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30 years. for 30 years the pc was the same thing: intel or amd inside, gpu next to it, and praying it doesn't crash. nvidia just ended that in a keynote. rtx spark. their first chip for personal computers. cpu, gpu and memory on a single piece of silicon.... show more

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adri1 day ago

an ai agent running 24/7 on your own machine with no subscription is a genuinely different pitch than what everyone else is selling

kai.1 day ago

that's the shift, everyone's been renting you the ai, this is the first one selling you the machine instead

robert.1 day ago

is this actually shipping or another "announced" thing that takes 2 years to show up

kai.1 day ago

laptops are expected this fall from several major brands, not just a concept this time

Ahhhh Sing23 hours ago

And it only costs $10,000

Charles19 hours ago

AI slop. You couldn't even write the advertisement yourself. smh

Seth19 hours ago

The rumors are that this has 5060 to 5070 performance and the prices are going to be 5k-7k and it will be lucky to get released by the end of the year. Just get a Strix/Gorgon Halo mini pc which is available right now.

z1 day ago

14mm is insane for what's inside that thing, my current laptop is basically a brick in comparison

kai.1 day ago

that's the part that got me too, cpu+gpu+128gb unified memory usually means a laptop you can't actually carry around

Chris19 hours ago

It won't matter if nobody can afford it.

Rich Ellefritz18 hours ago

Awesome. Can I get one that doesn't have Windows preinstalled?

Chief16 hours ago

This only looks amazing because it isn't running MS new AI OS... once that comes out this thing will take 5 min to boot barely run 5 chrome tabs. The software will always bloat to exceed the hardware advances.

Moses, Maimonides, Garcia22 hours ago

Apple leads. The rest follow.

Abe Burnett20 hours ago

I’m only bummed Apple hasn’t done this. I hate Windows, but I WANT these capabilities. Looks insane!

Undius Mundius17 hours ago

But can it run Crysis?

Autodiag.19 hours ago

If it can run a 120b what it has 256GB or 512GB of RAM? So what it'll cost 10k?

AlekseyD16 hours ago

Wow. I want my pc to be as locked as not upgradeable as possible. Want more ram? Fuck you. Want other CPU? Fuck you. That is what computing is all about man? To be an Nvidia bitch

JimZ15 hours ago

Sounds a lot like what Apple has been doing for the last 5 years with their PCs. Multiple CPU cores, GPU cores, Neural Engine cores, huge on chip cache, memory shared across all. Welcome to Macintosh.

Nin10dofan19 hours ago

Just like Apple lol

lefkosamos16 hours ago

He wants you to spend 10k$ on a device since now it’s AI and it requires 10x more memory than 5 years ago. While everything is, probably by design, on supply shortages and they continue to push for chips they don’t have

Walletcelinho.ton21 hours ago

Ja pra pra colocar linux? 👀😏

SOTO21 hours ago

Running WINDOWS?

Zzorg21 hours ago

A perfect gaming/ai machine for just $10k or there abouts. Thanks but I think I will wait this one out.

Santi1 day ago

running 120b params locally without a cloud call is the actual headline here not the gaming benchmarks

𝕸𝖔𝖗𝖌𝖆𝖓 𝕷𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗16 hours ago

Fuckin lame. What happened to real hardware? Real performance? Real progress???? Now its just lame fake frames, input delay, and the need to use Ai instead of RAW power. Fuckin pathetic.

5 Tonight15 hours ago

MacBooks will still win in battery life

alex22 hours ago

For sure

Phillip Lanos20 hours ago

would be dope to have a surface tablet with this ability

MrDaffy 🇫🇷 avec les bâtisseurs14 hours ago

AMD le fait déjà depuis 1an avec son Ryzen AI 395+ max et le nouveau Ryzen 495 qui sort emporte une Radeon 8065S et 192go de ram unifié. Couplé au SSD de phison avec leur aidaptiv+ et 90go de cash mémoire tu rentre des modèles de plus de 200B

Jörg Kachelofen20 hours ago

Great. I know now where my framework laptop will head mid-term👌😌

Chuck Overdrive15 hours ago

But can it fit on my watch and in my sunglasses as a combo unit?

Devyfox11117 hours ago

Why. Do you type like this. It's a little weird.

Stryker33619 hours ago

What???

