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Arm’s Cortex A725 ft. Dell’s Pro Max with GB10
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Arm’s Cortex A725 ft. Dell’s Pro Max with GB10

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…

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CES 2026: Taking the Lids off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs
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(author: George Cozma)

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CES 2026: Taking the Lids off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs

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…

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Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers
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(author: George Cozma)

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Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Deme…

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Qualcomm's upcoming X2 GPU architecture with Eric Demers, Qualcomm's GPU Team lead. We talk about the changes from the prior X1 generation of GPUs along with why some of the changes were made. Hope…

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Inside Nvidia GB10’s Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side
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(author: Chester Lam)

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Inside Nvidia GB10’s Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side

GB10 is a collaboration between Nvidia and Mediatek that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture into an integrated GPU. GB10’s GPU has 48 Blackwell SMs, matching the RTX 5070 in core count. The CPU side has 10 Cortex X925 and 10 Cortex A725 cores and is therefore…

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SC25: The Present and Future of HPC Networking with Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman
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(author: George Cozma)

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SC25: The Present and Future of HPC Networking with Cornelis…

Hello you fine Internet folks,Today we have an interview with the CEO of Cornelis Networks, Lisa Spelman, where we talk about what makes Omnipath different to other solutions on the market along with what steps has Cornelis taken in support of Ultra Ethernet.…

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Nvidia’s B200: Keeping the CUDA Juggernaut Rolling ft. Verda (formerly DataCrunch)
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Nvidia’s B200: Keeping the CUDA Juggernaut Rolling ft. Verda…

Nvidia has dominated the GPU compute scene ever since it became mainstream. The company’s Blackwell B200 GPU is the next to take up the mantle of being the go-to compute GPU. Unlike prior generations, Blackwell can’t lean heavily on process node improvements.…

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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…