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> seeing this weird Desktop ready to go before the 12 is a boggling decision There is substantial x86 market demand for local inference that can compete with A
by transpute 2y ago
> seeing this weird Desktop ready to go before the 12 is a boggling decision
There is substantial x86 market demand for local inference that can compete with Apple. AMD/Framework 128GB for $2K will be competitive.
> A mini-ITX board that's less modular than a commodity mini-ITX board
LLMs need LPDIMM for high-bandwidth memory and efficient power. mITX board allows interop with a galaxy of existing mITX cases, including NAS.
> same or worse firmware and driver stability or compatibility issues that still haven't been solved on the 7040-series 13 mainboards a year after shipping them, not because Framework is a terrible company but because their support from AMD has apparently been a nightmare.
We're inching towards AMD's 2026 target for open-source firmware, which will hopefully help all AMD OEMs.