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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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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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