@mylifcc: Jensen Huang's $6,950 desktop supercomputer DGX Spark hasn't even warmed up yet, and open-source hardware maker Sipeed has already stabbed it in the back? Sipeed just officially revealed the MaixStation's pricing to Tom's Hardware: it's expected to cost only $3,999! Same 12...

Jensen Huang's $6,950 desktop supercomputer, the DGX Spark, hasn't even warmed up yet — and open-source hardware maker Sipeed has already stabbed it in the back? Sipeed has just officially revealed the MaixStation's pricing to Tom's Hardware: it's expected to cost only $3,999! Same 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory + 273 GB/s bandwidth, but the price is slashed by $2,951 (42% cheaper) — and it can even run off a 65W power bank. But as soon as the news broke, the overseas local LLM geek community went into an uproar. After digging through Tom's Hardware's in-depth disclosures and the comment section battles, the full picture of this machine is quite interesting: **Core chip:** Not AMD or NVIDIA, but China's 6nm Axera AX8860P from Axera (16-core Arm A55 + 256 TOPS native FP4 NPU). **Corrected benchmark results:** The company formally clarified to media — running Qwen 27B at the same FP4 precision with speculative sampling disabled, both prefill and decoding are approximately 10% faster than the DGX Spark. **Geek-grade specs:** A palm-sized 11×11×3 cm form factor, 40W typical power consumption, 10G SFP+ networking port, standard M.2 2280 slot, and support for up to 256 Gbps chip-to-chip direct connection across 8 nodes without a switch (a 551GB version is also pending announcement). **Core controversy:** Critics argue "no CUDA ecosystem + $4,000 through Kickstarter crowdfunding is way too risky," while supporters see exceptional memory-per-watt value for money.