- Corsair presents a new Pro line, aimed at artificial intelligence companies
- A variety of configurations will be offered, but things will get expensive quickly
- Entry-level varieties can be upgraded to Nvidia GB300-based servers
Corsair is stepping up its enterprise hardware game, signaling its goal to capture a slice of the lucrative AI servers and workstations market by launching its new ‘Pro’ line to gain share in a growing ‘localized AI’ industry.
The company aims to consolidate the business by offering a range of configurations tailored to user needs, along with testing, thermal tuning and a combination of workstations and servers.
With its Nvidia GB300-based servers costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, Corsair also offers entry-level workstation options starting with a pre-configured base version under $5,000.
A broader network than most of the competition.
Things can get expensive quite easily; however, its high-end workstation offerings, the Flexprime V80T/R80T, offer users up to a 96-core AMD Threadripper CPU, up to 512GB of RAM, and Nvidia’s Blackwell-based RTX Pro 6000 series GPU.
Users can also get a desktop form factor GB300 configuration thanks to the Flexprime V80B, which offers “775 GB of coherent shared memory, combining 279 GB of HBM3e GPU memory and 496 GB of LPDDR5X system memory via NVLink.”
Corsair’s strengths lie in being a respected and experienced hardware builder that produces a wide range of cooling solutions, power supplies and consumer PC cases, while also having an established business-to-business segment.
Having a well-designed configurator from the start, along with options for rack-mounted and desktop workstation configurations, demonstrates this and also offers users validated, pre-installed software stacks to help them get up and running.
A competitive, but very lucrative market
“We introduced Corsair Pro to address a real shift in the market,” said Matthew Hsu, senior vice president and general manager of components and systems at Corsair.
“AI teams need infrastructure that matches the way they work, whether you start with a local workstation or go straight to the data center. With Corsair Pro, we offer both.”
Corsair is not the only player in a market that has become increasingly crowded and complex over time, thanks to both an abundance of options and the overwhelming need for computing power, which directly influences the demand and supply of even consumer PC hardware.
While most of its direct competition is focused on enterprises, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Supermicro, for example, the latter’s legal troubles of late and relentless demand for AI servers mean that Corsair is entering a market where demand won’t be an issue, as long as it can meet the needs of its customers.
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