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 WS AIBs rose in popularity. Nvidia joined the market in 1999 with its Quadro line, and the dynamics started to change. In 2006 AMD acquired ATI and in a very short amount of time, AMD lost ATI’s position in the