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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.

1 week ago | servethehome.com | Rohit Kumar

It has been some time since we covered a new DPU, but the new Xsight Labs E1 DPU looks cool. The DPU comes with either 32 or 64 Arm Neoverse N2 cores, up to 2x 400Gbps networking, and 32x configurable PCIe Gen5 x16 lanes. Xsight Labs E1 DPU OverviewThe Xsight Labs E1 DPU is designed to be very flexible. Built around Arm Neoverse N2 cores, the SoC has a number of accelerators as well as high-speed SerDes. There is also a DDR5 memory complex and more onboard. Here is the chip’s block diagram.

1 week ago | servethehome.com | Cliff Robinson

AMD held a briefing last week on the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series parts as well as the AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 series GPUs. We can now share some of the updates on the upcoming parts that we expect to arrive this summer. New AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 SeriesThe AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 series extend AMD’s workstation lead over Intel’s solutions by updating platforms to Zen 5 with higher memory frequencies.

1 week ago | servethehome.com | Cliff Robinson

The PCI-SIG released the PCIe 7.0 specifications for next-generation interconnects. We had this one on the list for a few days ago, but AMD’s event ended up being too big. As a result, we are playing some Father’s Day catch up (also happy Father’s Day to all the dads of STH!)PCI-SIG Releases PCIe 7.0 Specifications and Optical PCIe 6.4 and 7.0The new generation is set to deliver 128.0 GT/s in raw bit rate. That will mean up to 512GB/s of bidirectional bandwidth via a PCIe Gen7 x16 slot.