May 6, 2008
News
[September 7, 2007]
A choice of Intel's blazing Core 2 Duo or, um, blazinger Core 2 Extreme processors teams with Nvidia discrete graphics to rev up what Dell calls its most powerful portable workstation to date.
[August 28, 2007]
AMD's graphics division (nee ATI) launches five workstation graphics cards ready for the latest Shader Model 4.0 applications -- and willing to free you from the job of tweaking software settings for them. Models range from an entry-level 256MB accelerator to a monster with a 512-bit interface to its 2GB of onboard DDR4.
[July 11, 2007]
Lenovo introduces a 15.4-inch widescreen workstation featuring Intel's newest Centrino Duo platform, a plethora of wireless-connectivity options, and quiet, cool compliance with the EPA's newest Energy Star 4.0 standards.
[June 20, 2007]
Nvidia unveils a massively parallel graphics processing unit that promises to bring high-performance computing to the desktop or data center. Think about 500-plus gigaflops, then think about scaling from that single GPU to multiple deskside or server systems -- not just five- or tenfold performance improvements, Nvidia boasts, but several-hundredfold resources for huge simulation models.
[May 11, 2007]
Taking OpenGL 2.1 applications on the road? It's no problem with three new mobile, programmable graphics processing units from Nvidia, which bring the unified visual computing architecture of Windows Vista's DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 to laptop workstations.
[April 6, 2007]
Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 delivers robust 64-bit computing for both engineering experts and general office workers, while teaming with the OpenOffice.org productivity pack for per-seat prices far below those of Brand M's operating system and office suite. Now Sun has certified the platform for its AMD Opteron-based Ultra workstations.
[April 4, 2007]
You know you want it: Apple gets first dibs on Intel's new 3.0GHz quad-core Xeon 5300 series and turns the top of its Mac Pro workstation line into an octo-core, octo-monitor, triple-terabyte-storage spectacular.
[March 5, 2007]
The dynamic, dynamite DirectX 10/Shader Model 4.0 technology of Nvidia's GeForce 8 Series PC graphics processors has reached the company's Quadro professional and workstation graphics line, with unprecedented vertex and pixel programmability, 384-bit memory interfaces and frame buffers as large as 1.5GB, and support for dual 3,840 by 2,400 digital flat panels.
[February 17, 2007]
Designers, animators, and other graphics-rendering pros need all the memory and processing power they can get. That's why Shuttle has crammed Intel's quad-core, 2.13GHz Xeon X3210 -- with a 1066MHz front-side bus and 8MB of L2 cache -- along with up to 8GB of memory and 2.2TB of hard drive storage into a compact into a compact case.
[November 14, 2006]
The chipmaker beats archrival AMD to the quad-core punch in the server and workstation segment, shipping a quartet of Xeon processors that join the now-officially-launched Core 2 Extreme QX6700 desktop gaming CPU in fitting two Core 2 Duo dies onto one silicon package. The biggest news? They cost no more and draw no more power than their dual-core Xeon predecessors.
