Industry

24K gold fanless mini PC debuts with $1.7 million price tag

French PC maker Kubb has produced a custom fanless mini PC with a case made from solid 24K gold. The unit, based on the company’s fanless mini PC, is a 120 mm cube and uses its case as a heatsink to vent CPU heat without a cooling fan. The gold version weighs about 13 kg and costs about $1.7 million, far above the standard model’s 1,595 euros.

AI & Enterprise

Lightbits launches KV cache engine to boost GPU performance

Lightbits Labs has launched its AI inference software engine, Infera, aimed at improving inference performance and cost efficiency. The company says Infera expands KV cache data beyond limited high-bandwidth memory attached to GPUs and targets large language model operations with long context windows or many concurrent sessions. It manages KV cache across GPU memory, DRAM and NVMe storage using predictive prefetching and supplies context in small blocks.