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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · 1d
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have an interview with the Chief Architect of x86 Cores at Intel, Stephen Robinson, to talk about the latest cores found in Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest.

Hope y'all enjoy!

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Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores at Intel Tech Tour 2025
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · 10d
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on AMD's EPYC 9355P CPU, thanks to @Dell for sending over a PowerEdge R6715 for testing, where we look at the memory system, NUMA behavior, and more.

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AMD’s EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip
High core count chips are headline grabbers.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · 14d
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are taking a look Intel's Xeon 6 Memory Subsystem and the changes that Intel made in order to fit up to 128 cores in a single CPU.

Hope y'all enjoy!

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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.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · 18d
Hello you fine Internet folks,

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

Hope y'all enjoy!

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AMD's Inaugural Tech Day ft. ROCm 7, Modular, and AMD Lab Tour
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · 23d
Hello you fine Internet folks,

At Hot Chips there were presentations about high performance chips consuming hundreds to thousands of watts but Everactive talked about their SoCs that consume microwatts.

Hope y'all enjoy!

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Everactive’s Self-Powered SoC at Hot Chips 2025
Hot Chips 2025 was filled with presentations on high power devices.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · 27d
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on RDNA4 and what AMD talked about at Hot Chips about the RAS features and the SoC along with looking at some data WRT the improvements made to RDNA4.

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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.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Sep 10
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are looking at the successor to Intel's E2100 IPUs, the E2200 series of IPUs codenamed Mount Morgan shown 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.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Sep 7
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are talking about Hot Chips 2025 and specifically the CPU session where we had presentations from Condor Computing, PEZY, IBM, and Intel.

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Hot Chips 2025: Session 1 - CPUs
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Sep 4
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are looking at PEZY's SC4s which was presented at HC2025. The SC4s shows a continued effort by Japanese companies to maintain the ability to develop hardware.

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PEZY-SC4s at Hot Chips 2025
Continuing a supercomputing tradition with power efficient FP64 compute
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Sep 1
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Hot Chips isn't just all about the architectures of chips but also how to cool said hot chips and this year there were a lot of companies talking about liquid cooling.

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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.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Condor's Cuzco core that they presented at Hot Chips 2025 with their unique Time Resource Matrix technology.

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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.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Aug 25
Hello you fine Internet folks,

At Hot Chips 2025, Intel went into more depth about their upcoming E-Core based Xeon, Clearwater Forest.

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Intel's Clearwater Forest E-Core Server Chip at Hot Chips 2025
Sometimes, the solution to a problem is more E-Cores
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Aug 24
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today is the start of Hot Chips 2025 and thus starts our coverage of Hot Chips with looking at Google's liquid cooling system.

Hope y'all enjoy!

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Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025
Datacenter-Scale Heat Management
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Aug 20
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on looking and profiling gaming workloads on Intel's Skymont cores which are the E-cores found in Arrow Lake and how they behave while gaming.

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Skymont in Gaming Workloads
E-Cores are central in Intel’s CPU strategy.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Aug 2
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is about running and profiling gaming workloads on AMD's Zen 5 and looking at what we can ascertain about how certain gaming workloads behave on Zen 5.

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Running Gaming Workloads through AMD’s Zen 5
Zen 5 is AMD’s newest core architecture.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Jul 22
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Huawei's first custom ARMv8 core called the TaiShen v110, AKA the Kunpeng 920, which is found in many DC products from server CPUs to network cards.

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Huawei's Kunpeng 920 and TaiShan v110 CPU Architecture
Investigating Huawei's unique L3 design and their first in-house core
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Jul 11
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Before AMD's Infinity Fabric, AMD's interconnect for high core count CPUs was HyperTransport (HT). Today's article is a retrospective look at the HT used in Magny Cours CPUs.

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AMD’s Magny Cours and HyperTransport Interconnect: A High Core Count Blast from the Past
Today, we’re used to desktop processors with 16 or more cores, and several times that in server CPUs.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Jul 6
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is looking at how some gaming workloads behave on Intel's latest Lion Cove core by looking at performance counters.

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Intel’s Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads
Lion Cove is Intel’s latest high performance CPU architecture.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Jun 29
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Nvidia's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell and diving into the Blackwell architecture generally and more specifically into the GB202 GPU die in the RTX PRO 6000.

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Blackwell: Nvidia’s Massive GPU
Nvidia has a long tradition of building giant GPUs. Blackwell, their latest graphics architecture, continues that tradition. GB202 is the largest Blackwell die. It occupies a massive 750mm2 of area…
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Jun 20
Hello you fine Internet folks,

At AMD's Advancing AI 2025, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alan Smith, AMD Sr. Fellow and Chief Instinct Architect, about CDNA4 and the MI350.
Hope y'all enjoy!

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AMD's Freshly-baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Jun 17
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on AMD's CDNA4 architecture that will be found in the MI350 series.

Hope y'all enjoy!

P.S. We also have an interview with Alan Smith coming up, so look forward to that!

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AMD’s CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement
CDNA 4 is AMD’s latest compute oriented GPU architecture, and represents a modest update over CDNA 3.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · Jun 14
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on AMD's APU interconnect before Infinity Fabric (GMI). The code-named "Garlic" and "Onion" interconnects can be found in AMD's Trinity series of APUs.

Hope y'all enjoy!

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AMD’s Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity’s Northbridge
Today, AMD’s Infinity Fabric interconnect is ubiquitous across the company’s lineup.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · May 29
Hello you fine Internet folks,

In the past 2 weeks Qualcomm has made some announcements about making new server CPUs, so in today's article we are looking at Qualcomm's first server CPU, the Centriq 2400.

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Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 and the Falkor Architecture
Cloud computing rose rapidly around 2010, powered by AMD’s Opteron and Intel’s Xeon processors.
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · May 23
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are covering the announcements that AMD had at Computex 2025 which were the RX 9060 XT, Threadripper 9000, the Radeon AI Pro R9700, and more ROCm commitments.

Hope y'all enjoy!

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Computex 2025: RX 9060 XT, Threadripper 9000, ROCm, and more
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chipsandcheese.bsky.social @chipsandcheese.bsky.social · May 22
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are covering the announcements that Nvidia had at Computex 2025 which were the RTX PRO servers, NVLink Fusion, and more.

Hope y'all enjoy!

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Computex 2025: Nvidia's Keynote
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