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AMD Instinct MI455X Deep Dive: CDNA 5 Marks The Next Era of Instinct

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We are taking a deep dive look into AMD’s Instinct MI455X accelerator and its CDNA 5 architecture, the backbone of AMD’s next-gen AI server offerings and their massive Helios rackscale system

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Delta’s GoCool-150 Goes Big To Enable 150kW Liquid-To-Air Cooling for ASRock Rack’s NVIDIA VR NVL72

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How do you cool a giant rack of AI hardware? With an even bigger heat exchanger. Delta’s GoCool-150 is a liquid-to-air CDU that is designed to dissipate 150kW of heat from NVL72 and other high-density liquid cooled racks

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AMD Helios Architecture Deep Dive: The Power of AMD’s Hardware Combined

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The Helios rackscale system is the culmination of AMD’s server hardware, as well as their AI datacenter ambitions. For Advancing AI 2026, the company dove into the architecture of their first rackscale systems, outlining how they have scaled up 72 Instinct MI455X accelerators to act as a single system

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ASUS Showcases NUC 16 Family Powered By Panther Lake

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ASUS was showing off the new NUC 16 family of mini-PCs for this year’s Computex trade show. Powered by Intel’s Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake SoCs, these mini-PCs pack a full system into a 0.7L chassis

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AMD’s Physical AI Plans Come Into Focus as Company Launches Ryzen Embedded AI X100

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At Advancing AI 2026, AMD laid out their plans for a comprehensive product stack for physical AI hardware. From SoCs to modules to dev kits, AMD is eyeing physical AI as their next big growth opportunity

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This Senao SA9832v2 is an Intel Amston Lake-Powered Cloud SASE Gateway

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At Computex 2026 Senao was showing off its latest wired SASE gateway, the SA9832v2, which is powered by Intel’s elusive Atom X7 “Amston Lake” SoC

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AMD Advancing AI 2026 Keynote Live Coverage

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It’s time for AMD’s 2026 Advancing AI conference. Join ServeTheHome for our live blog coverage of the AAI keynote, where AMD will announce their latest and greatest hardware and software technologies

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Diving Deeper on NVIDIA’s Vera CPU: New Architectural Details and SPEC CPU 2026 Benchmarks

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NVIDIA this morning has released a trove of new technical details on Vera, their upcoming server CPU, as well as the Olympus CPU core. The company is also publishing the first SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarks, giving us our best look yet at the performance of the chip

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Intel To Add Support for Gen 2 MRDIMMs and Faster DDR5 RDIMMs to Xeon 6 Platform

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Intel this morning is announcing that parts of the Xeon 6 family are going to be getting mid-generation memory upgrades with support for DDR5-8000 RDIMMs as well as Gen 2 MRDIMMs

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MSI Slyly Shows off an Upcoming DLC AMD EPYC Venice Platform With CD182-S6091-X2 Servers and Racks

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AMD’s EPYC Venice is coming, and OEMs are eager to show off their upcoming wares. At Computex we caught MSI’s CD182-S6091-X2 (DLC), a liquid cooled dual socket 1OU2N server node

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Next Gen Server Memory On Display: DDR5-8000 RDIMMs and MRDIMM Gen2 Hits DDR5-12800

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The next generation of server memory is slated to get even faster. At Computex 2026 Micron was showing off DDR5-8000 RDIMMs, while Samsung had uber-fast 12,800 MT/s second-gen MRDIMMs

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NVIDIA Announces Expanded Jetson Thor Lineup with Mid-Range T3000 and T2000 Modules

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NVIDIA has announced the addition of two new mid-range boards to their Jetson Thor lineup, the T3000 and T2000, which will arrive in Q1’27. The new boards aim to be a cheaper offering for customers feeling pressured by the high cost of memory

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Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Ultra SFF G2 Review A Bit Bigger and a Bit Better

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Today we are taking a look at Lenovo’s more spacious mini-PC workstation, the ThinkStation P3 Ultra SFF Gen 2. With multiple PCIe slots, the P3 Ultra seeks to strike a fine balance between size and expandability

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ASRock Rack Built an Edge Server Based on NVIDIA’s Thor Industrial SoC

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ASRock Rack has developed an unlikely edge server based on NVIDIA’s industrial SoC, Thor. The Blackwell-era chip is being used to power the 2UXGI-THOR, a server aimed at the industrial and medical markets

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AIC Gets Flashy with 32 SSD Bay JBOF Server for Key Value Caching

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In preparation for the Rubin Vera era, AIC was showing off its F2032-01-G6, a 2U JBOF storage system that can house up to 32 E3 SSDs. The box is designed to be paired with BlueField-4 DPUs, allowing it to be used as a key value caching appliance

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IBM Expands z17 and LinuxONE 5 Mainframe Lineups With Single Frame and Rackmount Servers

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IBM is expanding its mainframe lineups with new single-frame and rackmount z17 and LinuxONE 5 offerings for smaller customers. As well, the company is releasing an 18U LinuxONE box for new customers called the LinuxONE Express

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Spotted at Computex 2026: Micron’s First PCIe Gen6 Data Center SSD, the 9650

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Ahead of the launch of PCIe Gen6 CPUs, Micron was at Computex 2026 showing off their first PCIe Gen6 SSD for data centers, the 9650

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Silicon Motion Shows Off Enterprise SM8008 and SM8388 SSD Controllers at Computex 2026

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At Computex 2026, Silicon Motion was showcasing its SM8388 and SM8008 SSD controllers for enterprise drives

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ASRock Rack Had One of the First Arm AGI Servers at Computex 2026

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At Computex 2026 we came across one of the first servers based around Arm’s new AGI server CPU. ASRock Rack had their 1U4E1S-ARM, a 1U single-socket server that will be the backbone of future data center systems

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AMD Pivots From HBM to LPDDR5X For New Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package Chips

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With HBM in short supply, AMD’s next-generation of adaptive SoCs will be switching from HBM to LPDDR5X memory. The Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package chips target the same compact form factor, but with a 15+ year projected lifecycle

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