Antid (@antisadh) “AN AMD ENGINEER SHIPS A PALM-SIZED MINI PC THAT RUNS 235B MODELS FOR $9/MONTH AN” — TopicDigg

AN AMD ENGINEER SHIPS A PALM-SIZED MINI PC THAT RUNS 235B MODELS FOR $9/MONTH AND KILLS A $200/MONTH OPENAI OR CLAUDE CODE SUB at CES 2026 in las vegas, AMD CEO lisa su walked on stage with a small black box behind her, not a server, not a data center render, a mini PC the size of a hardcover book a few months later in shanghai she walked up to that same device and signed it with her name, the box is the gmktec EVO-X2, $1,700 once, AMD ryzen AI max+ 395 inside the chip is the first x86 silicon ever built that runs a 200 billion parameter model on one piece of hardware, 128GB unified memory, 110GB usable VRAM on linux, no separate graphics card it runs qwen 3 235B fully and smoothly, plus deepseek v3 and llama 3.3 70B with no quantization, kills a $440/month claude code, chatgpt, gemini and cursor stack for $9 in electricity setup takes 3 commands and 15 minutes, ollama loads the model, claude code points to localhost with one environment variable, same interface, zero per token fees, nothing ever leaves the machine the window is open, follow and bookmark before it closes