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Minisforum's 192GB Gorgon Halo Mini PC Is A Local AI Powerhouse

Unveiled at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Minisforum has officially announced the MS-S1 Max-P495, an ultra-compact mini-workstation designed to put serious local AI horsepower on your desk. Powered by AMD's flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, and a generous heap of 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 unified memory, this compact system is effectively a mini desktop powerhouse for local LLM inference and AI development.

160GB Of Allocatable VRAM for Massive Local Models

Traditionally, AI developers would be forced to shop and buy multiple high-end enterprise GPUs to get high VRAM capacities. Now, however, we're seeing more mini PCs, desktops (like the Framework Desktop), and even some laptop options flex unified memory architectures. In this case, Minisforum's new mini PC allows users to allocate up to 160GB of system RAM strictly as graphics memory. Doing so opens the door for running hefty 70B+ parameter models and heavily quantized multi-hundred-billion...

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Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and says the lawsuit made him sad

Sam Altman said he was very sad about Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit and that his first reaction was that the allegations sounded egregious, while OpenAI has moved to have the case dismissed. California voids non-compete agreements, so an employer losing engineers has to litigate afterwards rather than restrain them in

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More plugs beat more power, a Finnish charger maker says

A white paper from the Finnish charger maker Kempower argues that adding connectors raises site utilisation far more than adding power, with eight-plug sites reaching almost 10% against 2% for two-plug sites. Every AFIR target is expressed in kilowatts or kilometres rather than in numbers of connectors. A Finnish charger

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Welcome to Your Keyboard-Free Future. This Jazzy AI Microphone Is All You Need Now

For years, tech companies have been telling us that voice will eventually supersede touchscreens as the primary way we interact with our technology, but it’s never quite happened — and I’d come to doubt whether it ever actually will. At IFA in Berlin, I saw something that made me

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Shop These 30+ Labor Day TV Deals to Upgrade Your Entertainment Setup Without Overspending - CNET

If you’re shopping for a new TV, Labor Day is one of the best times to get one at a lower price. Labor Day sales are now live, and stores like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Samsung have slashed prices on everything from cheap 4K sets to high-end OLED

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Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and says the lawsuit made him sad

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Welcome to Your Keyboard-Free Future. This Jazzy AI Microphone Is All You Need Now

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