INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Last week I was hanging out with a bunch of engineers and it was a fun trip that I can''t yet talk about
However, one discussion jumped out at me because it was so orthogonal to how we think of two of the component vendors in the workstation
We typically think of AMD and NVIDIA (disclosure: both AMD and NVIDIA are clients of the author) and that they are likely pounding on and
bad mouthing each other every chance they get.Apparently, that isn''t the always the case, when it comes to cooperation on a workstation
solution they both seem to agree that a blended AMD/NVIDIA solution is best and the engineers at the event seemed to agree that the hottest
workstation you can buy right now has a Threadripper processor and an NVIDIA graphics card
This is anything but a cheap date but given the shortage of engineers and that performance allows fewer engineers to do more work, this
configuration is very at the moment
But the two leading workstation vendors, Dell and HP (disclosure: both Dell and HP are clients of the author) don''t make one of these
providing a huge opportunity for the second tier to move up, or for one of these two to steal a march on the other
It also suggests that the most powerful workstation (depending on load) in Dell likely comes from Alienware.
