Day: December 27, 2025

As hyperscalers shift from AI training to inference workloads, the need for high-capacity memory is surging. While HBM benefits, NAND is also in high demand. SanDisk reports an undersupplied NAND market through the end of 2026, with customer conversations now pointing to tight supply extending into 2027, according to Yahoo! Finance and IT Home. According […]

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Unfortunately i watched that video (first MLID video I watch, I had to put it in 2x given all the fluff).No, no “details” are leaked, he simply claims Penelope and Nemesis are the codenames for zen 8 and zen 9, then speculates they will (the consumer versions) support DDR6 and PCIE6, and he’s not even […]

Now with eight cores per CCX, since launch, AMD has been extremely coy about telling anyone publicly how those cores are connected together. When asked at launch if the cores in a Zen 3 eight-core CCX were fully connected, AMD’s general attitude was ‘Not quite, but close enough’. This would mean something between a ring […]

Linked In Lunatics In a job listing, Galen Hunt, who has been with Microsoft for the past three decades and is currently a Distinguished Engineer, confirmed that his team has an opening for an “IC5 Principal Software Engineer.” But it’s far from a simple job listing. Windows Latest spotted some intriguing details on Microsoft’s careers […]

Jurrien Timmer, Director of Global Macro at Fidelity Investments, believes that 2026 might be a gap year for bitcoin, even with the current tailwinds. Trimmer states that bitcoin might take a year off as part of its classic 4-year cycle. Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer: Winter Might Be Upon Us, 2026 Might Be a ‘Year Off’ for […]

N4P is supposed to be -22% power @ iso-perf relative to base N5. Relative to N5P, however, TSMC’s numbers give something like +4% perf, iso-power, or -7% power, iso-perf. Honestly, kinda marginal gains. Does beg the question, however. With Zen 5 widely expected to bring a much “bigger” core, but only small improvements on the […]

ATX dying would probably require a drastic upheaval beyond even CAMM. Likeliest candidate for the executioner would be tied to development of glass PCBs with photonic interconnects – something I don’t expect to land anytime soon even with TSMC and other non Intel parties making moves on photonics.