September 2017 – To go along with the refresh of the Z series desktop and ZBook mobile workstations, there was a refresh additionally to the Zeries professional displays. The lead on the product launch is the HP Z38c. This is a curved single screen 4K display featuring a 10bit color depth and 3840×1600 resolutions. For…
September 2017 – Continuing their refresh to the latest capabilities, HP announced their new desktop workstations. The new design for the HP Z8, Z6 and Z4 workstations have been updated for enhanced reliability, compute capacity, and industrial design. The visual design of the full size Z8, Z6 and Z4 models are much more aggressive looking…
August 18, 2015 at the Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—The Pericom Semiconductor Corporation announced new families of high-speed support products for use in diverse applications including notebook, smart phone, tablet and servers. The new products address the needs for switching, connectivity, signal-integrity and timing functions for the highly complex multi-protocol interfaces. The signal integrity solutions…
March 17, 2014, at GTC, San Jose, CA—Dan O’Farrell from Dell introduced the Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse virtual workstation. This end-end offering provides a virtual desktop that provides workstation users an alternative to dedicated workstations for graphics-heavy workloads. The virtual workstations use Dell workstation designs from the Precision product line with dedicated GPU pass-through…
March 3, 2015, San Francisco—The Khronos Group released the provisional specification for OpenCL, the open-source language for heterogeneous parallel computing. The intent is to enable a single code tree to execute on CPU, GPU DSP, and other hardware with dynamic system load and work balance across available processors. OpenCL offers two APIs and a kernel…
October 1, 2014, Atmel, Santa Clara, CA—Laurence Barberis from Atmel introduced the latest SAMA5 ARM Cortex-A5-based microcomputer family. This new set of chips adds a floating point unit and other functions to the A5 family to extend the family and offer increased features and performance. Part of the new releases are geared for low power…
June 25, 2013, PCI-SIG Developers’ Forum, Santa Clara, CA—The PCI special interest group is evolving their specifications to include more functions and interface modes. Al Yanes and Ramin Nechati from the PCI-SIG described the new features and specifications for PCI. The main technology is based on PCIe, and with the increasing focus on mobile, created…