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SUPPORT US! Get a Microslop T-Shirt! https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/microslop-parody-t-shirt This is just a fun discussion with Wendell of Level1 Techs to talk about Valve's exit plan from Microsoft Windows, SteamOS' development, and whether Valve is a trustworthy steward of Linux. We also talk about why…
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This isn't a laptop to browse YouTube with. This is a work laptop for computer work things! 0:00 Intro 1:32 Unboxing and Basic Background 7:27 Teardown 10:41 Benchmarks 15:44 AI 18:34 Linux 23:19 Conclusion You can find us... Twitter - https://twitter.com/level1techs Twitch - https://twitch.tv/teampgp Patreon -…
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This isn't a build for your homelab. Well... it could be if you had a lot of money! But better to let the business pay for it instead. 0:00 Intro 0:59 The Case 3:56 The Motherboard and CPU 9:45 Other Parts and The Build 24:36 Benchmarks and Outro You can find us... Twitter - https://twitter.com/level1techs Twitch -…
SUPPORT US! GET MICROSLOP: https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/microslop-parody-t-shirt or grab one of our DATA DRAGNET campaign supporter packs! https://store.gamersnexus.net/data-dragnet We estimate 25,000,000 to 35,000,000 ASUS routers -- nearly every modern router the company has sold since 2018 -- are affected…
Running your AI locally is tons of fun, but how do you make sure you're getting the most quality results? Wendell lays it out! 0:00 - Intro 2:54 - Pow3rtool 5:35 - Results 7:21 - Final Thoughts You can find us... Twitter - https://twitter.com/level1techs Twitch - https://twitch.tv/teampgp Patreon -…
Links: - Patreon (Support the channel directly!): https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - X: https://twitter.com/asianometry - Newsletter & Podcast (available through Stratechery Plus): https://asianometry.passport.online/ - LinkedIn (feel free to connect): www.linkedin.com/in/jon-y-asianometry
SUPPORT US: MICROSLOP T-SHIRT on the GN Store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/microslop-parody-t-shirt or our Wireframe V2 Mouse Mat! https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/gn-wireframe-v2-mouse-mat In the news this week, we talk about the NVIDIA RTX Spark announcement, mostly focused on its insanely expensive…
IBM's next-generation Z processor doesn't just run Z; it runs Arm natively too, and at 5.7 GHz that makes it the fastest Arm chip ever made. At Hot Chips 2026, IBM opened day one by unveiling a dual-ISA core that switches between z/Architecture and Armv9.3 on a per-thread basis, alongside 11 cores on Samsung 2nm, 36…
Can this laptop compete with the other RTX Sparks, or is this just made with leftover AI parts? 0:00 Intro 0:20 Overview 4:22 Gaming Benchmarks 7:01 General Benchmarks 8:25 AI 11:42 Deep thoughts 22:33 Conclusion You can find us... Twitter - https://twitter.com/level1techs Twitch - https://twitch.tv/teampgp Patreon -…
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Meta builds its own AI accelerators, and at Hot Chips 2026 it presents the next two: the MTIA 300 for training and the MTIA 400 for generative AI and recommendation. Recommendation compute at Meta grows 3x a year, and GPUs sit idle waiting on memory for those workloads. I also show the first two MTIA generations on…
Grab a MICROSLOP T-SHIRT! https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/microslop-parody-t-shirt Micron has discovered an infinite money glitch: Just keep increasing the price, or something. It was that simple all along. Micron's consumer margin is now a disgusting 90%, multiplying what they make versus prior quarters.…
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Sponsor: ID-Cooling Frozn A620 SLK on Amazon https://geni.us/Vc8Zi We talk with Wendell about cool, older hardware that's still useful -- especially for self-hosting and bringing services into your own hands. The unfortunate reason DDR3 has once again found modern usefulness is due to the memory pricing crisis,…
Agentic AI runs its tools on the CPU, and no vendor tells you how many cores an agent needs. In this keynote at the Design Automation Conference, I compare AMD Venice, Intel Xeon 6, the Arm AGI CPU and Nvidia Vera, then follow the problem down into advanced packaging, CFETs and thermals. You also hear what EDA tools…
Update: This is why I don't do news. Since this video has come out, Elon has tweeted that he is only going to lease space to TSMC. Who knows what is going to happen. Links: - Patreon (Support the channel directly!): https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry - X: https://twitter.com/asianometry - Newsletter & Podcast…
Wendell went out to see @AZisk to talk shop about new tech and AI. You can find us... Twitter - https://twitter.com/level1techs Twitch - https://twitch.tv/teampgp Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/level1 For all our social links, websites, and more, check out our link tree! https://linktr.ee/level1techs Thank you for…
It's not every day ASML calls you up for a favor. In this fireside chat recorded live at Hello Tomorrow in Amsterdam, I sit down with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet to talk Moore's Law, the company's unconventional origin story, and the two decades of costly trial-and-error behind EUV lithography. We also get into the…
Sponsor: ID-Cooling Frozn A620 SLK on Amazon https://geni.us/Vc8Zi In hardware news this week, we talk about Discord's age verification rollout failure, the 5090 apparently being too valuable to actually service now, Jensen being exactly like us, and more GPU smuggling news. Also, smart refrigerators probably weren't…
