The consumer GPU market isn't in crisis; it's in an undeclared "End of Life" phase. NVIDIA is deliberately starving the AIB supply chain (partners like MSI and Asus) to divert all of TSMC's silicon to AI chips for data centers, where margins are obscene.

MSI just declared 2026 will be a supply nightmare and is cutting production. They're closing the ecosystem. PC gaming and independent builders have become a nuisance for Jensen Huang's balance sheets.

I'm compiling logs and market data for a complete autopsy of this commercial architecture. I'll post the full video on my channel. The era of x86 and affordable consumer hardware is coming to an end under the blows of the CUDA monopoly.

https://www.youtube.com/@Rational-Tech-VeLL

#Hardware #NVIDIA #PCBuild #SysAdmin #TechNews #OpenSource #Microarchitecture #GPU #RationalTech

Fun issue: a performance regression between two Rust versions, only on dual socket Zen4c, and does not happen on dual socket Zen4, nor single socket socket Zen4c. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/154516

#RustLang #Bergamo #Genoa #Zen4 #AMD #NUMA #MicroArchitecture

We're so excited to announce that Dries Vanspauwen, @lesly & Jo Van Bulck received the uASC best paper award for the paper "WeMu: Effective and Scalable Emulation of Microarchitectural Weird Machines"! Congratulations! 🎉

Check it out here: https://uasc.cc/proceedings26/uasc26-vanspauwen.pdf

#uasc26 #microarchitecture #security #conference

"AMD publishes first Zen 6 document detailing ground-up redesign on 2nm process node — brand-new 8-wide CPU core with strong vector capabilities"

Sounds like they're leaning heavily into 'datacenter' with this one.

#AMD #Zen6 #Microarchitecture #CPU

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-pubs-first-zen-6-document-for-developers-a-brand-new-8-wide-cpu-core-with-strong-vector-capabilities

You have less than two weeks left to submit your paper for the final submission cycle at uASC 2026!

📅 Submission Deadline: November 4, 2025
👉 https://www.uasc.cc

#microarchitecture #security #conference #uasc26

I've been going around to all my little x64 systems running
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help
to see what Intel #microarchitecture they support. So far, everything is either #x86_64_v2 or #x86_64_v3

Not too much of a surprise, given the age of the equipment. I'm very curious as to whether #CachyOS or something else will get a little more performance out of them. Based on reviews I've seen ClearLinux really did run faster, but it's too late to mess with it.

A Linux user is never satisfied.

The #microarchitecture of #Intel, #AMD, and #VIA #CPU’s - An optimization guide for #assembly #programmers and compiler makers by Agner Fog

https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf (pdf)

Only one month left to submit your paper for the first submission cycle at uASC 2026!

📅 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025
👉 https://uasc.cc/

#microarchitecture #security #conference #uasc26