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

Here at CES 2026, AMD showed off their upcoming Venice series of server CPUs and their upcoming MI400 series of datacenter accelerators.

Jan 6 • George Cozma

Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers

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Jan 4 • George Cozma

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.

Dec 31, 2025 • Chester Lam

SC25: The Present and Future of HPC Networking with Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman

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Dec 19, 2025 • George Cozma

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

Nvidia has dominated the GPU compute scene ever since it became mainstream.

Dec 15, 2025 • Chester Lam

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SC25: Estimating AMD’s Upcoming MI430X’s FP64 and the Discovery Supercomputer

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Dec 10, 2025 • George Cozma

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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SC25: HACCing over 500 Petaflops on Frontier

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Nov 22, 2025 • George Cozma

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite

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Nov 19, 2025 • George Cozma

Strix Halo’s Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges

Editor’s Note (11/2/2025): Due to an error in moving the article over from Google Docs to Substack, the “Balancing CPU and GPU Bandwidth Demands…

Oct 31, 2025 • Chester Lam

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.

Oct 22, 2025 • Chester Lam

AMD’s Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo

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Oct 18, 2025 • George Cozma

Panther Lake’s Reveal at ITT 2025

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Oct 14, 2025 • George Cozma

Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores at Intel Tech Tour 2025

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Oct 9, 2025 • George Cozma

AMD’s EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip

High core count chips are headline grabbers.

Sep 30, 2025 • Chester Lam

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.

Sep 26, 2025 • Chester Lam

AMD's Inaugural Tech Day ft. ROCm 7, Modular, and AMD Lab Tour

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Sep 22, 2025 • George Cozma

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