TechEpiphany

@GattoSeh hopefully they also fix modern titles

@TechEpiphanyYT Perhaps there is hope

🔻AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2 for Polaris & Vega Release Notes amd.com/en/resources/s…

The genius of Germany: Thinking about forcing citizens to work until 70. Meanwhile: • They spend almost half of their “citizen’s income” budget - rent support and minimal income - on non-citizens. • Germany is losing around 10,000 industrial jobs per month, with even more jobs likely to be replaced by AI. • Many people who worked their entire lives now have to collect deposit bottles in the streets just to survive. • They wasted hundreds of billions on “green” energy, only to end up with some of the most expensive and still among the dirtiest electricity production in Europe. • And on top of that, they sent around €100 billion to Ukraine. A country that punishes its own workers, destroys its own industry, and calls it progress.

🔻 Ryzen Master 3.1.0 - Release Notes Added support for the Curve Shaper feature – a fine‑grain voltage/frequency tuning capability that allows selective voltage adjustments across temperature and frequency bands; applicable to the AMD Ryzen™ 9000 Series. amd.com/en/resources/s…

At CES, @AMD pulled the cover off the Ryzen AI Halo, a first-party mini PC built on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor and aimed directly at the NVIDIA DGX Spark. Now we know it is priced at $3,999 with 128GB of unified memory and a 2TB SSD, with pre-orders expected next month (June). AMD also confirmed the next generation, the @AMDRyzen AI Max PRO 400 Series, code-named Gorgon Halo, as the follow-on platform. The market AMD is chasing, local AI development and small-scale on-device inference, is only just forming. The prize is owning the developer on-ramp, the desktop box where builders prototype, fine-tune, and run models without renting cloud capacity. When a category is this young, a second credible vendor matters. And AMD is showing up as a real competitor, not a token entrant. Shipping a first-party platform rather than leaving it to partners is a signal of intent. So is supporting both Windows and Linux with full ROCm. In a space where every developer workflow looks a little different, meeting people where they already work is a smarter early bet than it looks. What about performance? On paper, the Ryzen AI Halo and DGX Spark are closely matched, and the early AMD numbers against Spark look strong. But those are vendor claims on a short list of models, and they need independent validation. Winning a benchmark is the easy part. The real test is performance across a wide and constantly shifting set of models, plus staying current as new models, workflows, and inference stacks land almost every week. That ongoing support is where the @NVIDIA CUDA ecosystem has a long head start, and it is the bar AMD has to clear. Why does any of this matter in 2026? Agents. Autonomous agents run continuously and consume far more tokens than chat-style interactions. Recent Signal65 research (signal65.com/research/ai/th…) on the economics of agentic AI found agentic workloads burn roughly 4x to 15x more tokens than standard chat, and the trend points well beyond that. When consumption scales like that, per-token cloud pricing becomes a real line item, and owning local inference capacity stops being a hobbyist choice and starts being an economic one. That brings us to the Ryzen AI Max 400. The CPU and GPU look like a measured step over the current part, so memory is the key difference. Moving up to 192GB of unified memory is the spec that counts, because memory capacity decides which models you can actually fit and run locally. That is a significant jump over the 128GB ceiling on both the current Halo and the DGX Spark. AMD is aiming for the third quarter of 2026 for the Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 platform, so the bigger unknown is price. The first-party Halo at $3,999 undercuts the $4,699 Spark, though not by the wide margin some expected, and Ryzen AI Max 400 pricing has not been disclosed. In the current memory market, that is a genuine variable, and hitting that third-quarter window is not a given either. Local AI is shifting from a curiosity to a real platform decision, and AMD just made it a two-horse race. Are you planning to run inference locally in 2026, or is the cloud still the default for your team? I would like to hear how you are thinking about it.

