Chips and Cheese

Arm’s 7-series cores started out as the company’s highest performance offerings.

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

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Qualcomm’s upcoming X2 GPU architecture with Eric Demers, Qualcomm’s GPU Team lead.

GB10 is a collaboration between Nvidia and Mediatek that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture into an integrated GPU.

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we have an interview with the CEO of Cornelis Networks, Lisa Spelman, where we talk about what makes Omnipath different to other solutions on the market along with what steps has Cornelis taken in support of Ultra Ethe…

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

Hello, you fine Internet folks, At Supercomputing 2025, EuroHPC, AMD, and Eviden announced that the second Exascale system in Europe was going to be called Alice Recoque.

NUMA, or Non-Uniform Memory Access, lets hardware expose affinity between cores and memory controllers to software.

Hello you fine Internet folks, Here at Supercomputing the Gordon Bell Prize is announced every year.

Hello you fine Internet folks, Last week I was in San Diego at Qualcomm’s Headquarters where Qualcomm disclosed more information about their upcoming Snapdragon X2 Elite SOC.

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” section was missing some Cyberpunk 2077 data.

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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Hello you fine Internet folks, At this year’s ITT, Intel announced their upcoming client SoC, Panther Lake (PTL) along with all of the improvements that they have made to this latest SoC.

Hello you fine Internet folks, I was at Intel Tech Tour this year where Intel talked about their upcoming Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest CPUs.

High core count chips are headline grabbers.

Intel’s server dominance has been shaken by high core count competition from the likes of AMD and Arm.

Hello you fine Internet folks, I was invited to AMD’s Austin Headquarters where AMD held their inaugural Tech Day where AMD announced ROCm 7, Modular showed off their results with MI355X, which was topped off by a tour of AMD’s Labs.

Hot Chips 2025 was filled with presentations on high power devices.

RDNA4 is AMD’s latest graphics-focused architecture, and fills out their RX 9000 line of discrete GPUs.

Intel’s IPUs, or Infrastructure Processing Units, evolved as network adapters developed increasingly sophisticated offload capabilities.