All posts by Patrick Kennedy

Touring MikroTik in Latvia to See How they Make Awesome Networking Gear

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We take you on a tour of the MikroTik offices in Riga Latvia and to a contract manufacturer to see how networking gear is built

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Microsoft Etches Complex Microfluidics Channels Directly into Silicon Chips

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Microsoft is etching microfluidic channels directly into silicon in research to cool future generations of AI accelerators

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NVIDIA to Take 5 Billion Stake in Intel and Intel to Make Custom x86 NVIDIA Chips

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In huge news, NVIDIA is looking to take a $5B stake in Intel and have Intel make custom data center CPUs and desktop CPUs integrating RTX

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Looking for Feedback on Next-Gen STH Network Device Testing

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Our new high-end network load tool is now up and running. This is your chance to shape how we review network devices on STH

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The New d-Matrix JetStream 400G Ethernet Card for Data Center Scale AI Inference

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The new d-Matrix Jetstream 400G card is designed to help the company scale out its Corsair AI inference platfrom using lower-cost switching

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Thank You For the Supercomputers Google Predictions for the Next Phase of AI at Hot Chips 2025

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At the first Hot Chips 2025 Keynote, Noam Shazeer co-lead of Google Gemini AI, gave his thoughts on what LLMs need to improve in the future

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Picking Servers CPUs for Databases in 2025 is Still Complex

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Picking CPUs for databases is still a topic of great complexity in 2025 with CPU vendors making different chips catering to database licenses

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MiTAC G8825Z5 AMD Instinct MI325X 8-GPU Server Review

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In our MiTAC G8825Z5 review, we see how this 8-GPU AMD Instinct MI325X server performs and how it was made in a very neat fashion

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Dell Precision 3240 Compact Mini PC with PCIe Card Slot Overview

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We take a look at the Dell Precision 3240 Compact in a second act role of being a homelab node with features like a Xeon CPU and NVIDIA GPU

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NVIDIA Co-Packaged Optics with Silcion Photonics for Switching and Spectrum-XGS Scale-Across

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At Hot Chips 2025, NVIDIA showed its co-packaged optics solutions and its next-generation Spectrum-XGS for scale-across long-distance AI clusters

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Ayar Labs UCIe Optical IO Retimer at Hot Chips 2025

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Ayar Labs has a UCIe optical I/O retimer that it is showing off at Hot Chips 2025. The basic idea is to make a UCIe chiplet that makes it easy to integrate optical I/O into a package, since it is standards-based. The chiplet also provides a lot of off-package bandwidth since it is an 8Tbps […]

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