David Peyton14 hours ago

@grok link the actual keynote

Chris18 hours ago

I wonder what’s on this specific chip 🤨

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15,983 views • 7 months ago

BOLT A GPU ONTO THIS $200 FANLESS BOARD AND IT DOES THE TWO THINGS A RASPBERRY PI PHYSICALLY CAN'T: LOCAL AI AND 4K TRANSCODING. that clip is a zimaboard with a graphics card plugged straight into its pcie slot. that slot is the whole point. a pi has gpio and usb, but no real pcie, so it tops out where this one starts. drop a gpu in and the tiny box suddenly does: ollama and local models with actual gpu acceleration, not cpu crawl plex or jellyfin transcoding several 4k streams at once, in hardware anything else that was "you need a real pc for that", on a fanless board the rest of the board backs it up: quad-core intel up to 3.6, dual sata, dual 2.5gbe, runs zimaos, linux, even windows. so one silent box becomes a nas, a media server, and a local ai node at the same time. no tower, no raspberry-pi ceiling, no cloud gpu rented by the hour. the uncomfortable part isn't that it takes a gpu. it's that "a pi can do it" quietly stopped being true the moment the workload needed a real pcie lane. follow RetroChainer for the small boxes that punch way above their size, and bookmark this before you buy a whole tower for one gpu job.

BOLT A GPU ONTO THIS $200 FANLESS BOARD AND IT DOES THE TWO THINGS A RASPBERRY PI PHYSICALLY CAN'T: LOCAL AI AND 4K TRANSCODING. that clip is a zimaboard with a graphics card plugged straight into its pcie slot. that slot is the whole point. a pi has gpio and usb, but no real pcie, so it tops out where this one starts. drop a gpu in and the tiny box suddenly does: ollama and local models with actual gpu acceleration, not cpu crawl plex or jellyfin transcoding several 4k streams at once, in hardware anything else that was "you need a real pc for that", on a fanless board the rest of the board backs it up: quad-core intel up to 3.6, dual sata, dual 2.5gbe, runs zimaos, linux, even windows. so one silent box becomes a nas, a media server, and a local ai node at the same time. no tower, no raspberry-pi ceiling, no cloud gpu rented by the hour. the uncomfortable part isn't that it takes a gpu. it's that "a pi can do it" quietly stopped being true the moment the workload needed a real pcie lane. follow RetroChainer for the small boxes that punch way above their size, and bookmark this before you buy a whole tower for one gpu job.

RetroChainer

24,813 views • 1 month ago

Your cloud agent runs $10–20 a day. This box runs OpenAI's 120B model for $0. Same workload. It just sits in a closet on AMD silicon. A Minisforum mini PC, Strix Halo, 128GB unified memory. The model lives entirely on-device. 56 tokens a second. No API key. Nothing leaves the network. Cloud only handles the exceptions now. Claude or OpenAI by routing, not by default. Everyone calls this "free." Wrong word. It's not free. It's owned. The bill just stops existing. The cloud was never the only option. It was the default nobody bothered to question.

Your cloud agent runs $10–20 a day. This box runs OpenAI's 120B model for $0. Same workload. It just sits in a closet on AMD silicon. A Minisforum mini PC, Strix Halo, 128GB unified memory. The model lives entirely on-device. 56 tokens a second. No API key. Nothing leaves the network. Cloud only handles the exceptions now. Claude or OpenAI by routing, not by default. Everyone calls this "free." Wrong word. It's not free. It's owned. The bill just stops existing. The cloud was never the only option. It was the default nobody bothered to question.

RetroChainer

13,925 views • 3 months ago

First hands-on with Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra. Microsoft is clearly positioning this as a new class of creator and AI laptop, powered by new NVIDIA silicon with an RTX GPU built for local AI, creative workflows, and gaming. A few standout specs: -New NVIDIA chip with RTX GPU -Up to 1 petaflop of AI compute -Up to 128GB unified memory -15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen -3:2 aspect ratio -262 PPI -Up to 2,000 nits peak HDR brightness -Less than 18mm thick

First hands-on with Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra. Microsoft is clearly positioning this as a new class of creator and AI laptop, powered by new NVIDIA silicon with an RTX GPU built for local AI, creative workflows, and gaming. A few standout specs: -New NVIDIA chip with RTX GPU -Up to 1 petaflop of AI compute -Up to 128GB unified memory -15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen -3:2 aspect ratio -262 PPI -Up to 2,000 nits peak HDR brightness -Less than 18mm thick

