Something to play around with in the coming days.

These are tools, that should not really exist, but for certain reasons, in some cases there is at least a desire to use them. We had a look at the Aqua Computer Ampinel and Thermal Grizzly WireView Pro II – do show the features and limitations: www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

So we now have the Compute Tile (Intel 18A, first wafer) and Base Tile (Intel 3, second wafer), but we are still missing the I/O Tile (Intel 7) for Clearwater Forest.

#Ampinel by #AquaComputer working hard to balance a faulty 12V-2x6 cable at 600 watts. You can see how the MOSFETs of the balancing electronics are increasing the electrical resistance to regulate inequalities to a certain degree.

Intel just released some new wafer shots of Xeon 6+ aka Clearwater Forest with a different esthetic compared to what we have seen before. Thats presumably because more metal layers are present to this one?

AMD PR gave the answer a little later. There are also non-PRO SKUs.

Ryzen AI PRO 400 is not only limited to the PRO segment with regard to the target group, but also in terms of the number of CPU cores and CUs. But there are still renderings without the "PRO" naming floating around with this announcement. So there is still hope for a 8000G successor.

Like Samsung with Fab P5, SK Hynix is also planing a three story cleanroom structural framing that fits up to six cleanrooms in one building of the Yongin semiconductor cluster. Opening of the first cleanroom is expected to be moved up from May to February 2027. news.skhynix.com/new-facility...

It's a crazy story, even if it's limited to the german market. For ten days now, Acer and ASUS are not allowed to show and sell notebooks and complete systems (NUC) on their website. asus.de is no back online, but every reference to these products were removed.

Something special arrived today. @msigaming.bsky.social GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z and finally we to see something, that should have been there from the beginning: Two 12V-2x6 connectors. 0031 / 1,300 www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

A community member of Hardwarelxx developed a mod for the black ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 to flash it with the Matrix VBIOS. Great work and nice to these kind of enthusiasm. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

Review drop: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Coming from the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, this is obviously not a sensible upgrade path, but even if it were, the higher power consumption is disproportionate to the additional performance. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

Microsoft Maia 200 is deployed for Azure - 3 nm TSMC - 140 billion transistors - 750 W TDP - 216 GB HBM3e at 7 TB/s - 272 MB SRAM - 10 PFLOPS FP4 - 5 PLOPS FP8

Retesting some CPUs for a reason …

Intel Core Ultra X9 388H C2C Latency You can easily distinguish between the P, E and LPE core clusters – although the LPE cores are now on the same compute tile. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

No die shot today, but I did brick build an ASDS with a landed Falcon 9 booster today. Would make a nice background addition to your filming set @djsnm.bsky.social.

The recurring historical chart showing TSMC's revenue by technology.

For its announcement at CES, AMD provided a rendering of a Ryzen 9000X3D with two CCDs, each with 3D V-Cache, as marketing material. The same rendering had already been used for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Nevertheless, some interpreted this as a hint at the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.

Since there appears to be a demand for DDR3 in certain markets, I have opened my old treasure chest. Any offers?

Those small silicon slices that, are visible left and right from the two IODs of Venice, must serve a purpose of signal integrity, right?

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z - OC BIOS: 800 W - Extreme BIOS: 1,000 W - 8" Display - 40 phase power stages - full copper, full cover water block www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

der8auer shows the inner guts (PCB and so on) of NVIDIA’s secret TITAN ADA prototype. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Iy...

An AI boom makes Boom Supersonic building #Superpower gas turbines, which could provide the company with a solid economic basis for the development of the aircraft. But I also want to question the installation and supply of gigantic data centers in this form.

DNP achieves 10 nm line-pattern resolution on nanoimprint lithography (NIL) template. According to DNP NIL can replace a portion of the EUV process. The newest template uses Self-Aligned Double Patterning (SADP), which doubles pattern density. www.global.dnp/news/detail/...

Nowadays, they are collector's items.

This is really a bad sign for consumers and might lead to even higher prices in the near future – even though Micron will still supply the OEM market. AI is sucking up everything by the look of things. investors.micron.com/news-release...

.@awscloud Trainium3 - 3 nm - 144 GB HBM3E - 4.9 TB/s Trn3 UltraServers - up to 144 Trainium3 - 20.7 TB HBM3E - 706 TB/s - NeuronSwitch-v1 - an all-to-all fabric

The solvents in some thermal pads seem to dissolve the printing on the GDDR7 memory chips. For a moment, I thought the chips themselves were sticking to them.

