Alex Herrera

Herrera on Hardware: The retirement of NVIDIA’s Quadro brand is further evidence of the GPU’s changing role and shape.

Herrera on Hardware: Lenovo builds around AMD’s Threadripper PRO processor, while Intel ships the first fruits of Xe graphics and SuperFin technology.

Herrera on Hardware: The inverse relationship between core count and frequency presents a tricky tradeoff to navigate when choosing a CAD workstation CPU.

As the trend described by Moore’s Law comes to its inevitable end, CAD users and other compute-hungry professionals need the industry to find ways to deliver generation-to-generation improvements in performance.

Herrera on Hardware: Are you considering a remote computing solution? Latency likely won’t be a significant problem, but you’ll want to evaluate whether response time and image quality meet your expectations or are noticeable enough to be annoying.

With many employees forced to work from home, remote datacenter workstations make more sense than ever — and the arrival of Boxx Cloud Services couldn’t be more timely.

The annual conference — which was transformed this year from an in-person event to GTC Digital — made it clear that traditional 3D graphics is becoming a smaller piece of the puzzle.

Herrera on Hardware: The basic tenets of the tried-and-true memory hierarchy still apply, but it’s worth knowing how recent disruptors can improve performance — and perhaps shift the traditional balance.

Herrera on Hardware: Three years into the era of AMD’s Zen architecture for central processing units (CPUs), the company has climbed into its best position in over a decade to compete with Intel, equipped with a high-performance workstation-caliber CPU.

Herrera on Hardware: Benchmark relevance will vary depending on what application you use and whether you’re focusing on graphics throughput or whole-system performance.