3/16/2026 at 6:41:59 AM
by gravelturnip88
3/18/2026 at 9:04:03 PM
For those that care, this blog post was clearly authored by an LLM.by chilipepperhott
3/18/2026 at 9:16:52 PM
Ahhhh I always feel like I was owned when I find that out, I was skimming through it like "wow this is a lot, this is a long blog post"by ge96
3/18/2026 at 9:05:37 PM
Solid analysis, these quotes were particularly damning imo:"You don’t accidentally forget to disclose that your memory is split into two non-unified pools. That’s a deliberate omission of the single most important architectural limitation of the device."
"Read that filename. layer_27_36. That’s not dynamic hot neuron routing, that’s static layer assignment"
by danielrmay
3/18/2026 at 8:59:51 PM
To the author’s point, I was able to run Qwen3.5 122B at close to 20 tokens/s on a Ryzen AI Max 395+ mini PC with 128GB (64/64 split, for some reason it needs a lot of system RAM).by ricardobeat
3/18/2026 at 8:37:34 PM
New meaning to the words "hot pocket", given how toasty that Cix CD8180 is!And that's at idle!! (15w) https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/minisforum-stuffs-ent...
Now add two NPUs. Personally I'm for it. But it is going to need quite the cooling. A bunch of Frore Airjet mems devices?
by jauntywundrkind
3/18/2026 at 9:32:13 PM
Based on the exploded views I found and some text references in a product page or something I can't quite remember it uses a vapor chamber and a dual fan configuration. If you go frame by frame on the exploded view animation it can be seen.by gravelturnip88