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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

First DDR5 Kit with EXPO ULL just arrived. Let’s see how the fine tuned sub-timings compared to the manuell optimization will work out.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Sub-1nm" chip technology by @IBMResearch. IBM nanostack architecture: Two transistors stacked and bonded together. Each transistor consists of three nanosheets with a thickness of 5 nm thick or the equivalent to about 15 rows of atoms. newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-i...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My colleague did review the Noctua NL-LC1, the first all-in-one cooler from the air cooling and fan specialist. In a nutshell: Impressive! www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The SiPearl Rhea1 is now in a 12-week functional bring-up phase. It's using 61 billion transistors and is manufactured in N6 at TSMC. sipearl.com/rhea1

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's not a new pictures, but I can't stress enough just how amazing IBM's 300 mm wafer with quantum chips looks!

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Does it show how old I am if I like a design like this?

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And we’ll take a look at the #ThermalProtect 600W 12V-2x6 cable from Corsair, which is designed to provide passive protection via temperature monitoring. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Today’s coverage focuses on 12V-2x6 power delivery: First, we’ll take a look at Sapphire #PhantomLink ecosystem. This BTF-compatible connector is designed to simplify power delivery to graphics cards. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Why? Why not? Will have some time with four Arc Pro B70 in a Battlematrix workstation.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Testing some Intel Arc Pro B70

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

VSORA Jotunn8 - 8 compute chiplets - 8 HBM3E - TSMC CoWoS-S packaging - 500 W TDP The package is just a dummy right now. Production is ramping up right now. We will have to wait until MLPerf Inference v6.1 to see how it compares to the competition.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Not only the GPUs are doing the heavy lifting.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Four extra cores and a little software magic: Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This excellent video by Scott Manley explores how the thermal balance of spacecraft works and what it would take to design a spacecraft capable of dissipating the heat generated by space-based data centers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQY...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Oh, I had a brain lag 🤦‍♂️

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I love it when your German just slips out every now and then (“gut”)—it happens to me all the time, too ;)

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Imec starts installing of its ASML EXE:5200 High NA EUV system in its 300 mm clean room in Leuven. Qualification should be finished in Q4 2026.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Since I’m currently looking into 200S Boost again for various reasons, I came across this fantastic German translation. "Die" (Die-2-Die) can be translated to "Stirb" in German which means "death" or "pass away". So it's a Death-to-Death-Interface.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

20 years of CUDA and I was there, when it was born. It was a different NVIDIA, it was a different Jensen ;) #GTC2026 #CUDA

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Comparison of the logic boards of the new MacBook Neo with the iPhone 16 Pro which is using the same SoC as well as the MacBook Air with M3. Source: youtu.be/PbPCGqoBB4Y

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Even though DDR prices are not going up anymore, this shows escalation stage 1 and stage 2 when it comes to memory being not affordable anymore.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Intel Heracles, a FHE accelerator build in Intel 3

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

MTAI 500: - 4x Compute - 2x Network - 1x SoC - later in 2027

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Meta #MTAI Roadmap: MTAI 300: - 1x Compute - 2x Network - in production MTAI 400: - 2x Compute - 2x Network - 1x SoC-Chiplet - path to being deployed MTAI 450: - 2x Compute - 2x Network - 1x SoC - faster D2D compared to MTAI 400 - early 2027

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs Core Ultra 7 265K Core Ultra 5 250K Plus vs Core Ultra 5 245K But be careful: Plus SKUs did use DDR5-7200 while the non refresh SKUs did use DDR5-6400. It's legit in terms of MC verification, but keep it in mind when seeing these numbers.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Intel just announced the Core Ultra 200S Plus SKUs. Two additional efficiency cores and +900 MHz for the D2D interface. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Today I saw my first meteorite burn up in the atmosphere. What a spectacle!

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Something to play around with in the coming days.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If I'm not doing a mistake, with 3 $/G it's "just" 25 % cheaper compared to Germany. I did expect the difference to be much bigger. Fortunately, we switched to a heat pump for heating and hot water in November last year and also cover a large part of our electricity needs with a solar power system.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

These are tools, that should not really exist, but for certain reasons, in some cases there is at least a desire to use them. We had a look at the Aqua Computer Ampinel and Thermal Grizzly WireView Pro II – do show the features and limitations: www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

So we now have the Compute Tile (Intel 18A, first wafer) and Base Tile (Intel 3, second wafer), but we are still missing the I/O Tile (Intel 7) for Clearwater Forest.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

#Ampinel by #AquaComputer working hard to balance a faulty 12V-2x6 cable at 600 watts. You can see how the MOSFETs of the balancing electronics are increasing the electrical resistance to regulate inequalities to a certain degree.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Intel just released some new wafer shots of Xeon 6+ aka Clearwater Forest with a different esthetic compared to what we have seen before. Thats presumably because more metal layers are present to this one?

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

AMD PR gave the answer a little later. There are also non-PRO SKUs.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Ryzen AI PRO 400 is not only limited to the PRO segment with regard to the target group, but also in terms of the number of CPU cores and CUs. But there are still renderings without the "PRO" naming floating around with this announcement. So there is still hope for a 8000G successor.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Like Samsung with Fab P5, SK Hynix is also planing a three story cleanroom structural framing that fits up to six cleanrooms in one building of the Yongin semiconductor cluster. Opening of the first cleanroom is expected to be moved up from May to February 2027. news.skhynix.com/new-facility...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Justified by a patent ruling or preliminary injunction issued in favor of Nokia – the damage is unimaginable to me. Even new products and their reviews that were and will be announced during this period are unlikely to appear on the German websites.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's a crazy story, even if it's limited to the german market. For ten days now, Acer and ASUS are not allowed to show and sell notebooks and complete systems (NUC) on their website. asus.de is no back online, but every reference to these products were removed.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Something special arrived today. @msigaming.bsky.social GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z and finally we to see something, that should have been there from the beginning: Two 12V-2x6 connectors. 0031 / 1,300 www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A community member of Hardwarelxx developed a mod for the black ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 to flash it with the Matrix VBIOS. Great work and nice to these kind of enthusiasm. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ne...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Review drop: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Coming from the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, this is obviously not a sensible upgrade path, but even if it were, the higher power consumption is disproportionate to the additional performance. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Microsoft Maia 200 is deployed for Azure - 3 nm TSMC - 140 billion transistors - 750 W TDP - 216 GB HBM3e at 7 TB/s - 272 MB SRAM - 10 PFLOPS FP4 - 5 PLOPS FP8

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Retesting some CPUs for a reason …

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Intel Core Ultra X9 388H C2C Latency You can easily distinguish between the P, E and LPE core clusters – although the LPE cores are now on the same compute tile. www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/ar...

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

No die shot today, but I did brick build an ASDS with a landed Falcon 9 booster today. Would make a nice background addition to your filming set @djsnm.bsky.social.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The only thing TSMC is giving us here is wafer shipments in 300 mm equivalents.

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A. Schilling @aschilling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The recurring historical chart showing TSMC's revenue by technology.

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