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Cover illustration for Fujitsu MONAKA Puts 144 Arm Cores on Sale in November
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Fujitsu MONAKA Puts 144 Arm Cores on Sale in November

Fujitsu's 2nm MONAKA server CPU packs 144 Armv9 cores and claims twice the AI inference throughput of rival CPUs at half the power. On sale in November.

Jake Trader
Jake Trader★Sep 19, 2026★6 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 WebGPU Kernels Make Local AI in the Browser 2.57x Faster
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WebGPU Kernels Make Local AI in the Browser 2.57x Faster

Hugging Face published 207 WebGPU kernels as a JavaScript library, reporting a 2.57x geometric-mean speedup over ORT WebGPU on an Apple M4 GPU.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Sep 1, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Meta MTIA 400 Puts 9.4TB/s HBM3e Behind FP4 Inference
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Meta MTIA 400 Puts 9.4TB/s HBM3e Behind FP4 Inference

Meta detailed MTIA 400 at Hot Chips 2026: eight HBM3e stacks, 9.4TB/s of bandwidth, hardware FP4, and scale-up domains reaching 72 accelerators.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 27, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for Cerebras CS-4 Packs Three Wafer-Scale Chips in a Rack
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Cerebras CS-4 Packs Three Wafer-Scale Chips in a Rack

The Cerebras CS-4 puts three WSE-3 Turbo wafers in one rack for 750 PFLOPS, and Cerebras clocks 4,400 tokens per second per user on GPT-OSS-120B.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 20, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Etched Raises $700M at a $21B AI Chip Valuation
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Etched Raises $700M at a $21B AI Chip Valuation

Etched closed a $700M Series D led by Jane Street at a $21 billion valuation, doubling in just a month as inference chip orders pass $1 billion.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 18, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Fireworks AI Raises $1.5B for Faster Model Inference
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Fireworks AI Raises $1.5B for Faster Model Inference

Fireworks AI closed a $1.505 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation, a 4.4x step-up in nine months, betting on production model inference.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 19, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for Orange Pi's AI Station Packs a Huawei Ascend 310 With 96GB RAM and 176 TOPS Into a Single Board Computer
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Orange Pi's AI Station Packs a Huawei Ascend 310 With 96GB RAM and 176 TOPS Into a Single Board Computer

The Orange Pi AI Station pairs 10 dedicated AI cores with 16 CPU cores, up to 96GB LPDDR4X, and 256GB eMMC — delivering data-center-class AI inference on a 130mm board.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Mar 16, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Inception Labs Launches Mercury 2 — The First Reasoning LLM Built on Diffusion Architecture
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Inception Labs Launches Mercury 2 — The First Reasoning LLM Built on Diffusion Architecture

Mercury 2 processes tokens in parallel via iterative denoising, hitting 1,000 tokens per second while matching top reasoning models on benchmarks.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Feb 26, 2026★5 min read