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AMD's Strix Halo - Under the Hood
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(author: George Cozma)

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AMD's Strix Halo - Under the Hood

Hello you fine Internet folks, At CES 2025 I got the chance to sit down with Mehash Subramony, AMD Senior Fellow, to talk about AMD's upcoming Strix Halo SoC which is a brand new type of product for AMD and is the big iGPU SoC that many of us have been waiting…

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AMD's CES 2025 Keynote
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(author: George Cozma)

Telegraph

AMD's CES 2025 Keynote

Hello you fine Internet folks, AMD held a keynote at CES 2025 about their upcoming products in the form of dual CCD V-Cache for Zen 5 CPUs, Fire Range, Kraken, Strix Halo, along with the surprising lack of anything RDNA4 and FSR4 other than it's coming later…

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Intel's CES 2025 Keynote
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(author: George Cozma)

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Intel's CES 2025 Keynote

Hello you fine Internet folks,Intel held a keynote at CES 2025 about their upcoming products in the form of Arrow Lake U, H, and HX, and a refresh of Intel N-series along with some news about Battlemage and XeSS2. Starting with the refresh of the N-series…

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Digging into Driver Overhead on Intel's B580
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(author: Chester Lam)

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Digging into Driver Overhead on Intel's B580

Hardware Canucks recently found that Intel's new B580 GPU suffered when paired with older, weaker CPUs. When paired with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the B580 could compete against Nvidia's RTX 4060. But with the i5-9600K, the B580 falls significantly behind its…

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Analyzing Lion Cove's Memory Subsystem in Arrow Lake
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(author: Chester Lam)

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Analyzing Lion Cove's Memory Subsystem in Arrow Lake

A CPU core can perform very differently depending on the platform it's deployed in. That was on full display with Skymont's wildly different performance characteristics in Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake. We've already covered Intel's latest P-Core architecture…

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Artificial Intelligence as the Expert’s Lever: Elevating Human Expertise in the Age of AI

The more likely outcome of the rise of generative artificial intelligence is higher value for the best experts… where ‘expert’ means ‘someone with experience solving real problems’.

“While one may worry that AI will simply render expertise redundant and experts superfluous, history and economic logic suggest otherwise. AI is a tool, like a calculator or a chainsaw, and tools generally aren’t substitutes for expertise but rather levers for its application.
By shortening the distance from intention to result, tools enable workers with proper training and judgment to accomplish tasks that were previously time-consuming, failure-prone or infeasible. Conversely, tools are useless at best — and hazardous at worst — to those lacking relevant training and experience. A pneumatic nail gun is an indispensable time-saver for a roofer and a looming impalement hazard for a home hobbyist.
For workers with foundational training and experience, AI can help to leverage expertise so they can do higher-value work. AI will certainly also automate existing work, rendering certain existing areas of expertise irrelevant. It will further instantiate new human capabilities, new goods and services that create demand for expertise we have yet to foresee.” (Autor, 2024)

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NeuReality: A Server on a PCIe Card
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(author: George Cozma)

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NeuReality: A Server on a PCIe Card

Hello you fine Internet folks,I made a mistake with our last article where I said that it would be our last bit of coverage on Supercomputing 2024. That was in fact incorrect, we have one more piece about Supercomputing 2024 which covers NeuReality. NeuReality…

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How does your URL parser handle Unicode?

Most strings today in software are Unicode strings. It means that you can include mathematical symbols, emojis and so forth. There are many different versions of the letter ‘M’, for example: the Roman letter M (U+004D) is semantically different from the Roman numeral Ⅿ (U+216F) while they both often have the same visual representation. John Cook has an interesting post on Unicode Stegonography: you can possibly use this ambiguity to hide messages in plain view. E.g., if you need to warn someone that you are in danger, you could send a text with the Roman numeral M. Normal people reading the text would not notice the difference.

What about URLs like Microsoft.com? What if you replace the Roman letter by a Roman numeral, is it still the same domain?

It is. URL parsers are required to normalize the URLs which involves, among other things, replacing look-alike letters with Roman letters if they are to be compliant with the WHATWG URL specification.

But do they? Do the URL parsers actually do this hard work? Let us check.

Java. I could not get the standard Java library to return to me the host. It simply returns a null String.

 String url = "https://microsoft.coⅯ";
 URI uri = new URI(url);
 String host = uri.getHost();

C#. The .NET library seems to just returns the domain as-is with the Roman numeral.

string url = "https://microsoft.coⅯ";
Uri uri = new Uri(url);
string host = uri.Host;

PHP. The standard PHP interpreter just returns the domain as-is, with the Roman numeral

$url = "https://microsoft.coⅯ";
$parsed_url = parse_url($url);
if ($parsed_url === false) {
 echo "URL could not be parsed.";
} else {
 $host = $parsed_url['host'];
}

Go. Go also does not do normalization.

urlString := "https://microsoft.coⅯ"
parsedURL, err := url.Parse(urlString)
if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("URL could not be parsed:", err)
        return
}
host := parsedURL.Host

Python. You guessed it: no normalization. It happily returns the Roman numeral.

url = "https://microsoft.coⅯ"
parsed_url = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
host = parsed_url.netloc

JavaScript. JavaScript does it correctly. It will convert https://microsoft.coⅯ to https://microsoft.com.

const url = "https://microsoft.coⅯ";
const urlObj = new URL(url);
const host = urlObj.hostname;

C++. C++ does not have a standard URL parser, but if you use the ada URL parser, you will get correct results. If you are using the Node.js runtime environment, the underlying parser is the C++ ada URL parsing library.

auto url = ada::parse("https://microsoft.coⅯ");
if (!url) { /* failure */ }
std::string_view host = url->get_host();

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d-Matrix Corsair: 256GB of LPDDR for AI Models
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(author: George Cozma)

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d-Matrix Corsair: 256GB of LPDDR for AI Models

Hello you fine Internet folks,Today is the last of our Supercomputing 2024 coverage, but last does not mean least. Today we are going to be covering a new AI startup company called d-Matrix. d-Matrix first product is called the Corsair and it uses the Microscaling…

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IBM Power - What's Next?
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(author: George Cozma)

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IBM Power - What's Next?

Hello you fine Internet folks, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview Bill Starke the Chief Architect of Power CPUs at IBM where we got to talk about the future of Power along with where he sees the industry going for future memory standards. But…

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Skymont in Desktop Form: Atom Unleashed
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(author: Chester Lam)

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Skymont in Desktop Form: Atom Unleashed

Skymont is Intel's newest E-Core architecture. E-Cores trace their lineage to low power and low performance Atom cores of long ago. But E-Cores have become an integral part of Intel's high performance desktop strategy, letting Intel maintain competitive multithreaded…