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
Boxx stands out for its attention to detail and its understanding of its customers. So do these new Zen-based workstations
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
Featuring new Xeons and an overhauled design Along with rivals HP, Dell and Lenovo, the number four vendor of workstations worldwide has announced two new Celsius workstations built around Intel’s latest Xeon Scalable and Xeon W processors. Shipping this quarter will be the premium 2S Celsius R970 and 1S Celsius M770. Prior to the tail end of 2017, Fujitsu’s premium … 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
Workstations and 3D graphics hardware don’t hold the same status they used to at summer’s annual convening of Siggraph, a conference today with more focus on computer graphics applications and productions than the underlying platform. If you remember (we certainly do), Siggraph in the 90’s represented the epicenter of graphics and workstation hardware innovation, where heavy weights like SGI, HP, … Read more
AMD fills out its entry class Radeon Pro GPUs with Polaris While anticipated release of the upcoming Vega GPU is hogging the limelight, AMD has completed the transition of its Radeon Pro workstation GPU line-up to the current Polaris 4th generation GCN architecture, also known as Polaris. The company had already filled out the Radeon Pro mid-range with Polaris earlier … Read more
With its capable, ridiculously small workstation, HP looks to cast a wider net on visual computing professionals
AMD’s hopes ride on this latest graphics chip Timed with the close of the holiday season, with vendors and customers alike getting back to business for the new year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has become a favorite for major announcements of new technology and products. No exception, AMD was on hand to pitch technology that will be critical to … Read more
