Patrick Kennedy

6 days ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Every Saturday, the best of STH is delivered directly to our subscribers’ inboxes. This weekly newsletter is something I personally do every week, even when traveling. Just to give you some context, I am in the middle of doing 15 flights in 18 days, so I get summer travel. The goal of the newsletter we started a few years ago was to update our readers with some highlights for the week. Not everyone has time to read STH every day.

1 week ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Today we have an update to a class of systems that frankly checks a lot of boxes of feedback we received on our previous review. Qotom, makers of The Everything Fanless Home Server, Firewall Router, and NAS Appliance, took the feedback from that article and video and made a new system with 10Gbase-T networking instead of SFP+ and is using the new Intel Core 3 N355 processor for notably more CPU performance. The system is called the Qotom Q11032H6, as the company has rough naming conventions.

2 weeks ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Today, AMD launched its Instinct MI350 series, but the more important announcements are probably what is coming in 2026. AMD is moving to a what appears to be a double-wide rack for its next-gen MI400 AI racks, adopting open ecosystem standards like UALink and UltraEthernet. AMD is going big for its next generation. Next-Gen AMD Instinct MI400 AI Racks Go Double-WidePerhaps most important in this is that the MI400 is not far off. This is next year’s AI infrastructure from AMD.

2 weeks ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

Today, AMD launched its Instinct MI350 series, but the more important announcements are probably what is coming in 2026. AMD is moving to a what appears to be a double-wide rack for its next-gen MI400 AI racks, adopting open ecosystem standards like UALink and UltraEthernet. AMD is going big for its next generation. Next-Gen AMD Instinct MI400 AI Racks Go Double-WidePerhaps most important in this is that the MI400 is not far off. This is next year’s AI infrastructure from AMD.

2 weeks ago | servethehome.com | Patrick Kennedy

The AMD Instinct MI350 is the company’s new series to go head-to-head with the NVIDIA B200 generation. The new chips come in two flavors, the AMD Instinct MI350X and AMD Instinct MI355X. Today, we will get into the new series, some of the performance claims, and even some of the future plans. AMD Instinct MI350 Series Launch with the MI350X and MI355XFirst off, a check on where we are at in the journey. In 2023, AMD shipped the Instinct MI300 series.