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Beelink GTi15 Ultra Review A Dual 10GbE Mini PC with a PCIe GPU Dock Option

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In our Beelink GTi15 Ultra review, we see how this dual 10GbE mini PC has so many features including the option for an external PCIe GPU dock

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Ubiquiti USP-PDU-PRO Power Distribution Pro Mini-Review

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Ubiquiti’s USP-PDU-PRO is a high-end, 2U PDU with 16 outlets plus four USB-C ports for power, as well as network capabilities for individual port monitoring and power cycling

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Google’s Ironwood TPU Swings for Reasoning Model Leadership at Hot Chips 2025

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Closing out the machine learning sessions at Hot Chips 2025 is Google, who is at the show to talk about their latest tensor processing unit (TPU), codenamed Ironwood. Revealed by the company a few months ago, Ironwood is the first Google TPU that is explicitly designed for large-scale AI inference (rather than AI training). Paired […]

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AMD Dives Deep on CDNA 4 Architecture and MI350 Accelerator at Hot Chips 2025

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The second big machine learning accelerator talk of the afternoon belongs to AMD. The company’s chip architects are at this year’s show to tell the audience all about the CDNA 4 architecture, which is powering AMD’s new MI350 family of accelerators. Like it’s MI300 predecessor, AMD is using 3D die stacking to build up a […]

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NVIDIA Outlines GB10 SoC Architecture at Hot Chips 2025

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Back from our Hot Chips 2025 ice cream break, NVIDIA is starting off the second session of machine learning presentations. As with yesterday’s graphics presentation, NVIDIA isn’t so much showing off future hardware as much as they are offering a better lay of the land on their latest generation of hardware that is already on […]

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Huawei Presents UB-Mesh Interconnect for Large AI SuperNodes at Hot Chips 2025

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The third and final machine learning presentation before the afternoon break comes from Huawei. Unlike many of the other ML vendors who are here to pitch products, Huawei’s presentation is more focused on fundamental technology. In this case, how to use efficiently use meshes to interconnect the chips within large AI systems. Eyeing so-called SuperNodes […]

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d-Matrix Presents Corsair, An In-Memory Computing Architecture For Inference, at Hot Chips 2025

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The second machine learning presentation of the afternoon comes from d-Matrix. The company specializes in hardware for AI inference, and as of late has been tackling the matter of how to improve inference performance by using in-memory computing. Along those lines, the company is presenting their Corsair in-memory computing chiplet architecture at Hot Chips. Not […]

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Marvell Shows Dense SRAM Custom HBM and CXL with Arm Compute at Hot Chips 2025

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Marvell showed its massively dense SRAM, its custom HBM solution, and how it is adding Arm cores to CXL memory controllers at Hot Chips 2025

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Meta Talks World-Lock Rendering for AR/MR at Hot Chips 2025

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The final graphics-related talk of the day comes from Meta, who has perhaps the most novel presentation on the graphics track. Rather than talking about GPU architectures that have already been shipping to customers for several months, Meta’s ex-Oculus headset division is at the show to talk about using dedicated ICs for accelerating world-locked rendering […]

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and the Age of Neural Rendering at Hot Chips 2025

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The second presentation on today’s graphics track comes from NVIDIA. Like AMD, NVIDIA is mid-cycle on its current generation of graphics products, having launched the first of them back in late 2024. As a result, their Hot Chips presentation is more of a recap, with a focus on what the Blackwell architecture offers for graphics […]

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AMD RDNA 4 GPU Architecture at Hot Chips 2025

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Kicking off this afternoon’s graphics track at Hot Chips 2025 is AMD. The company launched its RDNA 4 architecture and associated Radeon RX 9000 series video cards earlier this year, releasing two GPUs thus far. As AMD is now well into this generation of Radeon GPUs, the company doesn’t necessarily have any grand revelations to […]

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Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest with 288 Cores on Intel 18A at Hot Chips 2025

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At Hot Chips 2025, Intel went into its next-gen 288 core processor constructed on Intel 18A process and using 3D packaging technology

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IBM’s Power11 Processor Architecture at Hot Chips 2025

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Third up on today’s CPU track is IBM. Big Blue is at the conference to talk about its latest generation Power architecture chip, the Power11. IBM starts off by recapping Power. Why it exists, and what IBM’s goals are for the processor and architecture. IBM is very system-focused, rather than focusing on selling just CPUs. […]

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Pezy Computing’s PEZY-SC4s, A MIMD Many-Core Architecture at Hot Chips 2025

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Second on today’s Hot Chip 2025 CPU track is Pezy Computing, the quirky Japanese CPU development firm who specializes in Multiple Instructions Multiple Data (MIMD) CPU designs. MIMD is an old concept in CPU design, but it’s not a CPU design we see too much of in the real world. Most designs are variations on […]

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Condor Computing’s Cuzco, a High-Perf RISC-V Design at Hot Chip 2025

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Hot Chips, the semiconductor industry’s leading conferences on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits is taking place this week. Living up to its name, the show offers a rather deep look at some of the latest and hottest chips in the industry, from smaller vendors specializing in RISC-V all the way up to the big […]

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AMD Takes Aim for Workstation AI Market With Radeon AI Pro R9700

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In what has quickly become a busy week for workstation and server class video cards at this year’s Computex trade show, AMD has become the latest video card vendor to join the fray with the announcement of their flagship Radeon AI PRO R9700 video card. Based on AMD’s newest RDNA 4 GPU architecture, AMD is […]

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AMD Reveals Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Family: Big Zen 5 Chips for HEDT and Workstations

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Headlining this evening’s announcements for AMD is a fresh batch of CPUs for the HEDT and workstation markets. Taking to the stage at Computex 2025, AMD’s Jack Huynh announced that the company’s Threadripper family of CPUs is receiving its long-awaited Zen 5 facelift, upgrading the CPUs to AMD’s latest architecture. The chonky chips, with up […]

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AMD Computex 2025 Live Coverage

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The final major keynote for this year’s Computex trade show comes from AMD. And, with competitor Intel not presenting at this year’s show, AMD is the sole x86 vendor holding a keynote this year. AMD’s theme for this year’s keynote is a grab-bag of gaming, PC, and workstations. Notably, this keynote is not being helmed […]

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Qualcomm Teases New Data Center CPUs and AI Inference Accelerators in the Works

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Closing out their hour-long, AI-focused Computex keynote, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon ended his presentation with a brief teaser of what’s in store for the server side of Qualcomm’s hardware business. The company has repeatedly dabbled in the server market with products such as their Cloud AI 100 inference accelerators. But thus far Qualcomm has not […]

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