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Different strokes: AMD and Nvidia’s approaches are diverging in more ways than one

Posted by Alex Herrera on October 6th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, Engineering and Development
Tags: nvidia gpu ati amd opencl cuda compute directcompute gforce

It’s often hard in this business to draw clear lines separating two vendors’ technologies or products, as often they tend to converge on common solutions, the result of tackling the same problem with the same vision and set of priorities. And while it wouldn’t be right to say the latest generations of GPU technology from Nvidia and AMD are apples and oranges — they aren’t — the two companies are both very consciously differentiating themselves, both with respect to the goals that are shaping their technology decisions and in how they’re packaging up that technology to deploy products. GPU-compute representing different…

With Nehalem, OEMs Xeon — not Core — for entry level, single-socket workstations

Posted by Alex Herrera on April 8th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, Engineering and Development
Tags: intel market workstation report xeon

Intel appears to be consciously shifting brand strategy ... and pricing accordingly When it comes to workstation volume, Intel’s Core brand has consistently garnered the lion’s share of unit shipments, with its sibling Xeon brand commanding a relative minority. That long-time status quo is now set to change, however, as Intel’s introduced not only a new Xeon platform, but it appears a new strategy for the brand as well. In launching the first processors of the Nehalem generation to bear the Xeon name, Intel’s looking to extend the brand’s reach down into the entry-level, single-socket segment of the workstation market, pushing…

No longer in Dell’s rear-view mirror, HP now shares the workstation market lead

Posted by Alex Herrera on March 14th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, The Market
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With ’08 seeing long-time graybeard Sun drastically trimming back its workstation business and fellow industry pioneer IBM dropping its business altogether, the on-going between Dell and HP has become one of the more entertaining dynamics to watch in the marketplace. Dell’s been trying fervently to hold on to market leadership, while HP’s been working even harder to take it away. Not long ago, it was Dell that looked poised to dominate the workstation market the way Nvidia and Intel dominate the platform side: by a wide margin. Quarter after stellar quarter, Dell pleased stockholders and analysts alike. But a few years…