Alex Herrera

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A deep dive on workstations—mobile and desktops

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Alex Herrera

How the latest machines stack up across market segments.

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Workstation volume sustains record level in Q2’21

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Alex Herrera

Market performance across geographies stabilize. As part of its ongoing research on the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has ...

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Nvidia’s Ampere 2020 signals a new era for Nvidia

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Alex Herrera

The successor to Volta and Turing ushers in a new architecture. Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in 2020 didn’t proceed like ...

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Radeon Pro 7: focusing on double-precision sensitive applications

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Alex Herrera

A top-end Vega-based AIB for the professional segment. With AMD’s Navi GPU beginning to fill out the Radeon Pro line ...

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Benchmarking the Radeon Pro W5700

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Alex Herrera

Performance: relative to its predecessor and the most comparable Nvidia offering. As is our practice when evaluating workstation-class graphics AIBs, ...

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Nvidia’s most accessible Turing-class Quadro: the RTX 4000

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Alex Herrera

Benchmarking and assessing a Turing-class GPU a much different process. At the introduction of its paradigm-shifting Turing generation GPU, Nvidia ...

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The workstation market in Q3’18: Economic conditions and demand drive the market to record levels

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Alex Herrera

Vendors are justifiably more confident to hang their hats on the workstation market than most other PC-related markets. And for good reason, ...

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AMD’s Next Horizon dawns with 7-nm Epyc Rome Zen 2 processor

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Alex Herrera

Alex Herrera takes stock of AMD’s latest hardware introductions and notes the company has an edge on Intel and a ...

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The tale of Turing

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Alex Herrera

A big-picture look at how Nvidia got to Turing, and how the new architecture signals an inflection point in GPU ...

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Boxx bets on Zen to power an AMD comeback in workstation CPUs

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Alex Herrera

Alex Herrera reviews new Zen-based Apexx workstations from Boxx. He says the new machines stay true to Boxx's commitment to quality and customized features. The article takes a look at the market best suited for the new computers.