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New Mobile Workstations from MSI Are Powered by Intel 10th Generation CPUs

Features of four new models include a 15 percent performance increase and longer battery life.

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New Version of NVIDIA vGPU Targets Administrator Efficiency

The latest release takes aim at the increase in remote workers thanks to COVID-19.

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The Acer ConceptD 7 Pro: Can Engineers Use a laptop for Creatives?

Our video review of the Acer ConceptD 7 Pro mobile workstation.

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New Intel RealSense D455: Stereo Depth Camera Has Twice the Range

The device is used to monitor patients and to help robots make decisions.

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What’s the Real Reason Apple Ditched Intel?

Skylake CPUs were “abnormally bad,” according to a former Intel engineer.

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And This Month’s Winner for World’s Fastest Computer...Japan!

It’s a knockout. ARM-based supercomputer almost 3 times as fast as IBM’s Summit

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Apple Drops Intel, Announces Custom Silicon

Within two years, new Macs will be running Apple’s custom ARM-based processors.

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New ThinkPad P15 and P17 Promise “Ultra Performance”

Lenovo announces new ThinkPad P Series mobile workstations.

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Recommended Resources

White Paper: Preventative Maintenance – Keeping Your Machines Safe and Production Moving

Teach pendants are a critical part of the factory environment as they act as the human/machine interface for industrial robots. But since teach pendants are handheld, they are under a greater risk of damage due to falls.

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Research Report – All You Need to Know about Hardware for Simulation

This report discusses introductory level HPCs and what you can expect. We also researched getting HPC as a service, which allows users to draw from an almost limitless amount of compute power that is not only affordable by consultants and small firms, but is also as easy to access as signing up for an account.

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Research Report: The New Turing Architecture and RTX Graphics Cards

Turing is the latest graphical processing unit (GPU) architecture from NVIDIA, and it underpins the new RTX graphics cards. RTX is shorthand for real-time ray tracing, which is one of the biggest advantages of the Turing architecture.

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