ASUS has officially brought its Ascent GX10 mini PC to India. This is a new AI workstation that is powered by Nvidia’s advanced GB10 superchip, a ridiculous amount of RAM, and more, packed in a compact form factor. So here’s everything you need to know.

ASUS Ascent GX10: What makes it special?

The Taiwanese brand had previously unveiled the ASUS Ascent GX10 mini PC in the global market. Now, this model has just been released in India. ASUS packs the Ascent GX10 with impressive hardware like the Nvidia GB10 SoC, which features 10 Cortex-A925 and 10 Cortex-A725 cores with 1,000 TFLOPS or 1 petaFLOP of AI performance. Nvidia’s superchip is coupled with 128GB of LPDDR5X unified system memory and up to 4TB of SSD storage.

These beefy specs are housed in a tiny body that measures just 5.9 x 5.9 x 2.0 inches in dimensions and weighs just 1.48 kilograms. With the tiny workstation, ASUS is targeting professional users, especially those who work with AI models, developers, AI researchers, and data scientists. So basically, anyone who works with large amounts of data. The brand also states that you can pair two of these mini supercomputers to boost the performance.

Other notable features include WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5, Nvidia DGX OS with Ubuntu Linux, a robust heat dissipation system, and a health selection of ports. The ASUS Ascent GX10 was just announced in the Indian market for an exorbitant price tag of Rs 450,000 (roughly 5,046 US Dollars). It will be available for purchase starting next month. In related news, the company just dropped the new ASUS ProArt P16 as one of the most powerful creator laptops yet.

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Lenovo has just launched the ThinkStation P8 tower workstation, a game-changer for professionals. Packed with AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors and NVIDIA RTX GPUs, it’s set to redefine performance standards.

Building on the success of the P620, the ThinkStation P8 rocks an optimized thermal design in a sleek Aston Martin-inspired chassis. The ThinkStation P8’s enhanced thermal design, a result of Aston Martin collaboration, ensures AMD CPUs and NVIDIA RTX graphics cards can handle it all, from data-intensive workstreams to real-time graphics and AI model development.

Although the exact specs of the processor have not been revealed, it is likely that the ThinkStation P8 will be configurable with up to the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX, a 5 nm processor with 96 Zen 4 cores that can boost to 5.1 GHz, 192 threads and a 350 W default TDP.

From M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSDs with RAID support to HDDs for large capacity storage, up to 2TB of DDR5 memory, and seven PCIe slots, the P8 is built for flexibility and efficiency.

The workstation, slated for availability in Q1 2024, targets professionals in fields like architecture, engineering, media, healthcare, education, and research. You can check out the entire workstation lineup at the company’s website.

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Lenovo has just recently announced that it will be launching new refreshed models of its popular ThinkStation and ThinkPad P series of workstation PCs in the Chinese market. So now, the new PCs will feature the latest Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs.

Lenovo ThinkStation Series

Talking about the ThinkStation models first, the Chinese tech giant has launched three workstations which includes the new ThinkStation P3 Tower, ThinkStation P3 Ultra, and the ThinkStation P3 Tiny. The P3 Tower is the flagship model out of the bunch and is now equipped with 13th Gen Intel Core CPUs along with Nvidia RTX A5500 graphi cards. Furthermore, this model can even be paired with up to a whopping 128GB of DDR5 RAM. Similarly, even the P3 Ultra and P3 Tiny will feature Intel’s 13th Gen chips, which will be paired with an Nvidia T1000 and RTX A550 GPUs respectively.

Lenovo ThinkPad P Series

Furthermore, the brand has also announced refreshes to some of its ThinkPad P series of workstation notebooks as well. The brand is bringing five new laptops, which includes the new ThinkPad P16 Gen 2, ThinkPad P1 Gen 6, Thinpad P16v i Gen 1, and the ThinkPad P14s i and P16s i Gen 2 models. The ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 is the top of the line model in the lineup and is equipped with the 13th Gen Intel Core HX series CPUs and Nvidia’s Quadro RTX 5000 graphics cards with up to 192GB of DDR5 RAM.

Apart from this, the other models also feature these updates specifications which includes Quadro RTX 5000 series or even the latest and greatest RTX 4090 GPU in their new laptops. The ThinkPad P1 Gen 6 even sports a 16 inch OLED touchscreen panels as well. On the other hand, there are even mid range workstation laptops that are powered by Intel 13th Gen H series CPUs and RTX 2000 series graphics cards. Unfortunately, the company has yet to reveal the pricing for all of these PCs, but these are expected to go on sale by the end of this month.

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Over the last year, the PC market has shown a huge increase owing to the pandemic situation across the globe. However, the future looks grim. According to the latest forecast report from IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, PC shipments are expected to drop off in 2022.

As per the report, the worldwide shipments of PCs are expected to rise 14.2%, with 347 million units shipped in 2021. However, this is lower than IDC’s earlier forecast, which suggested 18% growth. IDC suggests that the constraints and logistical challenges are the main reason behind the dip in numbers. The tablet market is also expected to grow slowly at 3.4%. 

