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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

Researchers at KAUST have stacked six transistors (OxTs and OrTs in an alternating fashion) on top of each other. These stacks consist of 41 layers, fabricated using a 40-step lithography process, each containing 100 devices.

OpenAI and Tachyum announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 Quadrillion Watts of Compute Power without deploying any actual Chip made by Tachyum.

TSMC Revenue by Node as of Q3 2025. We should see N2 emerging by Q1 2026 in this graph.

Apple M5 - 4x Performance Core - 6x Efficiency Core - +15% nT Performance - +45% higher GPU Performance - 153 GB/s Memory Interface - 3 nm Process

Intel just announced Crescent Island. Crescent Island is a new Intel Data Center GPU offering that will arrive in the second half of 2026. Knows features: - air-cooled - Xe3P microarchitecture - 160 GB of LPDDR5X Looks like a competitor to Rubin CPX and token optimized XPUs.

At 2025 OCP Global Summit AMD shows their Helios rack-scale solution. These are liquid-cooled, 72-GPU racks powering AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs (Venice) and do feature integrated UALoE scale-up connectivity.

Interesting project by der8auer: Spray cooling with Novec 7000. Acceptable idle temperatures, nothing more. Just a POC. But, spray cooling was used with the Cray X1 supercomputer. Small holes in the heatspreader sprayed directly onto the small chips, and the gas was returned.

It's official! OpenAI and Broadcom announce strategic collaboration to deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators. OpenAI and Broadcom have signed a term sheet to deploy racks incorporating the AI accelerators and Broadcom networking solutions.

One of the slides that shows the potential of #PantherLake the best. 4P+8E+4LPE cores on par with 4P+4LPE (Lunar Lake) and better than 6P+8E+2LPE (Arrow Lake-H), where the allocation of those LPE cores had it’s hurdles.

Robinson Lake reference design for embedded/robotics #PantherLake solutions. The CPU is rated for an extended temperature range of -40 °C to 105 °C. The memory chips are labeled with 4ZC42 DBFVB from Micron. #IntelTechTour

This is a #Intel18A wafer with #PantherLake compute tiles. I did a quick annotation (see 2nd picture attached).

I had the opportunity to visit Intel's #Fab52 at the Ocotillo campus in Chandler, Arizona. This is where Intel manufactures its chips in #Intel18A. In this report, I attempt to convey the enormous dimensions and challenges involved. #IntelTechTour www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

A switch from #Crestmont to #Darkmont and thus a significant leap in CPU performance, but still platform-compatible and technically impressive with #Intel18A + #FoverosDirect3D. Intel provides further details on #ClearwaterForest, also known as #Xeon6+. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

Based on todays details about #PantherLake and #ClearwaterForest, we took another look at the details of #Intel18A, #PowerVia (including Omni MIM), #RibbonFET, and #Foveros. #IntelTechTour www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

New (revised) E- and P-Cores, a new Xe3 GPU, significantly more efficient NPU 5 and #PantherLake in three chip configurations with a mix and match of #Intel18, #Intel3 and TSMC N6 and N3E — today we take a look at the details of Intel's upcoming CPU gen. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

300 mm GaN-on-Si wafer from Aixtron as presented by imec

According to Prashanth Aprameyan, GM for Intel 18A & Intel 3 at Intel Foundry Services, Intel 18A-P will enter HVM by the end of 2026. This is following what Intels own roadmaps are showing. My question is: Which product(s) will use Intel 18A-P?

With Intel 18A the company will use Omni MIM capacitor on the backside of the BSPDN with a capacitive density of 397 fF/µm², while current designs can go up to 376 fF/µm² (on Intel 4) depending on wether this is multi-plate or single-plate design.

Qualcomm to acquire Arduino – Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI www.qualcomm.com/news/release...

Just visited Intel Fab 42 and Fab 52 on Ocotillo campus in Arizona, where Intel will manufacture Intel 18A for Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest. #IntelTechTour

Did some pixel counting: Based on the known dimension for the LPDDR5X packages, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is about 13.9 × 20.7 mm.

Qualcomm uses the N3 node by TSMC for the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. But it's utilizing TSMCs FinFlex, so primarily N3P and for some parts N3X – for the Prime Cores for example. So Qualcomm gets the trade off between efficiency and performance for their monolithic design.

Wafer based on #imec 300 mm spin qubit platform used by #Diraq.

Together with Corintis, Microsoft is working on a liquid cooling based on microfluidics methods. Microfluidics could get datacenter chips to run at a higher efficiency and makes per package TDPs of 2+ kW even possible. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

MediaTek announced the tape out of its first SoC in N2 by TSMC. The chip is set to be available at the end of 2026. corp.mediatek.tw/news-events/...

According to DigiTimes, due to the high costs incurred by external suppliers and in this context the challenges with EUV, TSMC has decided to manufacture the so called pellicles, an extremely thin, transparent protective film for photomasks by itself. www.digitimes.com.tw/tech/dt/n/sh...

Some lovely details on that fibre attachment!

This is Omega, a quantum chip by PsiQuantum with single photon sources, superconducting single photon detectors, and a next-generation optical switch. I don't know much about quantum computing, but the wafer looks super nice.

That might be the #Rubin based datacenter product that is the closest to a consumer product. A GDDR7 memory interface, video de- and encoders. But that's to much thinking into it ... #RubinCPX

There is now a GPU with 128 GB GDDR7 officially announced by NVIDIA.

By the end of 2026 NVIDIA will release the Rubin CPX – Purpose-built for context performance and efficiency. - 30 PF NVFP4 performance - 128 GB GDDR7 - four NVENC and four NVDEC for video processing www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

Recogni becomes #Tensordyne and give some more details on how it will try to make inference way more efficient. Logarithmic Math is not a now approach, bit #Tensordyne might have solved the problem how to get to linear data again. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

"Qualcomm CEO Says Intel's Chip Production Not Good Enough Yet" via @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For those looking for a entry-level workstation graphics card the Intel Arc Pro B50 is an interesting and attractively priced option. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

I did a review of the G.Skill Trident Z Neo RGB 2x 64 GB (DDR5-6000, CL34-44-44-96). It's the first time for me to get in touch with the new Samsung 32 Gbit M-Die. With 64 GB it's 8 chips on both sides of the PCB. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

I have already seen a Threadripper fall out of the orange frame and then fall into the socket. Always a tense moment ...