Alex Herrera

2 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | Alex Herrera |Álex Herrera

The new AMD-powered mobile offers impressive performance gains for such a small machine, promising benefits for AI development in particular… but it’s not without trade-offs(Source: HP)Having evolved rapidly from a relatively niche market served, today’s mobile workstation market is both broad and dynamic. Where an OEM like HP might have had just one or two models in years past to serve the range of users, today it counts more than seven.

2 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | Alex Herrera |Álex Herrera

HP’s ZBook Ultra G1a is a mold-breaking 14-inch mobile workstation, built around an AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro APU and its powerful integrated Radeon graphics, foregoing a discrete GPU. Benchmarks show its graphics performance rivals previous-generation midrange discrete cards, though it can dip under heavy concurrent CPU and GPU loads due to shared power and memory. Its key advantage is a unified memory architecture, allowing the GPU to access up to 96GB of RAM—ideal for large AI models.

3 weeks ago | jonpeddie.com | Alex Herrera |Álex Herrera

Jon Peddie Research’s first-quarter 2025 Workstation Report is now available. The year 2025 has kicked off with some strong growth numbers for the workstation market. All told, the market grew around 12% (year over year), a level that would ordinarily be deemed quite bullish for a relatively mature industry. But whether Q1’s performance signals strength that is genuine or spurious isn’t so clear-cut.

Mar 13, 2025 | jonpeddie.com | Alex Herrera |Álex Herrera

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the workstation market posted another encouraging Goldilocks quarter—neither too hot nor too cool, but just about right. Year over year, unit shipments grew around 7.7% (and 4.8% sequentially). “If we were to set aside the atypical, pandemic-inflated shipments of mid-2021 to mid-2022, Q4’24’s shipments set a new high-water mark for workstations,” explained Senior Analyst and JPR Workstation Report author Alex Herrera.

Nov 1, 2024 | jonpeddie.com | Alex Herrera

Mobile workstations have become essential for computing professionals, evolving significantly since their early 2000s introduction. The COVID-19 pandemic, along with a shift from deskside to portable setups, fueled their recent growth. HP’s ZBook G11 lineup exemplifies today’s mobile workstation standards, with models like the ZBook Fury, Power, and Studio.