Alex Herrera

With more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, and management experience in the semiconductor industry, Alex Herrera is a consultant focusing on high-performance graphics and workstations. Author of frequent articles covering both the business and technology of graphics, he is also responsible for the Workstation Report series, published by Jon Peddie Research.
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Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3: Benchmarking Performance Measures for CAD 21 Jan, 2021 |
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AMD CPUs Check All the Boxes for the Range of CAD Computing Demands 16 Dec, 2020 |
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CAD Tech News (#138) 19 Nov, 2020 | |
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With RDNA2, AMD Takes Its Turn with a New GPU Generation 13 Nov, 2020 |
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NVIDIA Unveils Ampere-Generation RTX A6000 and A40, Affirming Evolving — and Aggressive — Path for its GPUs 15 Oct, 2020 |
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Two New CPUs Will Open More Options for the CAD Workstation Platform 17 Sep, 2020 |
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Workstation CPU Cores and Clocks: An Inconvenient Tradeoff 20 Aug, 2020 |
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Chiplet Architectures Emerge as One Arrow in Industry Quiver of Technologies Extending Compute Performance 16 Jul, 2020 |
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Can 1-to-1 Remote Workstations Provide the Same Performance as Local Machines? 4 Jun, 2020 |
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Boxx Expands into Remote Workstations with Help from Cirrascale 21 May, 2020 |
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