Alex Herrera

Herrera on Hardware: Keep up to date with CAD-oriented drivers and get the power you need to drive your designs.

The first professional Ampere GPU foreshadows advancements to come for all CAD visualization professionals.

Herrera on Hardware: Should you equip your CAD workstations with AMD processors? This exercise provides some performance data for comparison, plus insights about examining a CPU’s clock rates.

Herrera on Hardware: The company’s Ryzen 5000–generation CPUs solidify its resurgent competitive edge, particularly when it comes mainstream CAD.

AMD may have its best shot in more than a decade to take meaningful share in the market for professional graphics hardware.

Herrera on Hardware: The impressive introduction in gaming-focused products foreshadows the next generation of professional graphics products for CAD.

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.