Intel’s return to boxed workstation processors arrived on February 2, 2026, when the company announced the Xeon 600 series, codenamed Granite Rapids-WS, with retail parts reaching shelves in late March. The launch folded the old Xeon W-2500 and W-3500 lines into a single family of 11 SKUs on the new W890 chipset and LGA4710 socket,
For most of the last decade, the high-core workstation conversation has been largely led by AMD. Threadripper PRO pushed core counts, cache, and PCIe lanes past what Intel’s Xeon-W line could offer; the prior Xeon-W flagship topped out at 60 cores, while AMD kept climbing. Intel’s Xeon 600 series, launched in February of this year,
The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is not a new GPU. AMD introduced it last year as a China-only part, and at Computex 2026, the company gave it a global release. It slots into the upper-mainstream space below the RX 9070, focused on 1440p performance, modern display support, and the hardware behind newer features such as
Computex 2026 has kicked off in Taipei, and as usual, NVIDIA set the tone with a Jensen Huang keynote that ran the length of the company’s roadmap. A good chunk of it was the datacenter GPU goodness we had already seen, with Vera Rubin now in full production and the by-now-familiar messaging about agents reshaping
There are two stories in the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus, and they pull in opposite directions. One is a top-tier mobile workstation: Intel’s 24-core Core Ultra 9 285HX, up to 256GB of CAMM2 memory, three M.2 slots, NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics up to the 5000-series with 24GB of GDDR7, MIL-STD-810H build, and a
Lenovo is expanding its business PC portfolio with new ThinkPad laptops and a ThinkStation desktop workstation aimed at organizations that need a mix of mobility, performance, manageability, and long-term serviceability. The lineup includes ultraportable systems for traveling professionals, scalable laptops for enterprise fleets, and a high-performance workstation designed for creators, engineers, and technical teams running
The DGX Spark platform is familiar territory for us at this point. We’ve reviewed the Dell, ASUS, Acer, and Gigabyte takes on NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell reference design, and the core ingredients are consistent across all of them: 1,000 TOPS of FP4 compute, 128GB of unified LPDDR5x memory, and dual 200GbE networking in a 150mm
AMD is once again pushing the boundaries of the high-performance desktop market with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, which launches at an MSRP of $899. When we reviewed the Ryzen 9 9950X3D in March 2025, it made a compelling case as the first 16-core X3D processor, with thermal and TDP constraints no longer forcing
Dell has introduced a broad refresh of its commercial portfolio, covering notebooks, desktops, monitors, and peripherals, with the update centered on the new Dell Pro family across Premium, Pro 7, Pro 5, and Pro 3 tiers. The announcement covers Intel and AMD notebook options, a new Pro 5 Micro desktop, expanded Pro P monitor offerings
HP introduced a new round of Z workstations and AI systems at HP Imagine 2026, expanding its high-performance computing lineup for engineers, architects, designers, AI developers, and other professional users working with heavier local compute demands. The update covers desktop and mobile workstations, GPU-sharing tools, and new systems intended to support hybrid AI infrastructure across
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