Both a small computer for an accountant and a render station for 6 video cards in the understanding of PC manufacturers can be called the word "Workstation", so if the management has set you the task of choosing a "Workstation", then in order not to spend money twice, be able to distinguish an ordinary office PC from a real workhorse.

The good thing about the AMD EPYC 7000 platform is that a large number of PCI Express lanes are available to you in 1-socket format. This is a serious advantage for assembling a server with several GPUs, because the 1-processor layout allows you to assemble compact machines in the ATX form factor.

Today, Qualcomm announced that they are entering the AI accelerator market with the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 family of chips. Designed from the ground up for the artificial intelligence market, this chip should be released as early as 2020. At the same time, Qualcomm emphasizes that the new chip will be compatible with existing software for artificial intelligence applications.

When Intel Xeon processors of the LGA-3647 series first appeared, many experts joked that this processor socket was so large that it was impossible to make a Mini-iTX board on it. And now ASRock Rack showed the whole world that nothing is impossible for them, and if you need Xeon Scalable on a motherboard for a nettop - please, the company has a motherboard for you

Intel has updated the Broadwell-DE series of embedded processors for Edge applications. First of all, the frequency of each of the cores has increased, support for 4 10GBe network controllers has appeared and the performance of QAT technology has increased.