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11 published articles
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash lands on Cambricon's vLLM stack
A 552B model, a quarter of the HBM, and a day-one Cambricon port
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash reached Cambricon accelerators on day one through vLLM. The port says less about the model than about how fast Chinese chip vendors can now follow a public inference framework.
2026-09-22
Mergers & Acquisitions
GoPro's $285M sale to Starman pushes its cameras toward defense work
Starman Holding is buying GoPro for $285 million in cash and steering it toward defense, government, robotics and aerospace. The deal follows years of decline, $92 million in debt, and a YouTuber's surprise 8.5 percent stake.
2026-09-15
HDR10+ ADVANCED: Samsung and Prime Video ship it first
Can scene-by-scene metadata fix motion smoothing's bad reputation?
Prime Video is the first streaming service to adopt HDR10+ ADVANCED on Samsung's 2026 TVs from August 2026. The standard adds Enhanced Overall Brightness and scene-aware Intelligent Motion Smoothing, the setting with the worst reputation in home theater, now backed by smarter metadata.
2026-08-11
GPU Architecture
AMD MI455X doubles memory capacity, Hugging Face tests confirm 3x request throughput
Early results from Hugging Face show the AMD Instinct MI455X can handle three times more concurrent requests than the MI300, thanks to 432 GB of HBM4 memory. The Transformers library achieves 99.5% success rate on 24 key model architectures.
2026-07-30
Hardware Inflation
The memory shortage is making your next gadget more expensive
Qualcomm and Roku lead a wave of hardware price hikes as a memory shortage, fueled by AI demand, is expected to last through 2027. The increases ripple across smartphones, streaming devices, and other electronics, with no relief in sight.
2026-07-26
Hardware
A 128 GB desktop that undercuts Nvidia cloud rentals by 6x
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo targets local AI development with 128 GB unified memory, support for up to 200B parameter models, and claims of up to 7.3x faster performance than Apple M4 Pro on certain image generation tasks. The platform runs on both Windows and Linux, a differentiator against Nvidia's Linux-only DGX Spark.
2026-07-25
AI & Robotics
Nvidia's robot model just unlocked a three-order-of-magnitude advantage: time
NVIDIA Research's RoboTTT scales robot model context to 8K timesteps, three orders of magnitude beyond current policies, unlocking one-shot imitation from human video and 87% performance gains, suggesting context length as a new scaling axis for robot foundation models.
2026-07-17
Hardware & Electronics
A 40nm chip just made Nvidia's A100 look 478 times slower
A joint team from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has built a neuromorphic chip that processes neural dynamics 50 to 478 times faster than an NVIDIA A100 GPU while using a fraction of the power. The 40nm phase-change memristor chip achieves millisecond-level real-time neural dynamics, opening the door to surgical navigation and brain digital twins.
2026-07-16
Market momentum
Nvidia just crossed $3 trillion again. The AI spending machine isn't slowing down.
Nvidia's market cap crossed $3 trillion as AI infrastructure demand keeps growing. The milestone underscores that enterprise GPU purchases remain strong despite growing competition from AMD and startups offering cheaper inference chips.
2026-07-16
Data Engineering
JPEG at quality 92: the boring data engineering choice that made Photoroom's 7B model work
Photoroom releases the fourth part of its PRX model development series, detailing a data pipeline that prioritizes breadth and consistency over per-image perfection. The post reveals that JPEG compression at quality 92 is indistinguishable from PNG for training, and that the fastest captioner won over the most accurate one when scaling to hundreds of millions of images.
2026-07-06
Distributed databases
Five database optimizations that turned 10-second queries into milliseconds
Large order tables in distributed databases suffer from unstable index selection, expensive table lookups, and wasted partition scans. This analysis presents five production-tested optimizations for PolarDB-X, with real-world latency drops from seconds to milliseconds.
2024-08-01