Articles Tagged "Hardware"

A $900 RTX 3090 Now Beats an M5 Max at LLM Inference

A $900 RTX 3090 Now Beats an M5 Max at LLM Inference

Two researchers fused all 24 layers of Qwen 3.5-0.8B into a single CUDA kernel launch, making a five-year-old RTX 3090 deliver 1.8x the throughput of an M5 Max at equal or better efficiency. The gap was software, not silicon.

Positron Atlas - FPGA Inference Server

Positron Atlas - FPGA Inference Server

The Positron Atlas is an 8-card FPGA inference server delivering 4.5x better performance per watt than the NVIDIA DGX H200 at 2000W in a single 1U chassis.

A Shoe Company Ditched Shoes for GPUs and Surged 373%

A Shoe Company Ditched Shoes for GPUs and Surged 373%

Allbirds sold its entire footwear business for $39 million - roughly 1% of its $4 billion peak valuation - and is rebranding as NewBird AI to buy GPUs and rent compute to AI developers. The stock quadrupled in a day.

NVIDIA Ising

NVIDIA Ising

NVIDIA Ising is the world's first open AI model family for quantum computing - a 35B MoE VLM for quantum processor calibration and 3D CNN decoders for real-time surface code error correction.

Arm Launches AGI CPU, Its First Chip in 35 Years

Arm Launches AGI CPU, Its First Chip in 35 Years

At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm unveiled the AGI CPU - a 136-core data center processor co-developed with Meta and the company's first owned silicon product in its 35-year history.