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Cover illustration for AMD Strix Halo Mini PCs Are Here — And They Can Run 120-Billion-Parameter AI Models Locally
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Mini Computers

AMD Strix Halo Mini PCs Are Here — And They Can Run 120-Billion-Parameter AI Models Locally

A wave of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PCs is shipping with 128GB unified memory, bringing serious local AI inference to a box on your desk.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Feb 25, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for This Finnish Startup Burned Llama 3.1 Directly Into Silicon — And It Runs at 17,000 Tokens Per Second
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Mini Computers

This Finnish Startup Burned Llama 3.1 Directly Into Silicon — And It Runs at 17,000 Tokens Per Second

Taalas HC1 eliminates the memory bottleneck entirely by hardwiring an LLM into the chip itself, achieving 10x the speed of an NVIDIA H100.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Feb 24, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for The DshanPi-A1 Is a $70 AI Education Board With a Rare HDMI Input Port
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Mini Computers

The DshanPi-A1 Is a $70 AI Education Board With a Rare HDMI Input Port

This Rockchip RK3576-powered SBC packs a 6 TOPS NPU, dual cameras, and both HDMI input and output — perfect for computer vision projects.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Feb 24, 2026★4 min read