Hello you fine Internet folks,I did an audio interview with Ravi Subramanian from Synopsys where we talked about the physics that goes into chip design and EDA tools.

Hello you fine Internet folks, NVIDIA has published a 45-page whitepaper explaining Vera, its first server CPU built around the company’s own Olympus core. On paper, Vera is a fascinating chip with an 88-core monolithic compute die, Olympus being a 10-wide…

Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities. Because they’re less performance sensitive, 5-series cores tend to be superseded less often than their more sophisticated counterparts.…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about one of the stranger x86 stories I have seen in a while. According to both SemiAccurate and Reuters, Intel is giving a new startup called RosaicLabs access to the register transfer language code for…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are over AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event to chit chat on their newly revealed CDNA5 architecture with Alan Smith! AMD's Corporate Fellow and Chief Architect for Datacenter GPUs. Hope y'all enjoy! The transcript below…

Hello you fine Internet folks, here at AMD’s Advancing AI event we are looking at AMD’s brand new Instinct MI455X, replacing the older Instinct MI355X at the top of their AI stack. It is AMD’s first GPU designed for rack-scale AI deployments and is based…

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. So if you want to know what GFX1250 is changing compared to the prior…

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 to scry the tea leaves that are LLVM commits to see what…

CPU designs must evolve to keep up with changing workloads. Sometimes, that evolution involves extending the instruction set to efficiently represent certain types of work. Intel’s AMX extension is one such example. AMX accelerates matrix multiplication for…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Here at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, we got the 67th TOP500 list where there was a surprise awaiting us. That surprise being a new Number 1 Supercomputer on the TOP500. LineShine Shining on Through The new number one Supercomputer…

Hello you fine Internet folks, today we have an interview with Kira Boyko, the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+. Hope y’all enjoy! Transcript below has been edited for conciseness: George Cozma: Hello, you fine internet folks. We’re here at Computex 2026…

SPEC’s CPU benchmark suite has been a long established industry standard, and is almost impossible to miss when reading through various publications. Intel used SPEC CPU2000 to showcase Pentium 4’s improvements over Pentium III. Samsung used SPEC CPU2000…

Applications vary wildly in what they demand from a system, making it difficult for a single benchmark to provide a broadly representative score. Benchmark suites try to address this by running a set of workloads that hopefully capture a range of typical…

“Split locks” are atomic operations that access memory across cache line boundaries. Atomic operations let programmers perform several basic operations in sequence without interference from another thread. That makes atomic operations useful for multithreaded…

Update (4-2-2026): After careful consideration of changing conditions, especially the change in current date, the transition to Claude’s C Compiler has been rescinded. The original article remains below. Our society has gone all-in on AI. Software and related…

Motherboard chipsets have taken on fewer and fewer performance critical functions over time. In the Athlon 64 era, integrated memory controllers took the chipset out of the DRAM access path. In the early 2010s, CPUs like Intel’s Sandy Bridge brought PCIe…

GB10’s integrated GPU is its headline feature, to the extent that GB10 can be seen as a vehicle for delivering Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture in an integrated implementation. The iGPU features 48 Streaming Multiprocessors running at up to 2.55 GHz, meaning…

Desktop and laptop use cases demand high single threaded performance across a large variety of workloads. Creating CPU cores to meet those demands is no easy task. AMD and Intel traditionally dominated this high performance segment using high clocked, high…

Arm’s 7-series cores started out as the company’s highest performance offerings. After Arm introduced the performance oriented X-series, 7-series cores have increasingly moved into a density focused role. Like Intel’s E-Cores, Arm’s 7-series cores today derive…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Here at CES 2026, AMD showed off their upcoming Venice series of server CPUs and their upcoming MI400 series of datacenter accelerators. AMD has talked about the specifications of both Venice and the MI400 series at their Advancing…