GUC on Integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR) integrated in TSMCs CoWoS-L interposer GUCs IVR Spec: - Dual-phase IVR per xPU core or a cluster - Input voltage: 1.8V - Programmable output voltage: 0.5V-1.0V - Efficiency: 85% - Power density: 3W/mm2 - Can use MIMs and DTCs

32 GB DDR5-6000 CL30 just 55,998.99 Euros. It could be a bargain at some point.

TSMC on HBM4 and C-HBM4E HBM4: - N12 base die - 0.8 V Vdd C-HBM4E: - N3P base die - 0.75 V Vdd - memory controller inside base die www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

TSMC Advanced Logic Technology Roadmap from OIP Forum Europe – no surprises here. N2P starts in H1 2026. A16 with SPR in H2 2026. Continuous speed and power scaling, but power/speed shows some slowdown, doesn't it? www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

Things are heating up: TSMC formally sues ex-SVP over alleged transfer of secrets to Intel www.digitimes.com/news/a202511...

I like that kind of stuff. Thats a CFD of the upcoming Artemis II mission that was run on the Cabeus supercomputer. NASA will add two strakes to the core stage of SLS, that will smooth vibrations induced by airflow during ascent - all simulated! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJqk...

FP64 is not dead. Do you hear me NVIDIA? Emulated FP64? Ozaki scheme? Please discuss!

Microsoft Cobalt 200 - TSMC 3 nm - two chiplets with custom HB interconnect - 132 cores (Armv9.2), 66 per chiplet - 3 MB private L2$ - 192 MB L3$ - 12 memory channels - per core DVFS www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

Our server needs an upgrade.

The DDR5 market goes crazy right now. On the German market, memory kits are sometimes twice as expensive as they were when they were launched a few months ago (or not available at all). This has also led to some memory manufacturers deciding not to launch new series at all.

IBM Quantum Loon and Quantum Nighthawk that are being fabricated at NY CREATES' Albany NanoTech Complex on the 300 mm wafer line.

"Tachyum Unveils 2nm Prodigy with 21x Higher AI Rack Performance than the Nvidia Rubin Ultra" - 1,024 64-bit cores - up to 6 GHz - 1 GB L2+L3$ - 24x DDR5-17600 - 48 TB per socket - 128 lanes of PCIe 7.0 - 1,600 W TDP But surely ...

A good addition to the lineup? AMD did today release the Ryzen 5 7500X3D, which is a very efficient six core CPU, but overpriced compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. We are also not sure whether six cores will still be future-proof in 2025. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

My piece on the Financial Analyst Day by AMD yesterday covering the Zen, Epyc and Instinct roadmaps plus near future product releases and details on them. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

Needed to disassemble a GeForce RTX 5090 for a reason. The reason is stupid 🤪

My colleague visited on of the worldwide five pop-up stores by Intel that are or will be located in Munich, Paris, London, New York and Soul. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

There is a company making billions per quarter, but doing an increasingly bad job in terms of PR. They are giving a lot of infos, also the (in my opinion) important ones, but are holding back on basic stuff like photos of these announcements or are not providing them willingly.

This is #Discovery, the next-gen supercomputer run by ORNL and build by HPE. Discovery will use AMD Instinct MI430X accelerators and Epyc "Venice" CPUs. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

Single die and dual die implementation of the Maverick-2 by @nextsilicon.com. Single die package is used with the PCIe card while die dual die package sits on the OAM module.

Die shot from @nextsilicon.com. But this can't be the Maverick-2, because the aspect ratios look a bit strange, or rather, the HBM PHYs are positioned on the long side here. Or am I wrong? It's been a long week, so apologies in advance!

I‘m kind of shocked that people within the business thought that TSMC manufacturing wafer with Blackwell GPUs in Arizona are giving NVIDIA the ability to do all the silicon related manufacturing independent from Taiwan 🇹🇼

The two Broadcom #Tomahawk 6 102.4T switch chip in two package variants: Tomahawk 6 112G SerDes (bigger package) Tomahawk 6 224G SerDes (smaller package) Source: @servethehome.com.web.brid.gy