The overall CG market grows to $147 billion by 2021
Industry increased to 2% CAGR growth for next few years
New PC, and maybe TV forecast
Making forecasts is always complicated and never a sure thing; and, to get a forecast close to reality, it’s necessary to constantly tweak factors and adjust assumptions. US President Trump has precipitated quite a bit of tweaking and adjusting. As a result, we expect to see the Trump trade-war with China drive up costs and therefore the price-elasticity curve of … Read more
HP announces four more for the desktop and floor and calls it Gen four
HP has been expanding its workstation line using both professional 8th generation E2100 Xeon CPUs and 8th generation Core processors, equipped with either AMD Radeon Pro AIBs, Nvidia Quadro AIBs, or Intel HD graphics for the budget-minded. HP has established the platform for factor, and then broadened each one with a wide range of option in processor type, GPUs, and … Read more
Everyone to lose some sales to trade war
Tesla, the canary in the mine?
New PC, and maybe TV forecast
Just as the PC industry was showing signs of improving
Velocity Micro debuts dual-socket AMD EPYC 64-core workstation
Looking for maximum performance for multi-threaded workloads in a desk-side machine?
Velocity Micro debuts a monster dual-socket AMD EPYC 64-core workstation
For the first time in a decade, AMD’s CPU portfolio is positioned to not only serve one or two segments of the workstation market, but its entire breadth. Based on its Zen CPU architecture the company has rolled out four brands to power virtually any type of workstation model a professional customer may be interested in — from the single … Read more
SPECviewperf 13 benchmark for measuring graphics performance
The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization (SPECgpc) subcommittee recently released SPECviewperf 13, a major revision of its software for measuring the graphics performance of workstations running professional applications. SPECviewperf 13 includes new volume visualization viewsets for energy (oil and gas) and medical applications, a redesigned GUI, improved scoring and reporting methods, support for 4K-resolution displays, and updated viewsets for Maya and … Read more
HP establishes a new category—detachable workstations
Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators
HP establishes a new category—detachable workstations
Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators When HP announced the new ZBook x2 series back in October 2017 they were not just introducing a new workstation but a new category—the detachable workstation. The ZBook x2 is a culmination of hundreds of hours of research by HP. HP talked to graphic designers, artists, photographers and Creative Cloud Users and … Read more
GTC ’18: Pursuing and Exploiting the Intersection of Computer Graphics and AI
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
JPR reports another quarterly workstation record in Q4’17
Units up 3.6% from last quarter, 5.4% from last year