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Whether you knew you needed it or not, locally-hosted AI is the next big thing in PCs, and AMD is at the forefront of this movement. The company was first to market with consumer processors sporting AI-accelerating Neural Processing Units (NPUs), and it’s now on its third generation of processors for “AI PCs.” That’s the justification for the new model naming convention, by the way. These upcoming Ryzen mobile processors are the third generation of NPU-equipped chips from AMD. The first were the Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” chips, and the second were the Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” processors that quickly followed. … Read more

Boasting a powerful AMD Ryzen 8940H CPU, and an AMD RX 7600M XT discrete graphics card, the GEEKOM APro8 Max is poised to set new standards in performance and visual capabilities. Renowned as the Green Mini PC global leader, GEEKOM is debuting at CES 2024, ready to showcase its latest innovations. With two decades of industry expertise, GEEKOM has consistently delivered high-quality, environmentally friendly Mini PCs, establishing itself as the go-to brand for reliable computing solutions. A Mini PC is a  compact, mid-range, and budget-friendly computer device. It typically includes all the basic components of a computer, such as a processor, memory, … Read more

Introduction The GPU memory hierarchy is increasingly becoming an area of interest for deep learning researchers and practitioners alike. By building an intuition around memory hierarchy, developers can minimize memory access latency, maximize memory bandwidth, and reduce power consumption leading to shorter processing times, accelerated data transfer, and cost-effective compute usage. A thorough understanding of memory architecture will enable developers to achieve peak GPU capabilities at scale. CUDA Refresher CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform developed by NVIDIA for configuring GPUs. The execution of a CUDA program begins when the host code (CPU serial code) calls … Read more

Open-source datasets have significantly democratized access to high-quality data, lowering the barriers of entry for developers and researchers to train cutting-edge generative AI models. By providing free access to diverse, high-quality, and well-curated datasets, open-source datasets enable the open-source community to train models at or close to the frontier, facilitating the rapid advancement of AI. Zyphra makes AI systems more accessible, exploring the frontiers of performance through cutting-edge architectures, and advancing the study and understanding of powerful models.  To achieve its vision, the Zyphra team has been collaborating closely with the NVIDIA NeMo Curator team to create Zyda-2, an open, … Read more

IFA in Berlin hasn’t officially started yet, but so much news has come out of the pre-show already that it’s like Geek Christmas. Let’s keep the good times rolling with Lenovo, which has taken all the new that Intel announced this week and turned it into some very sleek portable PCs. All of these new models are freshly announced today at the company’s own Innovation World event inside the show.  Of course, we’re at IFA, and so we’ve been able to take a peek at these notebooks for ourselves at a pre-announcement event. Before we get too deep into what’s … Read more

Samsung has already released plenty of hardware in 2024, but it’s not done yet. The Korean technology heavyweight has revealed two new tablets, a phone and watch updates today. Samsung’s tablet lineup has expanded with the new Galaxy Tab S10+ or Tab S10 Ultra, and budget phone buyers will be able to pick up a Galaxy S24 FE. There’s also a new version of the Galaxy Watch FE with LTE. All these devices are chock-full of Galaxy AI, but there’s not a Snapdragon to be seen. Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+ or Tab S10 Ultra: AI-First Tablets Samsung’s annual premium tablet … Read more

High Point announced a new up to 192TB true Gen5 x16 NVMe storage performance solution tested with the popular ASUS PRO WS WRX90E Sage SE motherboard. Last April HighPoint announced the industry’s first Gen5 NVMe AIC to deliver 56GB/s transfer speed & 64TB of storage for Intel & AMD desktop platforms, with HighPoint’s Rocket 1608A. For those disappointed by the lackluster performance of standard PCIe Gen5 NVMe add-in cards (AICs) the company promised a solution: its Rocket 1608A NVMe Switch AIC, enabling users to fully exploit x16 lanes of PCIe Gen5 bandwidth provided by Intel 600/ 700 and AMD X670E-based … Read more

Available starting July, the new top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 9950X delivers the fastest consumer desktop performance in the world, according to AMD. During Computex 2024, AMD announced what the company says is “a groundbreaking series of next-generation architecture and products aimed at ushering in a new era of AI experiences.” AMD is introducing new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors with, again according to the company, “the world’s most powerful Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for next-gen AI PCs that pave the way for a future full of AI-infused computing directly on your laptop.” AMD is also introducing next-gen AMD Ryzen 9000 … Read more