Reading up on AMD

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World Labs is Joining AMD
The Hacker News post titled 'World Labs is Joining AMD' asserts that the company World Labs has entered into a relationship with semiconductor manufacturer AMD.
Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs
Speculative decoding in vLLM enables vLLM to verify multiple draft tokens per target-model pass, boosting throughput on AMD GPUs depending on drafting method and acceptance rate.
What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 [LWN.net]
Ulrich Drepper’s LWN series introduces programmers to modern memory hardware, explaining DRAM, caches, NUMA, and how hardware limits affect software performance.
The AI data center deals that no one can verify
AI infrastructure deals lack standardized verification, making headline numbers appear as binding commitments when they are actually contingent options.
Run AI Models Locally: A New Laptop Era Begins - IEEE Spectrum
The push to run AI models locally is driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades, with new NPUs, unified memory, and Microsoft's AI Foundry.