graphics board market behaved seasonally in Q4'17, decreasing 4.6% sequentially, explained Jon Peddie, president of the industry’s research consulting firm Jon Peddie Research. The seasonal ten-year average for Q4 is -4.4%%, and this year it was just below that, which we think is due to the sharp rise … Read more
In one of the largest product launches outside of CES where Premium consumer products took center stage, HP is taking premium to the mainstream with its latest commercial product launch. The company has introduced three Elite commercial notebooks, two Z-series workstation notebooks, four high-res monitors, and docker for all. Elitebook 800 G5 series HP positions its EliteBook series as the … Read more
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
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
A powerful portable powerhouse
