Hacker News with Generative AI: Hardware

Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips (pcgamer.com)
D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify (theregister.com)
Owners of older models of D-Link VPN routers are being told to retire and replace their devices following the disclosure of a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.
Linux 6.13 Supports Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" for 2 to 128 TB Storage (phoronix.com)
Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards.
Rent H100 SXMs for 0.99 (hyperbolic.xyz)
Implement a USB->SCSI Bridge Mode for BlueSCSI (github.com/BlueSCSI)
This feature request is to add a new "mode" to BlueSCSI that allows it to connect legacy SCSI devices to a modern-ish host via USB.
Amazon introduces Echo Show 21, its largest smart display ever (aboutamazon.com)
Amazon introduces Echo Show 21, its largest smart display ever—and all-new Echo Show 15
AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 (tomshardware.com)
Show HN: SmartDesk 5–A touchscreen-enabled standing desk for developers (autonomous.ai)
SmartDesk 5 is the result of listening, learning, and building for you—the changemakers.
D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage (theregister.com)
Owners of older models of D-Link VPN routers are being told to retire and replace their devices following the disclosure of a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.
Lenovo Has a CXL Memory Monster with 128x 128GB DDR5 DIMMs (servethehome.com)
At OCP Summit 2024, we saw one more CXL monster, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V3. This system is listed on Lenovo’s website as having “Up to 16TB of TruDDR5 memory in 64x slots.” At the OCP Summit 2024, we saw this beast and how Lenovo is doing it with the help of CXL and Astera Labs Leo.
Prusa CORE One: Our new fully-enclosed CoreXY 3D printer (prusa3d.com)
I’m really excited that I can finally unveil the new Prusa CORE One! Not just here, with text and a 10-minute video deep dive, but also live at FormNext in Frankfurt. So if you’re visiting, stop by our booth at Hall 12.1 / stand G39. We’d love to see you and show you our new flagship machine!
HPE Slingshot 400 Brings a Liquid Cooled 51.2T Switch and 400Gbps Networking (servethehome.com)
HPE is joining the 400Gbps generation for its Ethernet-based HPC interconnect. The new HPE Slingshot 400 not only increases the switch ASIC speed to 51.2Tbps, but it also will usher in significantly faster HPC interconnect speeds to keep pace with solutions like the NVIDIA Spectrum-X we showed in the 100K GPU xAI Colossus Cluster that are being used in AI clusters. We saw the new liquid-cooled switch on the SC24 show floor.
Toshiba stuffs an entire PC into a dot matrix printer – Toshiba Jimucon SJ-9500 (tomshardware.com)
Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC (windowscentral.com)
Windows 365 Link–the first Cloud PC device for Windows 365 (microsoft.com)
In 2021, we announced Windows 365 to the world and introduced the Cloud PC, a whole new category of cloud computing.
The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future (the-analog-thing.org)
THE ANALOG THING (THAT) is a high-quality, low-cost, open-source, and not-for-profit cutting-edge analog computer.
Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps (techcrunch.com)
Prefer to offload all your Windows tasks to the cloud? Microsoft may just have the compact, desk-bound computer for you.
Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud (theverge.com)
Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year.
Prusa Core One (prusa3d.com)
I’m really excited that I can finally unveil the new Prusa CORE One! Not just here, with text and a 10-minute video deep dive, but also live at FormNext in Frankfurt. So if you’re visiting, stop by our booth at Hall 12.1 / stand G39. We’d love to see you and show you our new flagship machine!
Intel celebrates the arrival of MRDIMMs – double memory bandwidth of DRAM (tomshardware.com)
AAA Linux Gaming on ARM64 Mac Hardware, Now a Reality (boilingsteam.com)
Things are moving fast for Asahi Linux, the Linux distribution for ARM64-based Macs, and just last month there was a long post from Rosenzweig about the fact that AAA gaming is now at reach on the M1 ARM64 hardware from Apple.
Arm PC Base System Architecture 1.0 (developer.arm.com)
Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail (tomshardware.com)
IBM Research's AIU family of chips (research.ibm.com)
IBM Research’s AIU family of prototype chip designs point the way to a future where AI computation is more efficient, less power hungry, and more capable.
Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board (theregister.com)
The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V main board now available.
AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia (nextplatform.com)
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed.
AMD Radeon Pro W7700 Running on Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
After years of work among a bunch of people in the Pi community (special callout to Coreforge!), we finally have multiple generations of AMD graphics cards working on the Raspberry Pi 5.
M4 chips: E and P cores (eclecticlight.co)
In the two previous articles (links at the end), I explored some of the features and properties of Performance (P) cores in Apple’s latest M4 chips. This article looks at their Efficiency (E) cores by comparison.
Pi-sized x86_64 Devlopment board (interfacinglinux.com)
Back in July, Radxa released a little block of pi-shaped madness containing NVMe storage, 2.5 Gigabit ethernet, and an Intel Alder Lake N100 CPU for under $100.
Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization with Ryzen 7000/8000 (phoronix.com)
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel release expected today there is a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request.