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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AMD Unveils Helion Racks With 32,768 Zen 6 EPYC Cores For Agentic AI

The Helios AI is AMD's massive, double-wide GPU-focused compute blueprint that has eighteen blades with four GPUs and one CPU each. It's an incredibly powerful system for training frontier AI models like those used for ChatGPT, but most customers aren't doing that. The hot new thing now is agentic AI, and AMD's new Helion platform is directly

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SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

Sorry Radeon Fans, AMD May Hold RDNA 5 Until Late 2027

Although it has been roughly 17 months since the initial release of its RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series cards, news regarding its next generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture remains scarce, with rumors indicating we could be waiting another year for anything solid to materialize. We have official confirmation of some things, including

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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS AND ROBOTICS

NZXT Partner Fragile Rescues Gamer Scammed By Stolen Rental PC Sale

A PC gamer got a nasty surprise when the computer they purchased from someone on OfferUp ended up being a stolen system. Luckily, there’s a happy ending to this story. After posting about their ordeal on the pcmasterrace subreddit they were able to get in contact with Fragile, which operates NZXT’s Flex program, and ended up with a legitimate

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POLITICS AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS

SCSKiller Tool Aims To Eliminate GPU Shader Stutters For Free

Game hitching and stuttering is the enemy of a good experience. It's a plague on modern gaming, though it's far from exclusively a modern affliction; we just notice it more because we have higher expectations and lower frame times. A significant source of stuttering is "shader compilation", where the graphics program source code in a game

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Microsoft's Maia 300 AI Chip Aims To Make AI Cheaper And Faster

As Microsoft continues to build-out multi-gigawatt cloud and AI infrastructure deployments, its custom silicon remains a major focus. Today Microsoft reiterated that its Maia 200 is production-proven and deployed across regions in the United States, Europe, and Australia, and that the next-generation Maia 300, which reportedly boosts AI inference

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