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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are looking at NVIDIA's Vera whitepaper and going through the claims made in it and debunking the marketing inside of it. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-ve...
NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
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Hello you fine Internet folk, Today's article is deep diving into Arm's venerable Cortex A55, which is the evolution to Arm's Cortex A53, which can be found in many modern ultra-low power SoCs. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-corte...
Arm’s Cortex A55
Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, In a follow up to our GFX1250 article, today we are looking at LLVM again to scry the difference between GFX1250 and GFX1251 where GFX1251 looks to be very focused on the HPC market. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/llvm-divin...
LLVM Divination of GFX1251’s Differences
Hello you fine Internet folks, this article is a sequel to the Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves article where we are going to look at the differences between GFX1250 and GFX1251.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Next week is AMD's Advancing AI and with it, it is expected that AMD will be talking about the MI400 series but before that we are going scrying the LLVM tea leaves for information on GFX1250 AKA MI455X. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-th...
Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves
In just a few short days, AMD will be showing off their brand new MI400 series of Datacenter Accelerators at their Advancing AI event but before that event comes, we thought it would be fun to attempt...
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are doing a look into the upcoming x86 ISA, ACE, which is x86's Outer Product Matrix Multiplication along with the differences between ACE, Intel's AMX, and Arm's SME. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/is-x86-rea...
Is x86 ready to ACE it?
CPU designs must evolve to keep up with changing workloads.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we have an interview with Kira Boyko, the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+. Hope y’all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/an-intervi... youtu.be/_6wmFnY9NZ4
An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6+'s Product Director
Hello you fine Internet folks, today we have an interview with Kira Boyko, the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on the new SPEC CPU 2026 benchmark, which is the newest set of CPU benchmarks from SPEC, and we compare the 2026 suite to the 2017 suite. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating...
Evaluating SPEC CPU2026
SPEC’s CPU benchmark suite has been a long established industry standard, and is almost impossible to miss when reading through various publications.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are look at Geekbench 6 and the behavior of its subtests along with some comparisons to SPEC CPU 2017. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating...
Evaluating Geekbench 6
Applications vary wildly in what they demand from a system, making it difficult for a single benchmark to provide a broadly representative score.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on Arm's Cortex A725 core found inside the Dell Pro Max with GB10 and how Arm has evolved their density focused core from the A710 to the A725. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-corte... old.chipsandcheese.com/2026/01/27/a...
Arm’s Cortex A725 ft. Dell’s Pro Max with GB10
Arm’s 7-series cores started out as the company’s highest performance offerings.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are covering the announcements that AMD made yesterday here at CES about their upcoming Venice and MI400 series of products. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/ces-2026-t... old.chipsandcheese.com/2026/01/06/c...
CES 2026: Taking the Lids off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs
Here at CES 2026, AMD showed off their upcoming Venice series of server CPUs and their upcoming MI400 series of datacenter accelerators.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Qualcomm's upcoming X2 GPU architecture with Eric Demers, Qualcomm's GPU Team lead. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/diving-int... old.chipsandcheese.com/2026/01/04/d... youtu.be/aI0ahNRHVig
Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are looking at the behavior of the memory subsystem of Nvidia's/Mediatek's GB10 SoC from the CPU's perspective. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/inside-nvi... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/12/31/i...
Inside Nvidia GB10’s Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side
GB10 is a collaboration between Nvidia and Mediatek that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture into an integrated GPU.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today, we have an interview with Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman about the present and future of HPC networking. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/sc25-the-p... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/12/19/s... youtu.be/_kIDsCyTjiA
SC25: The Present and Future of HPC Networking with Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are covering Nvidia's newest Juggernaut of an accelerator, the B200 in its SXM6 format. A big shout out to Verda (formerly DataCrunch) for access to a B200 box. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-b2... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/12/15/n...
Nvidia’s B200: Keeping the CUDA Juggernaut Rolling ft. Verda (formerly DataCrunch)
Nvidia has dominated the GPU compute scene ever since it became mainstream.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, At SC25, some of the specs of the upcoming Alice Recoque supercomputer were announce from which I have tried estimated the rough FP64 FLOPs of AMD's upcoming MI430X. Hope, y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/sc25-estim... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/12/10/s...
SC25: Estimating AMD’s Upcoming MI430X’s FP64 and the Discovery Supercomputer
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are looking at how UMA mode AKA NPS0 affects AMD's Turin. A big shout out to Verda formerly @datacrunch.io for giving us time on a dual 9575F + 8 B200 VM! Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/11/26/e...
