Cliff Robinson

Kioxia has a new high-end client SSD family. The Kioxia XG10 Series moves the M.2-based XG line to PCIe Gen5. This generation has capacities up to 4TB, and sequential performance figures of up to 14GB/s sequential reads and 12GB/s sequential writes, making for a big generational change. For context, we previously reviewed the KIOXIA XG8 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD. XG10 is the follow-on performance client line.

Dan Cornwell knocks out this brilliant 28-panel page in which Dredd fights a gang of creeps. It’s a knock-down, drag-out brawl, which leaves Dredd a loser. Creeps cast him into a central pit, what they call The Cauldron, where all the dregs of the Oubliette end up. I love the panels in which Dredd is plummeting, where Cornwell stretches out Dredd’s head to sell the speed at which he’s travelling.

While we are out building fun clusters, Gigabyte is doing something really interesting. It has a 40-node cluster with 320 cores 1.28TB of memory, 80x SSDs, and 40 (integrated) GPUs in a single 1U chassis. We encountered Gigabyte’s hardware on display at Computex 2026, and it is quite neat.

Samsung Electronics announced mass production of the PM1763, its first PCIe 6.0 enterprise SSD built for AI and HPC server environments. We are just starting the transition to PCIe Gen6 systems with some hyper-scale CPUs, NVIDIA Vera, and soon AMD EPYC Venice launching with support. As a result, we need devices like SSDs to take advantage of the new, higher-speed interface.

The popular Geekbench platform has a new version. Geekbench 7 is now out, and at STH, we have been trying it for the past few days. We thought it was time for a quick post after this week’s AMD Advancing AI 2026. The new version has updated CPU and GPU benchmarks along with NVIDIA CUDA support.

A few weeks ago, we covered Qualcomm’s acquisition of Modular at

Damn, what a cover. Avoid the magazine aisle, Earthlets, lest you be drawn in by magnetic thrillpower!

Arm announced a new compute subsystem. The Arm Neoverse CSS N4 brings up to 128 cores, PCIe Gen7, and more to future servers. We have seen Neoverse CSS in more products over the past few years, so this is an important launch for the industry.

This week, d-Matrix and NVIDIA had a big announcement. The companies announced that d-Matrix would bring its next-generation XPUs to the NVLink Fusion platform. A closer look at the announcement revealed a few interesting details.

Today, Qualcomm announced that it will (finally) support Linux on Snapdragon, with a few caveats. At the same time, the path forward is close, with both Debian and Ubuntu support planned for 2026. This is a highly anticipated feature, so it is one that we are excited about since we run a lot of Ubuntu at STH.