Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are covering the announcements that AMD made yesterday here at CES about their upcoming Venice and MI400 series of products. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/ces-2026-t... old.chipsandcheese.com/2026/01/06/c...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Qualcomm's upcoming X2 GPU architecture with Eric Demers, Qualcomm's GPU Team lead. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/diving-int... old.chipsandcheese.com/2026/01/04/d... youtu.be/aI0ahNRHVig

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are looking at the behavior of the memory subsystem of Nvidia's/Mediatek's GB10 SoC from the CPU's perspective. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/inside-nvi... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/12/31/i...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today, we have an interview with Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman about the present and future of HPC networking. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/sc25-the-p... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/12/19/s... youtu.be/_kIDsCyTjiA

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are covering Nvidia's newest Juggernaut of an accelerator, the B200 in its SXM6 format. A big shout out to Verda (formerly DataCrunch) for access to a B200 box. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-b2... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/12/15/n...

Hello you fine Internet folks, At SC25, some of the specs of the upcoming Alice Recoque supercomputer were announce from which I have tried estimated the rough FP64 FLOPs of AMD's upcoming MI430X. Hope, y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/sc25-estim... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/12/10/s...

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/11/26/e...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/sc25-hacci... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/11/21/s...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/qualcomms-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/11/19/q...

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 chipsandcheese.com/p/strix-halo... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/10/31/3...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/10/21/e...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-chipl... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/10/17/a...

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/panther-la... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/10/14/p... youtu.be/BHssAMUZzew

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! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62oe... chipsandcheese.com/p/interviewi...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-epyc-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/30/a...

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/a-look-int... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/26/a...

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! youtu.be/e_6hf-9lvZs chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-inaug...

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/everactive... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/17/e...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-rdna4... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/13/a...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-e22... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/10/i...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/07/h... youtu.be/n75Cuss_v6Y

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/pezy-sc4s-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/04/p...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/liquid-coo... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/09/01/l...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/condors-cu... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/08/29/c...

Hello you fine Internet folks, At Hot Chips 2025, Intel went into more depth about their upcoming E-Core based Xeon, Clearwater Forest. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-cle... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/08/25/i...

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/googles-li... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/08/24/g...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/skymont-in... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/08/20/s...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/running-ga... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/08/02/r...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/huaweis-ku... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/07/22/h...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-magny... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/07/11/a...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-lio... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/07/06/i...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/blackwell-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/06/28/b...

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-fresh... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/06/20/a... youtu.be/x8SlgIli0wo

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-cdna-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/06/17/a...

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-pre-z... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/06/14/a...

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. Hope y'all enjoy! chipsandcheese.com/p/qualcomms-... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/05/29/q...

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/computex-2... youtu.be/8c7XEIn2BGo

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! chipsandcheese.com/p/computex-2... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/05/21/c... youtu.be/YFjrgMpCXHI

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today is the start of our Computex coverage and we are starting with Intel's new ARC Pro GPUs. Hope y'all enjoy! youtu.be/F_Oq5NTR6Sk open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/05/19/c...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on a GPU architecture that is not thought about very often and that is ARM's Bifrost architecture in the form of the Mali-G52 found in the Amlogic S922X. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/05/09/a...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article we are deep-diving into the architecture of Zhaoxin's latest CPU series, the KX-7000. We compare the KX-7000 to the KX-6000 along with some older x86 CPUs. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/04/30/z...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on the improvements that AMD has made to the raytracing abilities on RDNA4 based GPUs including BVH improvements, 2Xing the intersection engines, and more. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/04/14/r...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are continuing our deep-diving into the RDNA4 architecture with looking at the newly added Dynamic Register Allocation and how it compares to Nvidia's `setmaxnreg`. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/04/05/d...

Hello you fine Internet folks, We have seen a flurry of new GPUs launched in the past few months with Nvidia launching their brand new 6000 series of GPUs powered by the Curie architecture. Wait a second... Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/03/31/i...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we have an interview with @oxidecomputer.bsky.social's @bcantrill.bsky.social about Oxide and what hardware they are building and the reasons why. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/03/27/a... youtu.be/5-nOIlrUqMM

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is a deep-dive on how raytracing workloads behave on Intel's B580 GPU and where the strengths and bottlenecks of the BMG architecture lies for RT workloads. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/03/14/r...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today AMD has released their new RDNA4 architecture found in the RX 9000 series, with the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs launching first. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/03/05/a... youtu.be/lVzVOs-5Qb0

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on Zen 5's frequency behavior when dealing with AVX512 instructions and seeing just how differently Zen 5 behaves to Skylake-X. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/02/28/z...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on Intel's Battlemage Architecture found in the B580 dGPU and what improvements have been made compared to the last generation Alchemist architecture. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/02/10/i...

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today's article is on Alibaba/T-Head's Xuantie C910 core which has in part been open sourced and is T-Head's first out of order core. Hope y'all enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/chipsand... old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/02/03/a...