The Nasdaq Composite fell 4.18% on June 5, its worst single-day drop since April 2025, as a trillion-dollar selloff in semiconductor stocks dragged the Dow and S&P 500 lower and spilled into crypto ma…
Wall Street fell on Tuesday as semiconductor stocks slumped after Samsung's mixed earnings, with the Dow Jones down 0.3%, S&P 500 down 0.3%, and Nasdaq Composite down 0.7%. Investors rotated into defe…
Samsung's record earnings report triggered a sell-off in the US chip sector on Tuesday, as investors worried about overspending on AI infrastructure and lofty expectations. Shares of Intel, Marvell, a…
Repurposed crypto mining hardware, specifically cut-down PlayStation 5 APUs known as BC-250, are being transformed into budget Linux gaming PCs capable of running modern games at 1080p with 60-100+ FP…
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo, a $3,999 desktop AI inference system with 128GB unified memory, launched July 10 at Micro Center, undercutting NVIDIA's DGX Spark by $700. Reviews confirm competitive performance …
A developer explains core hardware components and the boot process from a developer's perspective, covering CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, firmware, bootloaders, and the kernel. The post details how hardware…
AMD has listed a Strix Halo mini PC powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU for $3,999, available starting July 10 through MicroCenter. The dev-kit system features 128 GB of shared memory and is designed…
AMD has brought PyTorch Monarch to its Instinct GPUs with ROCm, enabling single-controller distributed training for large language models. The port addresses reliability challenges at scale by providi…
At the CHIPS NORTH Executive Summit, Canadian AI leaders urged the country to accelerate building sovereign AI infrastructure, including hardware, data centers, and compute access, to convert its rese…
AMD launched the Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform, a $4,000 mini PC with 128GB of unified memory, targeting developers who need to run large local LLMs without cloud costs. The device uses a Ryzen AI …
AMD released the Ryzen AI Halo developer system, a $3,999 mini PC with a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor and 128GB of memory, targeting local AI development. The system lacks the high-end networking of co…
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo mini PC, built on the Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" platform, began shipping this week after pre-orders last month. Phoronix tested the device, which features fully open-source softwa…
AMD launched the Ryzen AI Halo workstation at nearly $4,000, offering 128 GB of unified memory for local AI model training and inference. The system is cheaper than Nvidia's DGX Spark but uses year-ol…
AMD has launched its own Linux distribution, the Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 'Rex', built atop Debian, for its Ryzen AI Halo mini PC. The OS, which includes ROCm preloaded, surprised reviewers expec…
AMD launched the Ryzen AI Halo, a $3,999 mini desktop with 128GB unified memory and a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, as a direct competitor to NVIDIA's DGX Spark. The Halo supports both Windows 11 and L…
Station F, the Paris-based startup hub founded by billionaire Xavier Niel, is launching a second cohort of its F/ai accelerator program in September to help AI startups achieve rapid revenue growth. T…
Nvidia's next AI server rack, Kyber NVL144, has been delayed more than a year to 2028 due to circuit board manufacturing problems, according to analyst firm SemiAnalysis. Asian suppliers lost up to do…
AMD has released the Primus Tuning Agent, a tool that automatically searches for optimal training configurations for large language models by using a projection engine as a fast scoring oracle. In a c…
Open-weight model GLM-5.2 matched Claude Opus at a fraction of the cost, global LLM token spending fell 20% from its May peak, and a GPT-5.5 Codex flaw caused quiet output degradation, signaling a mar…
AMD Quark, a quantization library optimized for AMD Instinct MI350 GPUs, enables MXFP4 quantization for Diffusers and xDiT FLUX.1-dev image generation, achieving up to 1.92× speedup over BF16 eager an…