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AMD Intros Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGAs

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For this year’s Integrated Systems Europe trade show, AMD is unveiling an upgraded lineup of its Kintex mid-range FPGAs. Dubbed the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 family, this latest iteration of the Kintex family is designed to modernize the FPGAs, bringing support for newer and faster memory, I/O, and cryptography technologies. As with the existing (Gen […]

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Intel Announces Xeon 600 Series This is Granite Rapids for Workstations

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Intel this afternoon is taking the wraps off of the Xeon 600 series, the company’s upcoming workstation platform. Based on Intel’s Granite Ridge CPUs, the release of the Xeon 600 series will see Intel’s latest server technology finally cascade down into workstation parts, replacing the current Xeon W-2500/W-3500 (Sapphire/Emerald Rapids) platforms that have been the […]

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Lenovo ThinkStation PX Workstation Review Intel Xeon for Large Scale Workloads

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In our Lenovo ThinkStation PX workstaiton review, we see how this Intel Xeon (dual capable) workstation performs and how it can be expanded

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Seagate Shipping 32TB HAMR Hard Drives for Server, NAS, & Surveillance Markets

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Seagate has announced this week that it has begun shipping 32TB versions of its high-capacity, high-end hard drives. The second wave of hard drives based on Seagate’s heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, the 32TB drives mark the first capacity bump for Seagate’s top-capacity drives since Seagate brought HAMR-based drives to the retail market last year. […]

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SiFive To Adopt NVLInk Fusion For Future Data Center RISC-V CPU Designs

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For a while now, NVIDIA has been working to turn its NVLink high speed interconnect technology into more than just a bus used by NVIDIA, aiming to fashion an entire ecosystem around it. Those efforts kicked into high gear last year with the announcement of NVLInk Fusion, a program to allow third parties to connect […]

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Minisforum MS-S1 Max Review – The Best Ryzen AI Max Mini-PC Yet

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The Minisforum MS-S1 Max is the best AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 system we have tested. Here is what sets this AMD Strix Halo 128GB AI mini PC apart

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Intel Launches Core Ultra Series 3 Mobile Processors – Panther Lake Roars to Life

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For the PC hardware space, the marquee announcement coming out of CES 2026 this year is without a doubt the launch of Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 of chips. Going by the codename of Panther Lake, the latest of Intel’s lakes marks two very important milestones for the company. Besides being the launch of a […]

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AMD’s EPYC Venice, Instinct MI455X, & Helios Hardware On Display for First Time at CES 2026

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Alongside AMD’s numerous client-focused hardware announcements during their CES 2026 keynote, the company also devoted a bit of attention to their data center/server products. Though the company is essentially mid-cycle on its major data center products right now – and thus is not launching anything in the immediate timeframe – AMD still opted to use […]

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AMD Teases Ryzen AI Halo, a ROCm Ecosystem AI Development Mini-PC

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Among a spate of AMD announcements during the company’s CES 2026 opening keynote, CEO Dr. Lisa Su briefly teased a forthcoming AMD-branded AI development box, dubbed the Ryzen AI Halo. Seemingly taking a page from similar AI development boxes that have popped up over the last year – both those built using AMD’s hardware and […]

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AMD Announces Zen 5-based Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Family of Chips

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Alongside AMD’s slew of consumer-related product announcements with desktop and mobile Ryzen processors, the company also took a moment of its time during its CES 2026 presentation to address the embedded market. The tangentially-related cousin to the consumer market, AMD’s embedded lineup of processors are aimed at the automotive and industrial markets, as well as […]

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AMD Reveals New Ryzen AI 400 Series, Ryzen AI Max+, and Ryzen 7 9850X3D Chips At CES 2026

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Kicking off AMD’s slate of consumer announcements for this year’s CES trade show, the company brought to the shows several new chip SKUs for the consumer market. Altogether the company is launching two new Ryzen AI Max+ processors for AI developers, a new desktop Ryzen 9000X3D chip for gamers, and for the mobile market a […]

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AMD CES 2026 Keynote Live Coverage

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We’re down to our third and final chipmaker keynote of the day. Closing out a busy day for press conferences is AMD, who this year gets the honor of holding CES’s official opening keynote. The subject of AMD’s keynote, like so many others this year, will be a broad focus on AI, with CEO Dr. […]

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Intel CES 2026 Keynote Live Coverage

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After a brief break following NVIDIA’s enterprise-focused keynote, we’re back for our second chipmaker keynote of the day: Intel. Unlike NVIDIA’s presentation, Intel’s presentation promises to be far more on-brand for CES, with a focus on consumer electronics via their Core Ultra Series 3 processors – better known as Panther Lake. Intel CES 2026 Keynote […]

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NVIDIA Launches Next-Generation Rubin AI Compute Platform at CES 2026

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CES may still informally be the Consumer Electronics Show. But that does not mean everyone got the memo – or at least, cares to pay attention to it. Case in point is NVIDIA, who in the first major chipmaker press conference of the day opted for nothing less than to announce the launch of Rubin, […]

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NVIDIA CES 2026 Keynote Live Coverage

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CES 2026 is here! Kicking things off for the major chipmakers today is NVIDIA, who is at the show to talk about all things AI – a hot topic across the entire industry at the moment. NVIDIA CES 2026 Keynote Live Coverage Preview As with most of NVIDIA’s major presentations, company CEO (and leather jacket […]

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ASUS Ascent GX10 Review A New NVIDIA GB10 Solution

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Asus has released their NVIDIA GB10-based mini-PC, the Ascent GX10. Based on NVIDIA’s powerful Spark platform, the GX10 offers a large amount of high-end AI hardware in a tiny box

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Lenovo ThinkCentre neo 50q Tiny QC Review a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Based 1L PC

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Over the years we have looked at a lot of mini-PCs here at ServeTheHome. And while they have come in a variety of sizes – with some that are quite big while others truly live up to the title mini – it is rare that a mini-PC comes across our labs that breaks new ground. […]

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