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Blackwell: Nvidia’s Massive GPU
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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, and has 92.2 billion transistors. GB202 has 192 Streaming…

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AMD's Freshly-baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect
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AMD's Freshly-baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Archi…

Hello you fine Internet folks,At AMD's Advancing AI 2025, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alan Smith, AMD Senior Fellow and Chief Instinct Architect, about CDNA4 found in the MI350 series of accelerators. Hope y'all enjoy! Transcript below has been edited…

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AMD’s CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement
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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. CDNA 4’s focus is primarily on boosting AMD’s matrix multiplication performance with lower precision data types. Those operations are important for machine…

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AMD’s Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity’s Northbridge
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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. Infinity Fabric provides well-defined interfaces to a transport layer, and lets different functional blocks treat the interconnect as a black box. The system worked well…

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Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 and the Falkor Architecture
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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. The large cloud market piqued the interest of other CPU makers including Qualcomm. Qualcomm had grown to become a formidable force in the mobile SoC market by…

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Computex 2025: RX 9060 XT, Threadripper 9000, ROCm, and more
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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. Due to time constraints and the vastness of Computex, the transcript/article will be done after Computex.

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Computex 2025: Nvidia's Keynote
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Today we are covering the announcements that Nvidia had at Computex 2025 which were the RTX PRO servers, NVLink Fusion, a new supercomputer being built in Taiwan, and the announcement of a new building in Taiwan. Due to time constraints and the vastness of Computex, the transcript/article will be done after Computex.

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Computex 2025: Intel ARC Pro B-Series
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Today Intel is announcing their successor to the Intel ARC Pro A-Series GPUs in the form of the Intel ARC Pro B-Series GPUs. The B-Series is launching the the form of 2 SKUs, the B50 and the B60. Due to time constraints and the vastness of Computex, the transcript/article will be done after Computex.

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Arm’s Bifrost Architecture and the Mali-G52
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Arm’s Bifrost Architecture and the Mali-G52

Arm (the company) is best known for its Cortex CPU line. But Arm today has expanded to offer a variety of licensable IP blocks, ranging from interconnects to IOMMUs to GPUs. GPUs make for an interesting discussion topic because they’ve evolved to become highly…

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Zhaoxin’s KX-7000
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Zhaoxin’s KX-7000

Zhaoxin is a Chinese x86 CPU designer. The KaiXian KX-7000 is Zhaoxin’s latest CPU, and features a new architecture dubbed “世纪大道”. 世纪大道 is a road in Shanghai called “Century Avenue”, following Zhaoxin’s practice of naming architectures after Shanghai landmarks.…

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RDNA 4’s Raytracing Improvements
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RDNA 4’s Raytracing Improvements

Raytraced effects have gained increasing adoption in AAA titles, adding an extra graphics quality tier beyond traditional “ultra” settings. AMD has continuously advanced their raytracing implementation in response. Often, this involved fitting the GPU’s general…

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Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture
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Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture

Modern GPUs often make a difficult tradeoff between occupancy (active thread count) and register count available to each thread. Higher occupancy provides more thread level parallelism to hide latency with, just as more SMT threads help hide latency on a…

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Inside Nvidia's GeForce 6000 Series
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Inside Nvidia's GeForce 6000 Series

2025 has kicked off with a flurry of GPU activity. Intel's Arc B580 revealed that it's still possible to make a mid-range GPU with more than 8 GB of VRAM. AMD's RDNA 4 marked the continuation of a longstanding AMD practice where they reach for the top-end…

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An Interview with Oxide's Bryan Cantrill
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An Interview with Oxide's Bryan Cantrill

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we have an interview with Bryan Cantrill from Oxide Computer Company. Cloud computing has been a tour de force in the computing industry, with many businesses and even governments moving over to cloud services for their…

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RDNA 4's "Out-of-Order" Memory Accesses
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RDNA 4's "Out-of-Order" Memory Accesses

AMD's RDNA 4 brings a variety of memory subsystem enhancements. Among those, one slide stood out because it dealt with out-of-order memory accesses. According to the slide, RDNA 4 allows requests from different shaders to be satisfied out-of-order, and adds…

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Looking Ahead at Intel’s Xe3 GPU Architecture
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Looking Ahead at Intel’s Xe3 GPU Architecture

Intel’s foray into high performance graphics has enjoyed impressive progress over the past few years, and the company is not letting up on the gas. Tom Peterson from Intel has indicated that Xe3 hardware design is complete, and software work is underway.…

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Raytracing on Intel’s Arc B580
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Raytracing on Intel’s Arc B580

Intel’s discrete GPU strategy has emphasized add-on features ever since Alchemist launched. Right from the start, Intel invested heavily in dedicated matrix multiplication units, raytracing accelerators, and hardware video codecs. Battlemage continues that…

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AMD's RDNA4 Architecture (Video)
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AMD's RDNA4 Architecture (Video)

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. These are cards targeting the high mid-range of the GPU market but not going after the highest…

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Zen 5's AVX-512 Frequency Behavior
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Zen 5's AVX-512 Frequency Behavior

Zen 5 is AMD's first core to use full-width AVX-512 datapaths. Its vector execution units are 512 bits wide, and its L1 data cache can service two 512-bit loads per cycle. Intel went straight to 512-bit datapaths with Skylake-X back in 2017, and used fixed…

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Intel’s Battlemage Architecture
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Intel’s Battlemage Architecture

Intel’s Alchemist architecture gave the company a foot in the door to the high performance graphics segment. The Arc A770 proved to be a competent first effort, able to run many games with credible performance. Now, Intel is passing the torch to a new graphics…