All posts by Patrick Kennedy

Intel Crescent Island 160GB to 480GB LPDDR5X AI GPU at Hot Chips 2026

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We learned more about the new 160GB to 480GB LPDDR5X Intel Crescent Island GPU focused on memory capacity at Hot Chips 2026

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IBM Z and LinuxONE Dual-ISA Processor and AI Acceleration at Hot Chips 2026

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At Hot Chips 2026, IBM showed a crazy new IBM Z CPU that will support IBM Z and Arm instruction sets natively.

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d-Matrix Raptor 3D-DRAM Accelerator for Generative Inference at Hot Chips 2026

Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/d-matrix-raptor-3d-dram-accelerator-for-generative-inference-at-hot-chips-2026/

At Hot Chips 2026, d-Matrix showed off its Raptor 3D-DRAM accelerator for AI breaking free of using HBM for memory by stacking DRAM and logic

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Microchip Switchtec 160-Lane PCIe Gen6 Switch Shown at FMS 2026 with XpressConnect PCIe 6 Retimer

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At FMS 2026, we saw a 160-lane Microchip Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switch, XpressConnect retimer demo, and even an Everpure cameo

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ASRock Rack 4U16X-GNR2 NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU Server Review

Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-4u16x-gnr2-nvidia-hgx-b300-8-gpu-server-intel-zutacore-review/

We review the ASRock Rack 4U16X-GNR2, an 8x NVIDIA HGX B300 server with enormous network bandwidth and two liquid-cooling options

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Normalizing NVIDIA Vera Benchmarks to AMD EPYC Turin A Framework

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We go into a framework for normalizing NVIDIA Vera benchmarks from its latest whitepaper to some of AMD EPYC Turin’s other parts

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