Evaluating Uniform Memory Access Mode on AMD's Turin ft. Verda (formerly DataCrunch.io)
How does uniform memory access play out as interconnects get increasingly non-uniform?
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Every year at Supercomputing 2025, one of the finalist of the Gordon Bell Prize was running HACC on the @departmentofenergy.bsky.social's Frontier Supercomputer at ORNL. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/sc25-hacci... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/11/21/s...
SC25: HACCing over 500 Petaflops on Frontier
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Hello you fine Internet folks, I was in San Diego last week to Qualcomm's headquarters where Qualcomm disclosed more information about their upcoming Snapdragon X2 Elite. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/qualcomms-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/11/19/q...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on Strix Halo's memory subsystem and looking at the tradeoffs that AMD made between the CPU and iGPU. Hope y'all enjoy! P.S. Happy Halloween chipsandcheese.com/p/strix-halo... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/10/31/3...
Strix Halo’s Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges
AMD’s Strix Halo aspires to deliver high CPU and GPU performance within a mobile device.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is looking at the MALL AKA Infinity Cache found on Strix Halo and how well it does it job of keeping the Radeon 8060S fed with data. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/10/21/e...
Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo
Strix Halo is the codename for AMD’s highest end mobile chip, which is used in the Ryzen AI MAX series.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are looking at AMD’s largest client APU to date, Strix Halo. This is an mobile APU able to handle high end CPU and GPU workloads without compromise. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-chipl... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/10/17/a...
AMD’s Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo
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Hello you fine Internet folks, At this year’s ITT, Intel announced their upcoming client SoC, Panther Lake along with all of the improvements that they have made to this latest SoC. Hope y’all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/panther-la... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/10/14/p... youtu.be/BHssAMUZzew
Panther Lake’s Reveal at ITT 2025
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we have an interview with the Chief Architect of x86 Cores at Intel, Stephen Robinson, to talk about the latest cores found in Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest. Hope y'all enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62oe... chipsandcheese.com/p/interviewi...
Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores at Intel Tech Tour 2025
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on AMD's EPYC 9355P CPU, thanks to @Dell for sending over a PowerEdge R6715 for testing, where we look at the memory system, NUMA behavior, and more. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-epyc-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/30/a...
AMD’s EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip
High core count chips are headline grabbers.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are taking a look Intel's Xeon 6 Memory Subsystem and the changes that Intel made in order to fit up to 128 cores in a single CPU. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/a-look-int... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/26/a...
A Look into Intel Xeon 6’s Memory Subsystem
Intel’s server dominance has been shaken by high core count competition from the likes of AMD and Arm.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, I was invited to AMD's Austin Headquarters where AMD held their first Tech Day where AMD announced ROCm 7, Modular showed off results with MI355X, and a tour of AMD's Labs. Hope y'all enjoy! youtu.be/e_6hf-9lvZs chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-inaug...
AMD's Inaugural Tech Day ft. ROCm 7, Modular, and AMD Lab Tour
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Hello you fine Internet folks, At Hot Chips there were presentations about high performance chips consuming hundreds to thousands of watts but Everactive talked about their SoCs that consume microwatts. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/everactive... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/17/e...
Everactive’s Self-Powered SoC at Hot Chips 2025
Hot Chips 2025 was filled with presentations on high power devices.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on RDNA4 and what AMD talked about at Hot Chips about the RAS features and the SoC along with looking at some data WRT the improvements made to RDNA4. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-rdna4... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/13/a...
AMD’s RDNA4 GPU Architecture at Hot Chips 2025
RDNA4 is AMD’s latest graphics-focused architecture, and fills out their RX 9000 line of discrete GPUs.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are looking at the successor to Intel's E2100 IPUs, the E2200 series of IPUs codenamed Mount Morgan shown at Hot Chips 2025. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-e22... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/10/i...
Intel’s E2200 “Mount Morgan” IPU at Hot Chips 2025
Intel’s IPUs, or Infrastructure Processing Units, evolved as network adapters developed increasingly sophisticated offload capabilities.
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Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Hot Chips 2025 and specifically the CPU session where we had presentations from Condor Computing, PEZY, IBM, and Intel. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/07/h... youtu.be/n75Cuss_v6Y
Hot Chips 2025: Session 1 - CPUs
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