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Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are looking at how UMA mode AKA NPS0 affects AMD's Turin.
A big shout out to Verda formerly @datacrunch.io for giving us time on a dual 9575F + 8 B200 VM!

Hope y'all enjoy!

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Evaluating Uniform Memory Access Mode on AMD's Turin ft. Verda (formerly DataCrunch.io)
How does uniform memory access play out as interconnects get increasingly non-uniform?
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November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Every year at Supercomputing 2025, one of the finalist of the Gordon Bell Prize was running HACC on the @departmentofenergy.bsky.social's Frontier Supercomputer at ORNL.

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SC25: HACCing over 500 Petaflops on Frontier
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November 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Hello you fine Internet folks,

I was in San Diego last week to Qualcomm's headquarters where Qualcomm disclosed more information about their upcoming Snapdragon X2 Elite.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite
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November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Strix Halo's memory subsystem and looking at the tradeoffs that AMD made between the CPU and iGPU.

Hope y'all enjoy!

P.S. Happy Halloween

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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.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is looking at the MALL AKA Infinity Cache found on Strix Halo and how well it does it job of keeping the Radeon 8060S fed with data.

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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.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are looking at AMD’s largest client APU to date, Strix Halo. This is an mobile APU able to handle high end CPU and GPU workloads without compromise.

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AMD’s Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo
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October 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Hello you fine Internet folks,

At this year’s ITT, Intel announced their upcoming client SoC, Panther Lake along with all of the improvements that they have made to this latest SoC.

Hope y’all enjoy!

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Panther Lake’s Reveal at ITT 2025
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October 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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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.

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Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores at Intel Tech Tour 2025
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October 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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September 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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.

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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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September 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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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September 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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.

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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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September 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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September 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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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September 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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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September 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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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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September 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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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September 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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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August 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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August 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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.

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Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025
Datacenter-Scale Heat Management
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August 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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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August 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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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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August 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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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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July 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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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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July 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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July 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM