Workstation

In Q3’21, the Workstation Market Blows Past Previous Record Levels

Tiburon, Calif. – December 6, 2021­ – As part of its ongoing research on the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its JPR Workstation Report Market Quarterly for Q3’21. The workstation market’s record levels — set in Q1 and essentially sustained in Q2 — now seem like a distant memory, as the third quarter obliterated both. All told, the … Read more

AMD Radeon Pro W6000X RDNA2 GPUs for Mac Pro

Mac Pro driving three screens. (Source: Apple)   AMD tied two of its new RDNA 2 GPU together with its Infinity Cache and made the Radeon Pro W6000X, a custom AIB series for Apple. AMD says the new AIB product line delivers exceptional performance and incredible visual fidelity to power a wide variety of demanding professional applications and workloads, including … Read more

Intel Q2 2021 results

Intel said second-quarter revenue exceeded April guidance led by continued strength in the Client Computing Group (CCG) and strong recovery in both Intel's Internet of Things Group (IOTG) and the Enterprise portion of its Data Center Group (DCG). The PC and Mobileye businesses achieved record Q2 revenue. In the second quarter, PC platform volumes were up 33% YoY and Mobileye … Read more

Nvidia’s pro-graphics and data center AIBs

At Nvidia’s Graphics Technology Conference (GTS 2021), the company announced eight new Ampere GPU-based AUB for next-generation laptops, desktops, and servers. For desktops, the new Nvidia RTX A5000 and Nvidia RTX A4000 AIBs join the A6000 and feature new RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and CUDA cores for AI, graphics, and real-time rendering. They are up to 2× faster than previous … Read more

Boxx offers Flexx’able work at home workstation

At Nvidia’s GPU technical conference (GTC) Boxx held sessions to show how the performance of a desktop workstation in a rack-mounted, high-density form factor, they call Flexx enables organizations to accelerate workflows onsite or remotely. Boxx featured Nvidia’s new A5000 workstation AIB and used case studies from Solidworks showing how Nvidia’s Omniverse enables borderless and time zone-free collaboration. Covering concepts … Read more

AMD Q3 2020 results

AMD’s third-quarter was up from Q2 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $2.8 billion, up 57% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was 148% quarter-over-quarter and up 225% year-to-year. “Our business accelerated in the third quarter as strong demand for our PC, gaming, and data center products drove record quarterly revenue,” said Dr. Lisa … Read more