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Grace Hopper, Nvidia’s Halfway APU
Nvidia and AMD are the biggest players in the high performance GPU space. But while Nvidia has a huge GPU market share advantage over AMD, the latter’s CPU prowess makes it a strong competitor. AMD...
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Cortex A73’s Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity
Cortex A73 aimed to address the power and thermal issues that prevented Arm’s early 64-bit cores from reaching their full potential. It started a trend that saw Arm successfully capture the smartphone...
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AMD’s Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile
AMD’s Zen line has gone a long way since it brought AMD’s CPU efforts back from the dead. Successive Zen generations delivered steady improvements that made AMD an increasingly dangerous competitor to...
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AMD’s Ryzen 9950X: Zen 5 on Desktop
AMD’s desktop Zen 5 products, codenamed Granite Ridge, are the latest in the company’s line of high performance consumer offerings. Here, we’ll be looking at AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X. We already saw most...
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Zen 5 Variants and More, Clock for Clock
Zen 5 is AMD’s newest core architecture. Just a few weeks after launch, Zen 5 has already hit the market with several different cache, clock speed, and AVX-512 configurations. Here, I’m comparing Zen...
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AMD’s Radeon 890M: Strix Point’s Bigger iGPU
AMD’s iGPUs have seen plenty of recent success. Handheld gaming devices like Valve’s Steam Deck and Asus’s ROG Ally both use AMD integrated graphics. AMD’s last generation mobile offering, codenamed...
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Hot Chips 2024: Qualcomm’s Oryon Core
Today, Qualcomm is presenting on their Oryon core. We’ve covered this core previously in a separate article, so I’ll focus on new details or differences covered in the review. Snapdragon X Elite pin...
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Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications
Last year at Hot Chips 2023, Tesla introduced their Dojo supercomputer. For Tesla, machine learning is focused on automotive applications like self driving cars. Training deals with video, which can...
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AmpereOne at Hot Chips 2024: Maximizing Density
Ampere Computing focuses on developing cloud-native processors, and aims to serve many users while providing security, privacy, and consistent performance, without relying on process node scaling....
View ArticleAn Interview with Intel’s Arik Gihon about Lunar Lake at Hot Chips 2024
For today’s article we have another video interview for you folks, this time with Arik Gihon from Intel where we talk about Lunar Lake. Before we get into the video and the transcript, I would just...
View ArticleAn Interview with Susan Eickoff and Christian Jacobi from IBM at Hot Chips 2024
This is our second video interview from Hot Chips 2024 and this time I got to sit down with Susan Eickoff and Christian Jacobi from IBM to talk about their brand new Telum II processor and Spyre AI...
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Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike any other...
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FuriosaAI’s RNGD at Hot Chips 2024: Accelerating AI with a More Flexible...
There were no shortage of AI accelerators at Hot Chips 2024. One of those was FuriosaAI’s RNGD, pronounced Renegade. It’s a 150W TDP chip with 48 GB of HBM3, and aims to handle inference at lower...
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Discussing AMD’s Zen 5 at Hot Chips 2024
Hot Chips isn’t just a conference where companies give in-depth presentations on the architectures behind high performance chips. It’s also a place to talk to the engineers who worked on those...
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Running SPEC CPU2017 at Chips and Cheese?
SPEC, or Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, maintains and publishes various benchmark suites that are often taken as an industry standard. Here, I’ll be looking at SPEC CPU2017, which...
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Intel’s Redwood Cove: Baby Steps are Still Steps
Intel’s Meteor Lake chip signaled a change in Intel’s mobile strategy, moving away from the monolithic designs that had characterized Intel’s client designs for more than a decade. But radical changes...
View ArticleIntel Granite Rapids: A Step in the Right Direction (Video)
Intel’s brand new Granite Rapids series of CPUs is launching today and in an attempt of trying some new types of content we recorded an off the cuff and first thoughts video during the event Intel had...
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Lion Cove: Intel’s P-Core Roars
Intel’s mobile CPUs have undergone massive changes over the past couple generations as Intel defends its laptop market against AMD, Qualcomm, and to a lesser extent Apple. Meteor Lake adopted...
View ArticleChips and Cheese Interviews Ronak Singhal
For today’s article we have another video interview for you folks, this time with Ronak Singhal from Intel where we talk about Granite Rapids AP. Before we get into the video and the transcript, I...
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Skymont: Intel’s E-Cores reach for the Sky
The 2020s were a fun time for Intel’s Atom line, which went from an afterthought to playing a major role across Intel’s high performance client offerings. Intel’s latest mobile chip, codenamed Lunar...
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