Silicon and the machines that make it, measured on our own bench.
Ledger Donjon used photon-emission microscopy and a 980 nm laser to set two bits of the RP2350's DEBUGEN register, restore Secure debug, and read the Hacking Challenge secret from OTP.
AMD's EPYC 9006 "Venice" white paper claims 2.24x Nvidia Vera's SPECrate 2026 throughput and 1.2x its per-core performance. The endnotes describe the tested hardware, the compilers and even the rack figure differently from the headlines.
Micron demos a 512GB DDR5-9200 RDIMM: 12TB per 24-slot server, volume production in 2H 2027.
ThinkCentre X Ultra: Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, 128GB not 192GB, 10GbE, four-unit clusters, 3100 euros in November.
A20 Pro on 2nm: 7-core GPU, 32 Neural Engine cores, 50 percent more memory bandwidth, USB still 10Gb/s.
Framework's local-AI guide: 32GB and 64GB tiers are now worth buying.
