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[Apollo A6000] — promises full FPGA-powered backwards Compatibility with its new 68080 Chip.

Apollo Computing stepped forward to reveal its “Proper next-gen Amiga” to the masses. The German firm has unveiled the [Apollo A6000], a comprehensive modern Amiga system featuring advanced technologies, including a “cutting-edge V4 AC68080” FPGA, which makes it the “most powerful Amiga 68k compatible ever created.”

https://a6000.net/

#amiga #apollo #a6000 #retrocomputing #engineer #media #tech #news

[ImageSource: Apollo Computing]

More than 404x faster than the A600, which shares a similar style and form factor. So, what is the Apollo A6000?

“We’ll put together a specs table shortly, but the highlights include the aforementioned AC68080 FPGA, the provision of an unheard-of amount of Amiga system RAM [fast RAM and Chip RAM], CF plus dual SD slot storage, the SAGA chipset, and ample modern connectivity and peripheral ports.”

👾Special attention should be paid to the AC68080 FPGA, which Apollo says they spent 10 years creating. A combination of reverse engineering the Amiga chipset and the Motorola 68000 series of CPUs has led to the development of this processor. 👾

⁉️There’s actually a website dedicated to it here if you want a super-deep dive on the ‘Apollo Core.’ At that link, you will be able to dig through the details of the features of the fast and fully featured ‘AMMX’ enhanced FPGA.⁉️

<http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm>

[ImageSource: Apollo Computing]

⁉️Apollo A6000 specs⁉️

• Processor: V4 AC68080 FPGA
• Chipset: SAGA
• RAM: 2GB fast RAM / 12MB chip RAM
• Storage: 128GB CF card & dual SD card slots
• Ports and interfaces: HDMI, 5x USB [one for power], Maggie 3D-VFX RTG graphics, Ethernet, mouse, joystick, IDE HDD, stereo audio with optional analog out, JTAG, expansion bay
• Keyboard: Mechanical keyboard with ABS caps and Cherry MX switches
•Software: 68K Apollo OS installed, which “runs Amiga OS 3.x software, games, Atari and MacOS” titles
•Case: 3D printed FDM case with choice of colors

Apollo Computer V4 A6000 68k Amiga Compatible Computer System Product Reveal - YouTube

<https://youtu.be/7gT6p2L5sto>

Apollo A6000: The Commodore Amiga of Your Dreams – If You Can Get Your Hands on One!

🔗 https://www.gearnews.com/apollo-a6000-commodore-amiga-tech/

#Commodore #CBM #AMIGA #A600 #Apollo #A6000 #retrocomputer #retrogaming #videogames #80s #90s #Geek

Apollo-Team: Sale of additional A6000 announced

...I am glad to announce that we will be able to offer another batch of 40 units for on-line sale and 20 units to be sold "live" on Amiga40 event....

Full press release:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-09-00108-EN.html

#Amiga #retrocomputing #ApolloVampire #A6000

The new keyboard computer "Apollo A6000" already sold out. But if you want to inform yourself:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-09-00068-EN.html

PS: on Friday 26-9-2025 Apollo team will post the Apollo A6000 roadmap for the next batch(es) including details on timeline and options.

#retrocomputing #A6000

[AMIGA] Apollo A6000: La Leggenda Amiga Rinasce, Compatta e Mostruosamente Potente
https://www.gamesandconsoles.net/amiga-apollo-a6000-la-leggenda-amiga-rinasce-compatta-e-mostruosamente-potente/

@computer

#a6000 #commodore #amiga

one week in the big city

Utlopp, 1983, Antony Gormly, Storbritannien

A whole week in the big city. Noise. Stress. Chaos.

My tools for survival: 3DS XL, camera, watercolors, a cheap android pad, e-book reader… and an umbrella.