Hardware is expensive! But software can be, and still is, affordable. So let Wendell show you a few! In this video, we go over Fygo OS, Hex OS, and Proxmox. 0:00 Intro 1:10 Let Me Explain 11:35 Fygo OS 17:42 Hex OS 24:41 Proxmox 29:03 Forum Softwares 30:40 Nerdware 33:39 Dell Aside 34:34 Option across the Spectrum…
South Korea's AI chip scene is booming - DEEPX, HyperAccel, Mobilint, FuriosaAI, and Rebellions are all racing to carve out a niche between the edge and the data center. Ian Cutress and Sally Ward-Foxton give their honest takes on which companies have the traction, funding, and roadmap to actually make it - including…
SUPPORT OUR WORK: https://store.gamersnexus.net/data-dragnet for the campaign, or grab individual items here: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ The AI companies all gathered together to collectively write a new so-called "AI Constitution" where they police themselves. The accord effectively does nothing, but it does set…
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How does the new Apple M6 compare to the M5? Apple Silicon deep-dive based on real die shots from @SemiAnalysis Find your new job at STEEL: https://semianalysis.com/semianalysis-careers/?loc=hillsboro#roles Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/u46978634 Follow me on X: https://twitter.com/highyieldYT 0:00 Intro…
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South Korea has quietly become one of the most active fronts in the AI chip race, and Sally Ward-Foxton and Ian Cutress are on the ground to find out why. In this episode of The AI Hardware Show, they break down five of the country's boldest AI silicon players — DeepX, HyperAccel, Mobilint, Furiosa AI, and Rebellions…
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Building with the good stuff!!... that we don't get to keep. Maybe someday! Some of the parts used Affiliate Links: Tubing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A0PZZYQ/level1techs-20 GPU Block: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS3PH5ZZ/level1techs-20 CPU Block: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR8G41XC/level1techs-20 Radiator:…
Broadcom's Beast XPU is coming in 2028 with 16 HBM stacks and 8 compute dies on a single package, but how do you actually build something that big? At OCP Taiwan, Broadcom's VP of ASIC products gave a talk on 3.5D heterogeneous "scale-in" packaging, covering face-to-face bonding, 8x higher thermal density, chiplet…
Today's sponsor is https://www.amtechmicro.com Richard Ho leads hardware at OpenAI. He joined Google's TPU program as one of its first engineers, built Anton supercomputers at D. E. Shaw before that, and now runs the team behind Jalapeño. He tells me how close he came to a blank cheque, why the team bet on wiring HBM…
Sponsor: ID-Cooling Frozn A620 SLK on Amazon https://geni.us/Vc8Zi NVIDIA keeps talking about GPU rentability, GPUs equaling GDP, how fantastic scarcity is for its business, and how it definitely, absolutely isn't engaging in circular financing. No, NVIDIA says it is not a circle. It's a cycle. A "virtuous cycle" --…
I walk the show floor at TSMC's Open Innovation Platform (OIP) event in the Bay Area. It's a one-day conference where TSMC puts its partners front and centre. We stop by Cadence, Samsung, SK hynix, Synopsys and GUC to see what's next for HBM thermals, co-packaged optics, UCIe 2.0 and AI-assisted chip design. If you've…
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Forget the data center - the real AI action might be happening in microwatts. Sally Ward-Foxton and Ian Cutress dig into the tiniest AI chips on the market, from analog compute upstarts to ARM's revived Ethos NPU line, and debate why an "AI ASIC" isn't really an ASIC at all. Plus: a mysterious defense-linked startup…
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A deep-dive into the 2nm Apple A20 Pro SoC, based on die shots from @SemiAnalysis STEEL. How does the first TSMC N2 chip work? Check out the open positions at STEEL: https://semianalysis.com/semianalysis-careers/ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=46978634 Follow me on X: https://x.com/highyieldYT…
Forget the data center - the real AI action might be happening in a coin-cell battery near you. Ian Cutress and Sally Ward-Foxton dig into six ultra-low-power chip architectures built to run always-on AI for years on almost nothing, from analog processors that skip the ADC entirely to sparse compute engines that only…
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SUPPORT OUR WORK https://store.gamersnexus.net/data-dragnet Microsoft has filed for a new patent that describes a credit system to "rent" software and games, including rate-limited rentals based on the type of use. In their examples, singleplayer costs more than training mode, but multiplayer costs more credits than…
Sponsor: Lexar Play MicroSD Cards on Amazon: https://geni.us/fUQYvq and Play Pro on Amazon https://geni.us/WC89AO The Corsair Warthog gaming PC case is a true throwback to an older era of PC building -- when RAM was affordable and NVIDIA hadn't begun its descent into AI psychosis -- and the case does well to bring it…
Sponsor: Thermal Grizzly Duronaut on Amazon - https://geni.us/tpgcPMw The cyclical nature of memory manufacturing may finally be broken -- and not in a good way for consumers. The memory manufacturers have all moved toward long-term agreements with longer terms and capacity than previously, with Micron, Samsung, and…
Edge AI doesn't need a data center - it's already running in retail stores, laptops, and microcontrollers all around you. In part two of this edge AI deep-dive, Ian Cutress and Sally Ward-Foxton go off-script to talk through seven chip companies - Axelera AI, Kalray, Kinara, EdgeCortix, MemryX, SiMa.ai, and…
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