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Lenovo upgrades its 17-in ThinkPad mobile workstation with Coffee Lake

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 ...

AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper: highest core count in single socket workstation

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 ...

Magically leaping from hype to reality

In 2011, a scant seven years ago, Florida-based Magic Leap wow’ed the world and investors with fake videos of its planned augmented reality (AR) headset. The videos were so good, investors fell over themselves trying ...

Grasping the financials of future computing

Now that the heavily invested and reviewed Magic Leap developers kit is getting released, I think it’s an opportune time to talk about future computing and put some of the industry developments in perspective. It ...

Intel launches Coffee Lake Xeon E (rebrand) for Entry 1S workstations

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 ...

IoT redesigns Qualcomm in its own image

We’ve all seen that thing where people start to look like their dog. Apparently, it’s a real phenomenon that has produced lots of academic studies to try to explain it. No-one really knows for sure ...

Nvidia’s Turing kicks open new doors for the company

Nvidia chose Siggraph as the backdrop for its big reveal of the new Turing GPU because the company believes this new processor has the power to transform graphics on several fronts important to the Siggraph ...

AMD’s latest console design goes to China…and will probably stay there

Taking its place alongside the competition: The new console from Zhongshan Subor was exhibited at the China Joy gamer show. Photos from AnandTech show the new console displayed alongside the PS4. (Source: AMD) AMD’s latest ...

Cubic Motion makes more than faces

Although Cubic Motion has stayed primarily in the background, leaving the spotlight to its partners, the company has defined performance capture for the gaming and movie industry since its founding in 2009. Recently, the company ...

3 reasons why AMD belongs in your workstation: says AMD

Workstation users buy workstations and/or workstation accessories and peripherals for two main reasons: reliability and performance. Price is usually a low consideration because the relative cost of the hardware to the labor cost of the ...

And that door keeps spinning

Yet another former AMD executive has gone to Intel. Mark Hirsch will be Intel’s new VP of competitive software programs. Hirsch was corporate VP of systems engineering for AMD's Radeon graphics technology group.  Intel has ...

Machine learning: the new nirvana for FPGAs?

That’s the view of a significant number of players in the ML game, anyway. Even discounting the fact that this opinion is largely heard from companies with FPGAs to sell, it has gained enough traction ...