#a6000 #foto #Hlsa #KeepOnTruckin #kultur #gbg #gbgftw #UpNorth

From my blog: https://piewpiew.se/blog/2025/08/31/one-week-in-the-big-city/

Browsing Heroes

#a6000 #foto #KeepOnTruckin #kultur #norrkping #sweden #foto #gbg #gbgftw

From my blog: https://piewpiew.se/blog/2025/08/30/browsing-heroes/

old school music

#a6000 #amiga #amiga #c64 #commodore64 #foto #KeepOnTruckin #kultur #retrodatorer

From my blog: https://piewpiew.se/blog/2025/08/29/old-school-music/

detalj

#a6000 #foto #KeepOnTruckin #BlackAndWhitePhoto #BnW #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BnW_of_our_world #BnWSouls #NoireEtBlanc #BlackAndWhiteOnly #BnW_captures #Monochromatic #BW_Lover #BW_Society #BlackAndWhiteCreators #Monochrome #StillLife #HomeDecor #MinimalistDecor #SculpturePhotography

From my blog: https://piewpiew.se/blog/2025/08/27/detalj/

GPUHammer: New RowHammer Attack Variant Degrades AI Models on NVIDIA GPUs.

NVIDIA is urging customers to enable System-level Error Correction Codes [ECC] as a defense against a variant of a RowHammer attack demonstrated against its graphics processing units [GPUs].

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5671

#nvidia #a6000 #gpus #gddr6 #bitflips #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news

Dubbed GPUHammer, the attacks mark the first-ever RowHammer exploit demonstrated against NVIDIA's GPUs [e.g., NVIDIA A6000 GPU with GDDR6 Memory], causing malicious GPU users to tamper with other user’s data by triggering bit flips in GPU memory.

<https://gpuhammer.com/>

👾The most concerning consequence of this behavior, University of Toronto researchers found, is the degradation of an artificial intelligence (AI) model's accuracy from 80% to less than 1%.👾

RowHammer is to modern DRAMs just like how Spectre and Meltdown are to contemporary CPUs. While both are hardware-level security vulnerabilities, RowHammer targets the physical behavior of DRAM memory, whereas Spectre exploits speculative execution in CPUs.

<https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07613>
<https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-are-meltdown-and-spectre-heres-what-you-need-know>

RowHammer causes bit flips in nearby memory cells due to electrical interference in DRAM stemming from repeated memory access, while Spectre and Meltdown allow attackers to obtain privileged information from memory via a side-channel attack, potentially leaking sensitive data.

[ImageSource: University of Toronto]

In 2022, academics from the University of Michigan and Georgia Tech described a technique called SpecHammer that combines RowHammer and Spectre to launch speculative attacks. The approach essentially entails triggering a Spectre v1 attack by using Rowhammer bit-flips to insert malicious values into victim gadgets.

<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9833802>

GPUHammer is the latest variant of RowHammer, but one that's capable of inducing bit flips in NVIDIA GPUs despite the presence of mitigations like target refresh rate [TRR]. In a proof-of-concept developed by the researchers, using a single-bit flip to tamper with a victim's ImageNet deep neural network (DNN) models can degrade model accuracy from 80% to 0.1%.

Exploits like GPUHammer threaten the integrity of AI models, which are increasingly reliant on GPUs to perform parallel processing and carry out computationally demanding tasks, not to mention open up a new attack surface for cloud platforms.

‼️To mitigate the risk posed by GPUHammer, it's advised to enable ECC through "nvidia-smi -e 1." Newer NVIDIA GPUs like H100 or RTX 5090 are not affected due to them featuring on-die ECC, which helps detect and correct errors arising due to voltage fluctuations associated with smaller, denser memory chips.‼️

<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8809496>
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10387>

Alienized

#photography #macro #poppy #pod #green #filaments #summer #dof #pov #evolution #alien #sony #a6000 #50mm18 #raynoxdcr250

#GPUHammer is the first attack to show #Rowhammer bit flips on #GPU memories, specifically on a GDDR6 memory in an #NVIDIA A6000 GPU. Our attacks induce bit flips across all tested DRAM banks, despite in-DRAM defenses like TRR, using user-level #CUDA #code. These bit flips allow a malicious GPU user to tamper with another user’s data on the GPU in shared, time-sliced environments. In a proof-of-concept, we use these bit flips to tamper with a victim’s DNN models and degrade model accuracy from 80% to 0.1%, using a single bit flip. Enabling Error Correction Codes (ECC) can mitigate this risk, but ECC can introduce up to a 10% slowdown for #ML #inference workloads on an #A6000 GPU.