Recently when I enquired about the warranty services on Silicon Power website for my Amazon India purchased 1 TB SSD, I was surprised to see that they are not honoring the warranty in India and asking to ship to Taiwan, following enquiries for clarification and Amazon CC asking warranty denial letter received no response, basically ghosted by theā¦ Read More »
Tiiny a new company building something different in the LocalLLM space has unveiled a pocket size mini LLM computer that will run the 120B GPT-OSS LLM at a generous speed of 21 tok/s while consuming only 30-65 watts of power. So, how did they cram all that power into such a tiny package? The secret sauce lies inā¦ Read More »
The HIKSEMI NAS R1 is an upcoming network-attached storage device designed for small business and teams that need reliable local storage without depending upon cloud networks and is offering max capacity up to 100 TB. It features a full-color touchscreen, Docker support, and intelligent capabilities such as AI-powered photo and video backups, smart media organization, home automation, privateā¦ Read More »
Gigabyte has just launched an expensive RTX 5090 in an external GPU enclosure that you can connect to your existing mini PCs, laptops and computers with a thunderbolt port. The machine has been named as AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX, powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture and GeForce RTX 5090 GPU with 32GB VRAM and over 3000 AIā¦ Read More »
Running LLMs locally using an AMD GPU (RX 7900 XTX and RX 9070 XT etc.) can be done using the AMD funded open source software called Lemonade that you can download on your Windows and Linux machines. Lemonade is local LLM desktop server software that has components and runtime that allows access to NPU on supported CPU andā¦ Read More »
Qualcomm is soon coming up with the next generation of X2 Elite based tiny/mini PCs and laptops that will this time reach 5.0 Ghz on two Oryn Prime Cores and 4.4 Ghz on all core heavy loads, these high clock speeds should bring it in parity with the current gen AMD Ryzen and Intel counterparts with the addedā¦ Read More »
We have a new freshly churned mobile processor Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 from the 3nm TSMC process node that will feature in the upcoming top of the line flagship mobile phones like the Xiaomi 17, Samsung S26, One Plus 15 etc. Qualcomm has this time made several improvements, especially in the on device LLM capabilities, as perā¦ Read More »
Finally something interesting in the mobile hardware launches and not just a 120Hz screen upgrade, something that you can get excited about, a dual screen design in the upcoming Xiaomi 17 and Xiaomi 17 Pro, the camera box now has a display that could assist you with selfies with the main Leica cam. All fits nicely into aā¦ Read More »
MediaTek has just released a mobile processor king featuring all big performance cores instead of big + little efficiency cores found in Snapdragon series. MediaTek just want to destroy Snapdragon in pure performance just like they did with Dimesity 9400, now the 9500 series is getting a lot of juicy performance hardware including the AI features like NPUā¦ Read More »
A new Raspberry Pi 5 alternative in the x86 domain is now released by LattePanda, named as IOTA and featuring a co-processor for IOT tasks as well as supporting Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24 officially. It is a compact palm size powerhouse, measuring just 88āÆmmāÆĆāÆ70āÆmm and is equipped with an Intel Processor N150, boasting 4 cores/4 threads andā¦ Read More »