Patrick Kennedy

Scottsdale

I do tech things @ServeTheHome Chief Analyst for https://t.co/GA7x3f8Ac9 https://t.co/7sCknLYWql and the Axautik Group LLC

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CXL AI and Liquid Cooled Gigabyte Servers at Computex 2025

19 hours ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

At Computex 2025, we saw a lot of servers. Gigabyte’s booth had a good mix of them, including a few unique designs. We saw a neat CXL and NVMe server, along with liquid-cooled and air-cooled AI servers. There were even some neat multi-node servers, like a HPC-focused liquid-cooled 1U 2-node server and a 10-node 3U server. Gigabyte R284-A91-AAL3 CXL and NVMe ServerGigabyte showed off the R284-A91-AAL3 with two Intel Xeon 6900 series processors with a twist in this 2U E3.S platform.
Broadcom Tomahawk 6 Launched for 1.6TbE Generation

3 days ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Today Broadcom is launching its next-generation of switch ASICs with the Broadcom Tomahawk 6 series. This is a new 102.4Tbps switch that can handle up to 64 ports of 1.6TbE. Yes, we are now replacing the “Gigabit” with the “Terabit” Ethernet port era. The two new ASICs, the Broadcom BCM78910 and BCM78914 offer two different configurations for different applications.
Cornelis CN5000 400Gbps Omni-Path Launched with UltraEthernet Roadmap

4 days ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Cornelis Networks, the company that has taken over Intel Omni-Path when Intel divested the technology, now has a new 400Gbps generation. The Cornelis CN5000 brings 400Gbps Omni-Path technology to the AI and HPC markets. At the same time, the company shared a vision for the future with the adoption of UltraEthernet for next-generations of products. Cornelis CN5000 400Gbps Omni-Path Launched400Gbps networking has ramped very quickly. A big driver in that has been the AI build-out.
Hot Chips 2025 Preliminary Schedule Released

5 days ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Hot Chips 2025 is less than three months away, and so we now have the preliminary schedule. There are new CPUs, new networking talks, lots of AI chips, and a lot more. Hot Chips 2025 Preliminary Schedule ReleasedMonday kicks off with various CPU sessions. Hopefully Intel’s talk is Clearwater Forest (since that is after Sierra Forest) and we also get a next-gen IBM POWER talk.
ASRock Rack EPYC4000D4U AMD EPYC 4005 Motherboard Review

5 days ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

The time has come to get to our ASRock Rack EPYC4000D4U motherboard review. This is a motherboard designed to bring server-class features to AMD’s socket AM5 CPUs. It is also just a neat motherboard that we have featured previously, so it seemed like it was time to show this one off.
GIGABYTE G383-R80-AAP1 AMD Instinct MI300A Server Review

6 days ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Sometimes, you just get to take apart cool servers. A few months ago They Let Me Bring a Camera Into a Top Classified US Supercomputer, El Capitan. That top-end supercomputer uses AMD Instinct MI300A APUs, combining CPU and GPU cores from AMD’s EPYC and Instinct lines along with HBM3 memory to make perhaps the fastest APU around.
Minisforum MS-A2 Review An Almost Perfect Homelab System

1 week ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

With the Minisforum MS-A2, we get what is going to be an almost perfect homelab system for many of our readers. This is an AMD update to the wildly popular Intel-based MS-01 and something very different from the MS-A1. There are still a few Minisforum quirks, but largely this is a straight upgrade to the MS-01 and the company addressed several of our big feedback areas on the MS-01, like the SSD switch of death.
This is the NVIDIA MGX PCIe Switch Board with ConnectX-8 for 8x PCIe GPU Servers

1 week ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

The 8x PCIe GPU AI server is changing in a big way. During the NVIDIA Computex 2025 keynote, we heard about Enterprise AI Factories, and a key component was dropped by NVIDIA to OEMs just before the show. That is the new NVIDIA MGX PCIe Switch Board with ConnectX-8. This board replaces the traditional PCIe switch board used in 8x GPU servers with bundled NVIDIA networking.
This is the ASPEED AST2700 Next-Gen BMC

1 week ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

At Computex 2025, we saw the new ASPEED AST2700 BMC. These processors may seem like lower-cost and lower-excitement chips, but they go into almost every server out there. The next generation of baseboard management controllers adds more performance and more integration. This is the ASPEED AST2700 Next-Gen BMCIn the Pegatron booth at Computex 2025, we saw the DCM2700-01, which is an ASPEED AST2700 OCP DC-SCM 2.1 module. Here is what the new card looks like.
Sanmina Buys ZT Systems Manufacturing from AMD

2 weeks ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Last year, AMD Bought ZT Systems in a Surprise Move. The motivation quickly became apparent as AMD needed to move into rack-scale and data center scale infrastructure, not just individual systems and 8 GPU baseboards. ZT Systems both designed and manufactured these systems for hyper-scalers like Microsoft Azure. Along with that $4.9B deal announcement, AMD also noted that it would be selling the ZT Systems manufacturing business.