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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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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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