A. Schilling
aschilling.bsky.social
A. Schilling
@aschilling.bsky.social
Editor at hardwareluxx.de
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.
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
IBM Quantum Loon and Quantum Nighthawk that are being fabricated at NY CREATES' Albany NanoTech Complex on the 300 mm wafer line.
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"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 ...
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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.

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November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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.

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November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Needed to disassemble a GeForce RTX 5090 for a reason. The reason is stupid 🤪
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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.

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October 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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.
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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.

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October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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.
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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!
October 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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 🇹🇼
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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)

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October 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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.
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
OpenAI and Tachyum announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 Quadrillion Watts of Compute Power without deploying any actual Chip made by Tachyum.
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
TSMC Revenue by Node as of Q3 2025.

We should see N2 emerging by Q1 2026 in this graph.
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Apple M5

- 4x Performance Core
- 6x Efficiency Core
- +15% nT Performance
- +45% higher GPU Performance
- 153 GB/s Memory Interface
- 3 nm Process
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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.
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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.
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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.
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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.
October 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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.
October 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
October 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is a #Intel18A wafer with #PantherLake compute tiles.

I did a quick annotation (see 2nd picture attached).
October 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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

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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM