AMD, Nvidia, and Intel have all diverged their GPU architectures to separately optimize for compute and graphics. While Intel and Nvidia’s compute architectures tend to be close relatives of their contemporary graphics architectures, AMD has taken a different…

We sometimes represent binary data using the hexadecimal notation. We use a base-16 representation where the first 10 digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and where the following digits are A, B, C, D, E, F (or a, b, c, d, e, f). Thus each character represents…

I wrote recently about the turmoil in the field of higher-temperature superconductors, but little did I know what was coming. Yesterday two preprints appeared on the rXiv site, the first bearing the attention-getting title “The First Room-Temperature Ambient…

Along with detailing Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Intel as effectively a footnote to that also disclosed another exciting addition to find with future Intel CPUs: AVX10

These extensions expand the x86 instruction set with access to registers and features that improve performance.

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The `VZEROUPPER` instruction can be used to zero the upper 128 bits of the YMM registers. The architecture documentation recommends using it to eliminate any performance penalties cau...

People increasingly consume ultra processed foods. They includeenergy drinks, mass-produced packaged breads, margarines, cereal, energy bars, fruit yogurts, fruit drinks, vegan meat and cheese, infant formulas, pizza, chicken nuggets, and so forth. Ultra…