Ryan Smith

With NVIDIA's incorporation of Groq LPUs into the Vera Rubin rackscale platform, it marks a major shift in the future of inference hardware in the NVIDIA ecosystem. There's a lot of ground to cover, so please check out my full write-up over at STH: servethehome.com/decoding-the-f…

GTC 2026's keynote is kicking off in a few minutes. Come join STH's live blog coverage of the presentation: servethehome.com/nvidia-gtc-202…

NVIDIA's GTC 2026 is upon us! Come join @ServeTheHome for our live blog coverage of the opening keynote and the many new AI technologies to be announced. The keynote kicks off in just under 2 hours, at 11am PT/18:00, so be sure to check back then. servethehome.com/nvidia-gtc-202…

@compusemble Did GDeflate ever see significant usage in the PC space? Or are we essentially going to be jumping right to Zstd?

DirectStorage 1.4 is now in preview, and it adds support for zstd. From the results on the DirectStorage Github repo, it seems pretty impressive. Bandwidth for decompressing zstd on the CPU is almost as high as GPU GDeflate, but zstd has a better compression ratio.

Sadly, I didn't get to go on this trip. As a GPU aficionado, I am more than a bit envious that Patrick got to get his hands-on so much high-end hardware.😂

@DanMatte The care Apple gives to color space issues keeps tempting me towards switching to a Mac for desktop usage. The hardware is expensive, but having all the different color spaces just work is pretty awesome

And it goes without saying: $68 billion in a single quarter is a ridiculous amount of revenue for a chip design firm. It's well-earned, but I still remember when their revenue for the entire year was $5b; that was only a decade ago!

This has traditionally been a very stable and high-margin segment. But it has exploded in the last two quarters like it never has before. Between RTX PRO cards flying off the shelves, and DGX Spark right behind that, this is by far the busiest NV's ProViz division has ever been

NVIDIA reporting record revenues for Q4'FY26 is basically business as usual for the company at this point. Their professional visualization revenue was quite the surprise, however: at $1.3 billion, it grew by 74% in a single quarter servethehome.com/nvidia-reports…

@IanCutress Oh good. I'm glad you're finally getting to go on your trip to Japan. Do remember to come back, please!

At the airport, going to spend two weeks in 🇯🇵 for some R&R. Okinawa, Osaka, and Tokyo. Despite being a techie, will be my first visit!

@IanCutress Any signs on how much of that split is EPYC versus Instinct revenue these days?

Big boy data center, over $5b for the quarter.

AMD 25Q4 Financials. First $10b revenue quarter.

@aschilling It's Etherium mining all over again. Better hire some security now to keep your hardware archives safe.

Since there appears to be a demand for DDR3 in certain markets, I have opened my old treasure chest. Any offers?

@n176053 My use cases are terrible for OLED anyhow. Too much text, spreadsheets, and other static elements.

@RyanSmithAT Unfortunately, the only OLED model that met the requirements was an Asus ROG monitor, but it had a terrible stand and a glossy finish.

I'm catching up on reading CES announcements this morning. This was an especially good year for monitors: high refresh 5K 27-inch, higher density 3:2 panels. 4K OLED panels with RGB stripes. Nothing outright groundbreaking, but a much-needed focus on quality - especially text

@dstockwell23 >=192 DPI means that you can run with 4x (200%) scaling. That is very helpful for dealing with legacy low-DPI applications

@RyanSmithAT why do you want such a high dpi? seems overkill.

@jaguar36 200% (integer) scaling helps to alleviate a lot of those issues. It's not perfect (you still want scaling-friendly applications), but it's a lot better. It's fractional scaling where things get problematic

@RyanSmithAT Windows scaling sucks, makes high dpi screens worthless. 4k at 30” is the max for me

Still, I'd give a kidney for a 24-inch 3840x2400 panel with dHDR1000 and a refresh rate of at least 120Hz

At some point here I'll have to finally replace my calibrated 16:10 display. With the current options coming down the pipe, this will likely be the year. Looks like I'm still stuck between picking 3:2 at 60Hz, or 16:9 for higher refresh rates + proper HDR, though.

Intel Fellow Tom “TAP” Petersen dives into a new animation error metric in PresentMon that’s designed to more accurately capture interruptions in gaming smoothness. Check out our YouTube channel for his full #CES2026 session on the #IntelArc B390 GPU from #IntelCoreUltra Series 3.

@Cowymtber I can't say I have any qualms with how AMD is executing on data center hardware development right now. They're throwing basically every manufacturing tech available to them at the matter. ROCm needs more work, but I don't know what they could do better on the hardware side

@RyanSmithAT Ryan, longtime AMD fan, custom system builder, and shareholder here, since 1999. Outside Loop Computers, Longmont, CO I feel like Lisa Su has perhaps missed the chance for AMD at this point. AMD needed radical risk taking in their designs. Chiplets were awesome. Now?

Having sat through all three major chipmaker keynotes yesterday, here's a quick rating/review of the technical aspects of their broadcasts. NVIDIA: B Intel: D AMD: C