Alibaba $BABA just announced today a new AI chips that is says is 3x more powerful than its last chip "The Zhenwu M890 delivers three times the performance of the current Zhenwu 810E, Alibaba said, adding that the new processor has 144 GB GPU memory and interchip bandwidth of 800 GB per second." - CNBC

Today, we announced more than $10B in investment across Taiwan’s ecosystem to scale advanced packaging and accelerate next-gen AI infrastructure, from 6th Gen EPYC CPUs codenamed “Venice” to our Helios rack-scale platform including Instinct MI450X GPUs, with multi-gigawatt deployments beginning in 2H 2026. Additionally, AMD and TSMC have hit another major production milestone, with Venice EPYC CPUs ramping on TSMC 2nm technology in Taiwan with future plans to ramp production at TSMC’s Arizona Fab. More on the news: bit.ly/4tJrUkR

@HotHardware lol, they were not even trying

At last, the gold-colored Trump Mobile T1 phone is emerging from the fog of delays, patriotic branding, and US-made claims, and it now appears to be heading to preorder customers starting this week. hothardware.com/news/trump-mob…

Silicon Valley talks about AI like a priesthood. China talks about AI like a factory. That is the real difference. Alibaba is not just releasing another model. It is building the full stack: chips, cloud, models, service platforms, and agentic applications. Qwen3.7-Max, custom inference chips, agent infrastructure — this is not a chatbot beauty contest. It is industrialization. While Silicon Valley performs anxiety about the “China threat,” China is calmly turning AI into manufacturing capacity. The West still wants AI to remain a gated priesthood of capital, compute, patents, and elite labs. China is making it part of the machine, making it an infrastructure that supports the operation of the entire society. That is why they panic. Not because China is copying them. Because China is turning what they wanted to monopolize into something reproducible, scalable, and industrial.

@MattWalshBlog that is the culture Europe is importing by the millions

The most horrifying thing in this article, out of the dozens of nightmarish details, is that some of these men are selling their children to family members. Imagine that your relative needs help and you offer it only on the condition that they sell their children to you as slaves. And then imagine that they actually do it. Totally unthinkable all around. But this is the “culture” in places like Afghanistan. And it’s why we should have realized and accepted a long time ago that some cultures are just evil. Some people are just barbarians. You lock your door and don’t let them inside, ever, period.

@MatthiasMartn they can't afford a AC:Shadows-like flop

@TechEpiphanyYT It is going to be interesting to see how woke GTA VI turns out to be. It has been in development since peak woke but on the other hand it has been a number of years now since culture slowly began to turn back in the other direction.

China has the world's most vibrant #AI ecosystem, The Paper reported AMD CEO Lisa Su as saying in her keynote speech at the AMD AI Developers Conference in Shanghai today. More than 1 billion people use AI worldwide every day, and that is expected to reach 5 billion by 2030, Su noted. @AMD @LisaSu

The New AMD EPYC™ 8005 Server CPUs: Big Performance. Low Power. Small Footprint. amd.com/en/blogs/2026/…

AMD Schola v2.1 is now available! Train RL agents in #UnrealEngine with deeper integration & expanded scale. 🌲 StateTree integration for training & inference. ☸️ Kubernetes support for distributed training. 📊 Stronger Minari workflows. Learn more 👇 gpuopen.com/learn/announci…

🔻AMD Ryzen Chipset Driver 8.02.18.557 • General bug fixes • Adds AMD AMS Mailbox Driver support • Adds AMD S0i3 Filter Driver support Bugfix drivers: • AMD PSP Driver • AMD AMS Mailbox Driver • AMD S0i3 Filter Driver • AMD SFH 1.1 Driver • AMD PMF-8000 Series Driver • AMD HSMP Driver • AMD PMF Ryzen AI MAX 300 Series Driver • AMD PMF Ryzen AI 300 Series Driver 2 amd.com/en/resources/s…

