Hot Chips isn’t just a conference where companies give in-depth presentations on the architectures behind high performance chips. It’s also a place to talk to the engineers who worked on those products on the sidelines, often over coffee and pastries. I had…

There were no shortage of AI accelerators at Hot Chips 2024. One of those was FuriosaAI’s RNGD, pronounced Renegade. It’s a 150W TDP chip with 48 GB of HBM3, and aims to handle inference at lower power than GPUs. RNGD is physically implemented on a PCIe card…

Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike any other server CPU. It only has eight cores, but runs them at a…

This is our second video interview from Hot Chips 2024 and this time I got to sit down with Susan Eickhoff and Christian Jacobi from IBM to talk about their brand new Telum II processor and Spyre AI cards from the development process to the architecture of…

For today’s article we have another video interview for you folks, this time with Arik Gihon from Intel where we talk about Lunar Lake. Before we get into the video and the transcript, I would just like to give a massive thank you to all of you who have donated…

Ampere Computing focuses on developing cloud-native processors, and aims to serve many users while providing security, privacy, and consistent performance, without relying on process node scaling. Features that increase performance at the expense of consistency…

Last year at Hot Chips 2023, Tesla introduced their Dojo supercomputer. For Tesla, machine learning is focused on automotive applications like self driving cars. Training deals with video, which can demand a lot of IO bandwidth. As an example, the size of…

Today, Qualcomm is presenting on their Oryon core. We’ve covered this core previously in a separate article, so I’ll focus on new details or differences covered in the review.

AMD’s iGPUs have seen plenty of recent success. Handheld gaming devices like Valve’s Steam Deck and Asus’s ROG Ally both use AMD integrated graphics. AMD’s last generation mobile offering, codenamed Phoenix, already did well against Intel and Qualcomm’s competing…

Zen 5 is AMD’s newest core architecture. Just a few weeks after launch, Zen 5 has already hit the market with several different cache, clock speed, and AVX-512 configurations. Here, I’m comparing Zen 5 variants along with a pile of older cores with clock…

AMD’s desktop Zen 5 products, codenamed Granite Ridge, are the latest in the company’s line of high performance consumer offerings. Here, we’ll be looking at AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X. We already saw most of what Zen 5 looked like in Strix Point, so this article…

AMD’s Zen line has gone a long way since it brought AMD’s CPU efforts back from the dead. Successive Zen generations delivered steady improvements that made AMD an increasingly dangerous competitor to Intel. Zen 5 is the latest member of the Zen line, and…

Cortex A73 aimed to address the power and thermal issues that prevented Arm’s early 64-bit cores from reaching their full potential. It started a trend that saw Arm successfully capture the smartphone CPU market, and did so by emphasizing efficiency. Part…

The 2020s were a fun time for Intel’s Atom line, which went from an afterthought to playing a major role across Intel’s high performance client offerings.

An innocent single-cycle loop test leads to a surprising microarchitecture discovery

For today’s article we have another video interview for you folks, this time with Ronak Singhal from Intel where we talk about Granite Rapids AP. Before we get into the video and the transcript, I would just like to give a massive thank you to all of you…

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Intel’s mobile CPUs have undergone massive changes over the past couple generations as Intel defends its laptop market against AMD, Qualcomm, and to a lesser extent Apple.