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SC25: Estimating AMD’s Upcoming MI430X’s FP64 and the Discovery Supercomputer
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SC25: Estimating AMD’s Upcoming MI430X’s FP64 and the Discov…

Hello, you fine Internet folks, At Supercomputing 2025, EuroHPC, AMD, and Eviden announced that the second Exascale system in Europe was going to be called Alice Recoque. Powered by Eviden’s BullSequena XH3500 platform using AMD’s upcoming Instinct MI430X…

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Evaluating Uniform Memory Access Mode on AMD's Turin ft. Verda (formerly DataCrunch.io)
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Evaluating Uniform Memory Access Mode on AMD's Turin ft. Ver…

NUMA, or Non-Uniform Memory Access, lets hardware expose affinity between cores and memory controllers to software. NUMA nodes traditionally aligned with socket boundaries, but modern server chips can subdivide a socket into multiple NUMA nodes. It’s a reflection…

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SC25: HACCing over 500 Petaflops on Frontier
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SC25: HACCing over 500 Petaflops on Frontier

Hello you fine Internet folks, Here at Supercomputing the Gordon Bell Prize is announced every year. The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded every year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. One of this year’s finalist is…

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite

Hello you fine Internet folks, Last week I was in San Diego at Qualcomm’s Headquarters where Qualcomm disclosed more information about their upcoming Snapdragon X2 Elite SOC. Snapdragon X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s newest SOC for the Windows on ARM ecosystem that…

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Strix Halo’s Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges
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Strix Halo’s Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges

AMD’s Strix Halo aspires to deliver high CPU and GPU performance within a mobile device. Doing so presents the memory subsystem with a complicated set of demands. CPU applications are often latency sensitive with low bandwidth demands. GPU workloads are often…

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Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo
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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. It combines a powerful CPU with 16 Zen 5 cores and a large GPU with 20 RDNA 3.5 Workgroup Processors (WGPs). The sizeable iGPU makes Strix Halo particularly…

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AMD’s Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo
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AMD’s Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo

Hello you fine Internet folks! Today we are looking at AMD’s largest client APU to date, Strix Halo. This is an APU designed to be a true all-in-one mobile processor, able to handle high end CPU and GPU workloads without compromise. Offering a TDP range of…

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Panther Lake’s Reveal at ITT 2025
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Panther Lake’s Reveal at ITT 2025

Hello you fine Internet folks, At this year’s ITT, Intel announced their upcoming client SoC, Panther Lake (PTL) along with all of the improvements that they have made to this latest SoC. With a new node, improvements to the CPU cores, a brand new GPU, and…

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Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores at Intel Tech Tour 2025
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Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores at Intel T…

Hello you fine Internet folks, I was at Intel Tech Tour this year where Intel talked about their upcoming Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest CPUs. I had a chance to sit down with Stephen Robinson, Lead Architect for x86 Cores at Intel, and talk about lntel’s…

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AMD’s EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip
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AMD’s EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip

High core count chips are headline grabbers. But maxing out the metaphorical core count slider isn’t the only way to go. Server players like Intel, AMD, and Arm aim for scalable designs that cover a range of core counts. Not all applications can take advantage…

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A Look into Intel Xeon 6’s Memory Subsystem
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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. Xeon 6, Intel’s latest server platform, aims to address this with a more scalable chiplet strategy. Chiplets are now arranged side by side, with IO chiplets…

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AMD's Inaugural Tech Day ft. ROCm 7, Modular, and AMD Lab Tour
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Hello you fine Internet folks,

I was invited to AMD's Austin Headquarters where AMD held their inaugural Tech Day where AMD announced ROCm 7, Modular showed off their results with MI355X, which was topped off by a tour of AMD's Labs.

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Everactive’s Self-Powered SoC at Hot Chips 2025
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Everactive’s Self-Powered SoC at Hot Chips 2025

Hot Chips 2025 was filled with presentations on high power devices. AI can demand hundreds of watts per chip, requiring sophisticated power delivery and equally complex cooling. It’s a far cry from consumer devices that must make do with standard wall outlets…

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AMD’s RDNA4 GPU Architecture at Hot Chips 2025
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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. AMD noted that creating a good gaming GPU requires understanding both current workloads, as well as taking into account what workloads might look like…

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Intel’s E2200 “Mount Morgan” IPU at Hot Chips 2025
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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. IPUs take things a step further, aiming to take on a wide variety of infrastructure services in a cloud environment in…

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Hot Chips 2025: Session 1 - CPUs
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Today we are talking about Hot Chips 2025 and specifically the CPU session at Hot Chips 2025 where we had presentations from Condor Computing about their new Cuzco core, PEZY about their upcoming SC4s chip, IBM about their Power11 chip which is already shipping to customers, and Intel about their upcoming E-Core based Xeon CPU codenamed Clearwater Forest.

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If you’d like more detailed break downs of most of the chips and the presentations, here are links to our articles on them:

Condor Computing’s Cuzco Core: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/condors-cuzco-risc-v-core-at-hot

PEZY’s SC4s Chip: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/pezy-sc4s-at-hot-chips-2025

IBM Power - What is Next?: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/ibm-power-whats-next

Intel’s Clearwater Forest Xeon: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-clearwater-forest-e-core-server

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PEZY-SC4s at Hot Chips 2025
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PEZY-SC4s at Hot Chips 2025

Japan has a long history of building domestic supercomputer architectures dating back to the 1980s. PEZY Computing is one player in Japan’s supercomputing scene alongside Fujitsu and NEC, and has taken several spots in the Green500 list. RIKEN’s Exascaler…

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Liquid Cooling Exhibits at Hot Chips 2025
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Liquid Cooling Exhibits at Hot Chips 2025

Hot Chips doesn’t just consist of presentations on hardware architecture, although those are the core of what Hot Chips is about. The conference also features stands where various companies show off their developments, and that’s not restricted to chips.…

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Condor’s Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025
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Condor’s Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025

Condor Computing, a subsidiary of Andes Technology that creates licensable RISC-V cores, has a business model with parallels to Arm (the company) and SiFive. Andes formed Condor in 2023, so Condor is a relatively young player on the RISC-V scene. However…

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Intel's Clearwater Forest E-Core Server Chip at Hot Chips 2025
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Intel's Clearwater Forest E-Core Server Chip at Hot Chips 20…

E-Cores have been a central fixture of Intel's client CPU strategy for the past few years. There, they help provide performance density and let Intel compete with AMD on multithreaded applications. But performance density isn't just useful in the client scene.…