Chubby♨️

65,993 views • 3 months ago

NVIDIA'S BIGGEST COMPETITOR AMD BUILT A BOX THAT RUNS A 235B MODEL AND KILLS $200 OPENAI AND $200 CLAUDE CODE FOR $9 A MONTH amd's ryzen ai max+ 395 is the first x86 chip that runs a 200 billion parameter model on a single piece of silicon with 128gb of unified memory the gmktec evo-x2 runs qwen3 235b fully, deepseek v3 comfortably and llama 3.3 70b with headroom. on linux you get 110gb of usable vram out of 128gb amd claimed the chip beat an nvidia rtx 5080 by more than 3x on deepseek r1 inference. a lunchbox sized pc outrunning a $1,000 discrete gpu on a real ai workload a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and the box pays itself off in 9 to 10 months ollama installs in one command and claude code points at localhost so nothing leaves the machine and nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below

NVIDIA'S BIGGEST COMPETITOR AMD BUILT A BOX THAT RUNS A 235B MODEL AND KILLS $200 OPENAI AND $200 CLAUDE CODE FOR $9 A MONTH amd's ryzen ai max+ 395 is the first x86 chip that runs a 200 billion parameter model on a single piece of silicon with 128gb of unified memory the gmktec evo-x2 runs qwen3 235b fully, deepseek v3 comfortably and llama 3.3 70b with headroom. on linux you get 110gb of usable vram out of 128gb amd claimed the chip beat an nvidia rtx 5080 by more than 3x on deepseek r1 inference. a lunchbox sized pc outrunning a $1,000 discrete gpu on a real ai workload a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and the box pays itself off in 9 to 10 months ollama installs in one command and claude code points at localhost so nothing leaves the machine and nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below

starmex

93,580 views • 3 months ago

the CEO of NVIDIA just said the PC you use today will be gone, replaced by an AI supercomputer that lives in your house Jensen Huang stood on stage holding the machine and said it becomes less like a computer and more like R2-D2, a thing in your home that just does work for you all day he put it bluntly, this is as big as the day the phone became the smartphone and the wild part is the hardware to do it already exists and ships this year here is what he actually unveiled: > a desktop that runs a one trillion parameter AI model locally, 768GB of memory, sitting by your desk > agents that run 24/7 with no meter, no cloud bill, no rental, doing work while you sleep > NVIDIA and Microsoft rebuilding the PC from the ground up for the first time in 40 years > a full lineup, from a $249 chip to enterprise monsters, and almost nobody knows which one they actually need the hype is going to push everyone toward the biggest most expensive machine i wrote the honest breakdown, every NVIDIA AI box, what each really does, the real math, and which one is actually yours the full guide is in the article below

the CEO of NVIDIA just said the PC you use today will be gone, replaced by an AI supercomputer that lives in your house Jensen Huang stood on stage holding the machine and said it becomes less like a computer and more like R2-D2, a thing in your home that just does work for you all day he put it bluntly, this is as big as the day the phone became the smartphone and the wild part is the hardware to do it already exists and ships this year here is what he actually unveiled: > a desktop that runs a one trillion parameter AI model locally, 768GB of memory, sitting by your desk > agents that run 24/7 with no meter, no cloud bill, no rental, doing work while you sleep > NVIDIA and Microsoft rebuilding the PC from the ground up for the first time in 40 years > a full lineup, from a $249 chip to enterprise monsters, and almost nobody knows which one they actually need the hype is going to push everyone toward the biggest most expensive machine i wrote the honest breakdown, every NVIDIA AI box, what each really does, the real math, and which one is actually yours the full guide is in the article below

John Doe

194,375 views • 4 months ago

A guy I know was paying $200 a month for AI. ChatGPT. Claude. Midjourney. Then AMD put it in a box the size of a book. He bought one. Canceled every subscription. Now everything runs on his desk. No cloud. No monthly bill. For years we rented AI. Now some people own it.

A guy I know was paying $200 a month for AI. ChatGPT. Claude. Midjourney. Then AMD put it in a box the size of a book. He bought one. Canceled every subscription. Now everything runs on his desk. No cloud. No monthly bill. For years we rented AI. Now some people own it.

wluha

15,509 views • 3 months ago