Company behind most powerful mobile workstation ever vanishes — say goodbye for your dreams of owning a 192-core transportable computer with 3TB of RAM
MediaWorkstation’s wild six-screen a-X2P workstation may sadly be no longer
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The company that created one of the craziestworkstationlaptops we’ve ever seen has disappeared only a few months after dazzling the world with its latest offering.
MediaWorkstation’s a-X2Ppromised a staggering six displays that isn’t quite a laptop or a mobile workstation – but a real powerhouse nonetheless. This model featured twoAMDEPYC Genoa Zen 4 CPUs, each with 96 cores, alongside up to 3TB DDR5 RAM.
The machine also supported up to two full-size GPUs or accelerators, one M.2 NVMe boost SSD, and five storage drives – with all of this powered with a supply unit thought to be close to 2kW, and cooled by six fans.
Multi-screen madness
Although this machine looked the real deal, MediaWorkstation has since gone dark – and its site is no longer available at the time of writing. This likely signals the end of its line of extremely powerful portable workstations.
MediaWorkstation isn’t the only tech company to have dabbled in creating multi-display machines that have disappeared off the face of the planet in recent weeks.
TheAurora 7 concept workstation, built by British developer Expanscape, featured four core 17.3-inch4Kdisplays alongside an additional two seven-inch 1200p monitors, and another seven-inch 1200p touchscreen display to the right of the device’s touchpad.
But that device will sadly never hit the market after the company dissolved in November 2023, according toCompanies House, five years after forming, and two years after debuting its seven-screen proof-of-concept laptop.
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It comes as a Canadian startup – the Portable Monitor – showcased its portable monitor device at CES 2024 that could be connected to your laptop to augment it with an additional four screens.
As a machine, the Aurora 7 concept was no slouch and could easily compete with the best workstations of the time. It was fitted with anIntel Core i9-9900Kprocessor alongside 64GB of DDR4 RAM. It also included anNvidia GeForce GTX 1060, meaning it was certainly suited to heavy-duty workloads.
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Keumars Afifi-Sabet is the Technology Editor for Live Science. He has written for a variety of publications including ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive. He has worked as a technology journalist for more than five years, having previously held the role of features editor with ITPro. In his previous role, he oversaw the commissioning and publishing of long form in areas including AI, cyber security, cloud computing and digital transformation.
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