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Cover illustration for DGX Spark 64GB: Who NVIDIA's $4,999 Local AI Box Is For
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DGX Spark 64GB: Who NVIDIA's $4,999 Local AI Box Is For

NVIDIA's DGX Spark 64GB starts at $4,999 on Oct 23 and runs models up to 100B parameters. Here is who the local AI box suits and how clustering works.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Oct 2, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for Microchip Buys Hailo: What It Means for Pi AI HAT Users
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Microchip Buys Hailo: What It Means for Pi AI HAT Users

Microchip closed its Hailo acquisition on September 21 and pledged to keep supporting Hailo chips. Here's what it means for Raspberry Pi AI HAT owners.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 23, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for d-Matrix Raptor XPUs Join Nvidia's NVLink Fusion Racks
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d-Matrix Raptor XPUs Join Nvidia's NVLink Fusion Racks

d-Matrix will build its Raptor inference XPUs around Nvidia NVLink Fusion and MGX racks, with 3 TB/s per-XPU bandwidth and availability in Q4 2027.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Sep 10, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Arm C2-Ultra Delivers 1.7x AI Performance on Mobile
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Arm C2-Ultra Delivers 1.7x AI Performance on Mobile

Arm's CSS for Mobile 2 pairs the C2-Ultra CPU with the first Mali GPU to carry neural accelerators, claiming 1.7x AI gains on 38% less power.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 8, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for Mojo 1.0 Compiler Goes Open Source Under Apache 2.0
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Mojo 1.0 Compiler Goes Open Source Under Apache 2.0

Modular open-sourced the entire Mojo compiler and toolchain under Apache 2.0 at ModCon 2026, alongside 450,000 lines of GPU kernel code.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 20, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for StarFive Dubhe-100 Is a Server-Class RISC-V CPU Core
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StarFive Dubhe-100 Is a Server-Class RISC-V CPU Core

StarFive's Dubhe-100 is an RVA23-compliant RISC-V core hitting 15 SPECint2006 per GHz, with a 15-stage out-of-order pipeline and KVM already running.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 20, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Exo Labs' local.ai Helps You Run Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware
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Exo Labs' local.ai Helps You Run Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

Exo Labs launched local.ai, a free platform that matches the best AI model to your own hardware and shows when running locally beats paying per API token.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 9, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for OpenAI and Broadcom's "Jalapeño" Chip: Custom Silicon for Inference
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OpenAI and Broadcom's "Jalapeño" Chip: Custom Silicon for Inference

OpenAI's first custom chip, Jalapeño, is an inference-focused ASIC co-built with Broadcom, promising better performance-per-watt for large language models.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 1, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, a Custom AI Inference Chip
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OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, a Custom AI Inference Chip

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on June 24, 2026 — OpenAI's first custom AI inference chip, promising better performance-per-watt and major cost savings for everyday AI.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jun 25, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Orange Pi AI Station Brings 176 TOPS and 96GB RAM to the DIY AI Workbench
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Orange Pi AI Station Brings 176 TOPS and 96GB RAM to the DIY AI Workbench

Orange Pi's new AI Station packs a Huawei Ascend 310 SoC with 176 TOPS of AI performance and up to 96GB LPDDR4X RAM into a maker-friendly mini PC.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Apr 6, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for AMD Strix Halo Mini PCs Are Here — And They Can Run 120-Billion-Parameter AI Models Locally
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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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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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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