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Interesting move by AMD:
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-to-acquire-taalas-for-model-specific-ai-inference-chips/

Basically yet another iteration of the "if software is too slow, make it hardware" continuum. This time a AMD acquisition turns LLMs into single-model-chips.

Curious to see if and how this will play out to commercial usability and on what type of model.

Also:

• Might we even see coprocessor boards with exchangeable model chips?
• What will the energy consumptions of those look like compared to the full generals purpose inference runner setups?

#amd #hardware #servethehome #llm #customsilicon #ai #asic #innovation #mergersandacquisitions

ServeTheHome: This NUC does not Suck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dXpAuyZ9A

tl;dw Panther Lake SoC is a decent CPU with a very good GPU and NPU. with 18A, power consumption is good. plus: 2x DDR5 SODIMM, 2x m.2, 2x 2.5GbE.

#NUC #miniPC #ASRock #ServeTheHome

@bjoern @homelab Lenovo ThinkCentre Mini? I quite like them and they can usually be found quite cheaply on eBay (eg, £50-60 for a 700 with an i5 6500T/8GiB/256GB SSD).

FYI - https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/

#homelab #servethehome #usff #thinkcentre

Patrick from #ServeTheHome with a new TinyMiniMicro video on Lenovo's new generation 2 ThinkStation P3 Tiny ... there's a lot crammed into a tiny 1-liter package!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-xVenrTcB8

#miniPC #1LPC #HomeLab #CouchLab #TinyMiniMicro #ThinkStation

Patrick from ServeTheHome with an update on some developments at the low end of the 10-gigabit Ethernet ecosystem:

* a new low(er) power Realtek chip which consumes 2-3 watts and only requires PCIe gen4 x1

* a couple small fanless #10GbE switches for $300 or less

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3CTh1iqrGM

#10Gig #HomeLab #SelfHosting #ServeTheHome

Arm Comes to Project #TinyMiniMicro: Lenovo neo 50q Tiny QC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yenAVRvctdQ

tl;dw: last-gen Qualcomm CPU, soldered memory, poor Linux support

#ServeTheHome #ARM #miniPC #1LPC

Patrick from #ServeTheHome tours the #Mikrotik HQ and contract manufacturing facility in Latvia, EU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwQHRtrmmK8

#ServeTheHome takes a look at the first 1-liter PC to (unofficially) support 128GB of RAM, the Lenovo M75q Tiny Gen5.

reviewed unit has an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 8700GE processor, 35 watt TDP.

overall a very promising Proxmox box, only stumbling blocks are that it still ships with 1Gbps ethernet, and SATA is no longer supported.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCvyUyk8jmk #1LPC #miniPC

Apparently the #servethehome guy is a big baby and deletes all the Youtube comments that mention #xAI Memphis smog problem. What a bootlicker.

done reading #ServeTheHome
they dig into WAY too much highend enterprise shit, just do not give a fuck anymore.

I wish they did more SOHO / homelab / small business level content again. Something ACTUALLY interesting.

If anyone knows of a tech site that covers gear/releases/reviews from companies like MikroTik/Ubiquiti/similar-tier stuff, I'd love to know.

Not to mention they fucked over RSS readers by shoving the entire article into just a link now. And their captcha form is broken. done.

@hohokam I think its generally accepted now that the time of the pi is over as its price for the 5 has increased to such a point there are equally low power x86 systems available in the similar ballpark price wise.
Look into the #tinyminimicro series from #servethehome and intel n100 small form factor pcs.

A new #ServeTheHome review just dropped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU9z2NP2OCI

CRS510-8XS-2XQ-IN

Got Burned by #Broadcom killing #ESXi for #Homelab?

It looks like #ServeTheHome is going to do dives on alternatives!

How to Start Stop and List #Proxmox VE #VirtualMachines via the CLI https://www.servethehome.com/how-to-start-stop-and-list-proxmox-ve-virtual-machines-via-the-cli/

Welcome to the ProxMox fold everyone

@jamesjguthrie I was looking at minisforum’s other SFF’s last year but never committed. When I saw the MS-01 announced, the specs, and seemingly positive rundown and mini-review from #ServeTheHome , I decided it was past time to do it.

Recent #ServeTheHome video on a Simply NUC device: The 2.5-inch SATA drive bay shouldn't be used and should go away.

A 2.5-inch SATA drive is perfect for a boot device if you are running ESXi or Proxmox, that way you can leave the NVMe SSD for VM use. Or, if you want a NUC to be used for lightweight NVR or DVR storage, higher capacity 2.5-inch HDD or SSD is much cheaper than 2+ TB NVMe SSDs.

Something being useless to you doesn't mean that it's useless for everyone.

#Hardware

#ServeTheHome has published some more dazzling deets on the Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 processor. The processor is using Neoverse N2 cores.

It's not the highest performing cores, but it's not the weakest of the available server- or cloud-oriented cores either.

https://www.servethehome.com/microsoft-azure-cobalt-100-128-core-arm-neoverse-n2-cpu-launched/

#ARM #Neoverse #Microsoft #Azure

Double yikes in CPU vulnerabilities! Both articles are from #ServeTheHome

#Intel DOWNFALL Ultra-Scary #AVX2 and #AVX512 Side channel Attack Discovered

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-downfall-ultra-scary-avx2-and-avx-512-side-channel-attack-discovered/

New Inception Vulnerability Impacts ALL #AMD Zen CPUs Yikes

https://www.servethehome.com/new-inception-vulnerability-impacts-all-amd-zen-cpus-yikes-phantom/

#Security

Just got the #TrueNAS Mini X+ that I ordered and glad to see the tamper stickers are no longer placed on the back of the device (something that #ServeTheHome had brought up in their review).

Also, it's a small thing, but I'm so glad they included two Ethernet cables. I was actually going to be short one since I wanted to use the IPMI interface as well.

雖然他在介紹的是 Asrock 的 AM5 伺服器平台
但是最後一段的內容我還是想要摘要起來XDD

「
請不要在設計產品的時候，在產品名裡面加入"/"，你知道"/"沒辦法被用在 Windows 檔案檔案命名也在網頁面上會有問題

...

如果可以多用"-"
」

一早在聽 #ServeTheHome 介紹這台機器
算是當背景在聽
聽到最後一段講這些
有點會心一笑
然後也努力在想有哪些 3C 產品命名有用"/"
好像蠻多主機板還是會用
但一時之間想不到例子

https://youtu.be/q61vJJ48rkI

#Asrock #AM5 #AMD
#台灣Vtuber #Vtubers #Vtuber #Taiwan

昨天看完這部
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介紹了 DDR5 在 RDIMM 、UDIMM 還有 DDR4 的差別

簡單文摘：
1. 過去 RDIMM 的機器是可以插 UDIMM的，但是 DDR5 RDIMM 輸入電壓是 12V 、UDIMM 是 5V，插槽上防呆也不一樣
2.DDR5本身協定是 ECC on-chip，而 ECC DDR5 則是 ECC on-Module
然後
現在有支援 CXL 的機器
可以透過 CXL 擴充與系統記憶體同等延遲的記憶體容量，而不需要讓 CPU 增加記憶體通道

https://youtu.be/CG5ontMa8kw

#ECC 功能真的是 Allen 會直接選擇 DDR5 的最大誘因

#Allen講看看
#servethehome
#DDR5 #DDR4 #RDIMM #UDIMM #CXL
#台灣Vtuber #Vtubers #Vtuber #taiwan

@alexbuzzbee idk but I want some #servethehome #tinyminimicro to kubernetes cluster, ideally 5-8 of those.