All posts by Patrick Kennedy

Not Just for Oreos and Tailers AMD Helios Next-Gen AI Racks Go Double-Wide

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The AMD Helios with the MI450 will scale to 31TB of memory and 1.4PB/s of memory bandwidth per rack. It is so big, it needs bigger racks

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AMD Vulcano 800G NIC Coming As AMD Outlines its UALink and UEC Scale Plans

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The AMD Vulcano is an 800G NIC for the PCIe Gen6 and UEC era coming in 2026 for AMD’s scale-out networking solution

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CXL Paradigm Shift ASUS RS520QA-E13-RS8U 2U 4-Node Server Review

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We check out the ASUS RS520QA-E13-RS8U a 2U 4-node AMD EPYC 9005 server with a twist as each node has 8 additional DIMM slots via CXL

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CXL AI and Liquid Cooled Gigabyte Servers at Computex 2025

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We saw AI servers, CXL servers, liquid cooled servers for both AI and HPC compute, and multi-node servers at GIGABYTE’s Computex 2025 booth

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Broadcom Tomahawk 6 Launched for 1.6TbE Generation

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Today Broadcom is launching its next-generation of switch ASICs with the Broadcom Tomahawk 6 series. This is a new 102.4Tbps switch that can handle up to 64 ports of 1.6TbE. Yes, we are now replacing the “Gigabit” with the “Terabit” Ethernet port era. The two new ASICs, the Broadcom BCM78910 and BCM78914 offer two different […]

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Cornelis CN5000 400Gbps Omni-Path Launched with UltraEthernet Roadmap

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The new Cornelis CN5000 series is a 400Gbps Omni-Path alternative to NVIDIA’s networking, and the company also has a roadmap to UltraEthernet

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Minisforum MS-A2 Review An Almost Perfect Homelab System

Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-ms-a2-review-an-almost-perfect-amd-ryzen-intel-10gbe-homelab-system/

In our Minisforum MS-A2 review, we take a look at the 10GbE, AMD Ryzen system with 16 cores that will be a hit with the homelab community

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This is the NVIDIA MGX PCIe Switch Board with ConnectX-8 for 8x PCIe GPU Servers

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This is the NVIDIA MGX PCIe Switch Board with ConnectX-8 for 8x PCIe GPU servers, marking the most significant architectural shift in a decade in this segment

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Intel Arc Pro B50 and B60 For Lower Cost Pro GPUs and 18A Pather Lake Shown at Computex 2025

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The Intel Arc Pro B50 is a 70W SFF GPU at $299 with 16GB of memory and the B60 is a step up with support for AI inference and virtualization

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Sanmina Buys ZT Systems Manufacturing from AMD

Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/sanmina-buys-zt-systems-manufacturing-from-amd/

Last year, AMD Bought ZT Systems in a Surprise Move. The motivation quickly became apparent as AMD needed to move into rack-scale and data center scale infrastructure, not just individual systems and 8 GPU baseboards. ZT Systems both designed and manufactured these systems for hyper-scalers like Microsoft Azure. Along with that $4.9B deal announcement, AMD also […]

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AmpereOne M Finally Brings the Big 12-Channel Socket to its Arm CPUs

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AmpereOne M is finally bringing a 12-channel DDR5 socket to the general-purpose Arm server market, but the release is filled with questions

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