Linux 7.0.9 released 🔥 TL;DR • AMD: major VCN/VCE/GFX11/SMU fixes • Intel: Xe + IPU6 + AtomISP fixes • Qualcomm: better Adreno GPU recovery • DRM PRIME UAF race fixed • sched_ext + cgroup deadlock fixes • virtio-vsock / SCTP / batman-adv stability & security fixes 🖥️ Graphics / Display • AMD: VCN3 / VCN4 video decode fixes → avoids overflow / out-of-bounds parsing issues in AMDGPU video engines • AMD: VCE / IB parsing hardening → prevents bad address patches and adds bounds checks in command parsing • AMD: GFX11+ APU fix → avoids reset-related failures when unloading/reloading AMDGPU on newer APUs • AMD: SMU v14.0.x power-management fix → corrects FeatureCtrlMask handling on newer AMD GPUs • AMD: Hawaii / Radeon legacy fixes → improves memory-clock workaround & revision handling on older GCN cards • AMD: display pipeline precision fix → restores better dithering / >10bpc output precision • Intel: Xe driver fixes → rejects invalid PAT index usage & fixes GGTT BO leak • All vendors: DRM PRIME handle race fix → prevents potential use-after-free • Broadcom / Raspberry Pi V3D: prevents malicious userspace extension chain from pegging CPU core forever • Qualcomm / Adreno: GPU recovery fix → hung GPUs now recover properly instead of staying stuck • Apple/x86 Macs: Apple Touch Bar DRM vmalloc fix • TI AM69: DisplayPort regulator GPIO fix → improves DP / DP-to-HDMI adapter stability ⚙️ CPU / Scheduler / Power • All vendors: sched_ext fix → avoids stale runqueue state during bypass load balancing • All vendors: cgroup deadlock fix → prevents systemd/container teardown hangs • All vendors: mmap/VMA cleanup fix → avoids invalid unmap attempts • AMD/Xilinx Versal NET: EDAC memory-controller leak fix • Qualcomm ARM64: PCIe reference-clock suspend fix 🌐 Networking / Virtualization • Virtio-vsock: fixes accept-queue leak → avoids listeners eventually rejecting all connections • Virtio-vsock: fixes monitor/tap payload handling for non-linear packets • Vsock: fixes socket-buffer clamp ordering • SCTP: fixes dangerous type-confusion path • batman-adv mesh: fixes teardown races & integer overflow issues 💾 Storage / Filesystems • SPI/controller cleanup fixes → safer driver unbind/rebind handling • Embedded/ARM regulator & resource cleanup fixes → fewer leaks and invalid cleanup paths 📷 Media / Cameras / Video • Intel IPU6: fixes ERR_PTR dereference in probe path • Intel AtomISP: disables unsafe private IOCTLs • Qualcomm Iris video: fixes use-after-free in buffer release • Raspberry Pi / Sony IMX283: fixes long hangs when restarting camera streams • Rockchip camera interface: fixes NULL-deref risk on stream start 🔐 Security / Hardening • AMDGPU parser hardening → additional bounds checks in video/command parsers • DRM PRIME race fix → prevents potential UAF • V3D validation fix → blocks infinite-loop CPU DoS • SCTP type-confusion fix → blocks dangerous indirect-call path • AtomISP unsafe IOCTLs disabled → smaller attack surface cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern…

@AMDRadeon @washbearstudio My buddy asked for release notes for Vega Drivers and never heard back...

@washbearstudio Hi there, we would be happy to assist you! You can visit AMD Support to learn more or contact a member of our Support team by completing an Online Service Request: amd.com/en/forms/conta…

Please @AMDRadeon fix your drivers. PLEASE. Love you folks, but we're trying to develop a game here and our 7900 XTXs won't stop crashing.

Microsoft Advanced Shader Delivery now supports more AMD GPUs! Enabled with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2: 🎮 AMD RDNA 3, 3.5, & 4 GPUs. ⚡ Reduce shader stutter & load times by up to 95%. Learn how to add ASD to your game via AgilitySDK 👇 devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/advanc…

@rjkslfpwntxq Never!!!!

@TechEpiphanyYT Just forget about Vega and life will be better!

Fun fact: Vega 20 / gfx906 added new packed dot-product instructions, including V_DOT4_I32_I8 and V_DOT4_U32_U8 that would make FSR 4 support possible