“We continue to believe the PC and tablet markets are supply-constrained and that demand is still there,” said Ryan Reith, program vice president with IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Device Tracker. “The lengthening of the supply shortages combined with ongoing logistical issues are presenting the industry with some big challenges.”

By 2025, traditional PCs, including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, are expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.2%. IDC says that “despite short-term supply constraints related to panels and ICs, notebook PCs will remain the main driver of future PC growth.” Meanwhile, tablet shipments are expected to decline by 1.5%.

In November 2019, IDC predicted a total market of 367 million units in 2023. But as per the current predictions, IDC expects over half a billion units of personal computing devices to be shipped in 2023. The market is expected to dip in 2022 and rise again in 2023, but the numbers would be lower than 2021.

The report suggests that consumer spending habits will shift towards travel and leisure instead of spending their money on technology. However, the numbers could still be more than expected if many had not spent the last few months on PCs.

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While Huawei is known for its smartphones, the company also offers products in the PC market outside of laptops. The Chinese tech giant recently launched a new workstation desktop that features its proprietary Kunpeng processor, which was made to rival other Intel Xeon based models.

For those unaware, Huawei has been offering workstation high performance processors for desktops through its Kunpeng 920 series since 2018. These powerhouses were built with productivity in mind and were developed by the company’s subsidiary HiSilicon, who also designed their signature Kirin mobile processors as well.

However, despite being capable, these chips had yet to receive proper support and optimization for different software a professional might require. So, Huawei recently started offering Kunpeng based workstation PCs to developers. Now, the Huawei Qingyun W510 has been launched with the HiSilicon Kunpeng 920-3211K SoC that features 24 cores that run at 2.6GHz, which are based on HiSilicon’s proprietary Armv8.2-compatible Taishan v110 cores.

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Furthermore, the workstation is equipped with AMD‘s Radeon 520 GPU and 8GB of DDR4 RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. Huawei is also bundling the new workstation with a 23.8 inch FHD monitor. Through this offering, the company is targetting the Chinese government, as well as local enterprises, which is the reason why runs the latest Deepin OS and not Microsoft’s Windows. At the moment, it is only available for developers, but the company will soon make the push to the commercial market.

Notably, the Kunpeng 920 series chip was originally meant for servers and supported an octa-channel DDR4-2933 memory, two 100GbE controllers, 40 PCIe 4.0 lanes with CCIX support, 16 SAS 3.0 ports, two SATA 3.0 ports, and four USB 3.0 connectors. Although, this particular variant was designed as a workstation, so had its 32 cores cut down, to offer a similar performance to an Intel Core i9-9900K. Unfortunately, these Kunpeng chips were manufactured by TSMC (on its 7nm process), so it remains to be seen how the company will source these chips after recent US sanctions.

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As the biggest electronics show -IFA 2019- is going to open its gates to the public tomorrow, big brands are holding events to announce their upcoming events that visitors will have the chance to see during the show. Asus made a big impression with its ProArt Series that, besides the desktop and monitor, includes 3 laptops.

Asus ProArt Station D940MX

Taking advantage of the evolution in hardware power that comes in a smaller package, Asus ProArt Station D940MX is a workstation-grade desktop that sports a just 8-liter chassis which makes it one of the smallest out there. Asus chose to go with Intel’s latest CPUs so it is powered by Intel’s 9th Gen CPUs and can be equipped with up to 64GB of DDR4 RAM. As for the GPU, two options are available: Either the Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 or RTX 2080 Ti. Of course, a pro-workstation must come with a fast storage option so the D940MX comes with a 512GB PCIe SSD and an 1TB hard drive.

Connectivity is taken care of the dual Thunderbolt 3 ports on the front panel of the stylish chassis that features an LED indicator at the bottom of the chassis. As far as cooling is concerned, the system uses a 2D vapor chamber and heat pipes for controlling the temperatures while the 4 fans help dissipate heat quickly. Also, noise shouldn’t be a problem since Asus claims it generates up to 37dB of noise at full load. Lastly, it comes with MIL-STD 810G certification.

Asus ProArt Display PA32UCG

At this year’s WWDC Apple announced its new ProDisplay addressed at professionals and the new ProArt Display from Asus is the attempt to compete in this market segment. The new PA32UCG monitor claims to be the world’s 1st HDR 1600 display with a 120Hz refresh rate. The resolution offered is 4K and the mini LED backlight is supposedly capable of offering 1000nits of sustained brightness and 1600nits of peak brightness as well as a contrast ratio of 1.000.000:1.

In addition, it supports HDR 10, HLG, and Dolby Vision with the panel using Quantum Dot technology and offers DCI-P3, Adobe RGB, sRGB, Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 color spaces and 10-bit color depth. There is no need for calibration as it comes pre-calibrated from the factory and, according to Asus, it has a Delta-E rating of less than 1.0. Refresh rate, on the other hand, can vary from 48Hz to 120Hz which usually benefits game development workflows. Finally, it comes with plenty of connectivity options as there are 2x Thunderbolt 3 ports, 1x DisplayPort, 3x HDMI ports, and a built-in USB hub.

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