Chips and Cheese Interviews Ronak Singhal
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...
View ArticleIntel Granite Rapids: A Step in the Right Direction (Video)
Intel’s brand new Granite Rapids series of CPUs is launching today and in an attempt of trying some new types of content we recorded an off the cuff and first thoughts video during the event Intel had...
View ArticleAn Interview with Susan Eickhoff and Christian Jacobi from IBM at Hot Chips 2024
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...
View ArticleAn Interview with Intel’s Arik Gihon about Lunar Lake at Hot Chips 2024
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...
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Zen 5’s 2-Ahead Branch Predictor Unit: How a 30 Year Old Idea Allows for New...
When I recently interviewed Mike Clark, he told me, “…you’ll see the actual foundational lift play out in the future on Zen 6, even though it was really Zen 5 that set the table for that.” And at that...
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A Video Interview with Mike Clark, Chief Architect of Zen at AMD
Today’s “article” is a little bit different to what you readers are used to. This article is a transcript of our video interview I conducted with Mike Clark at AMD. This was my first video interview I...
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Qualcomm’s Oryon Core: A Long Time in the Making
In 2019, a startup called Nuvia came out of stealth mode. Nuvia was notable because its leadership included several notable chip architects, including one who used to work for Apple. Apple chips like...
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AMD’s Zen 4, Part 2: Memory Subsystem and Conclusion
Please go through part 1 of our Zen 4 coverage, if you haven’t done so already. This article picks up where the previous one left off. To summarize, Zen 4 has made several moves in the frontend and...
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AMD’s Zen 4 Part 1: Frontend and Execution Engine
AMD’s Zen 4 architecture has been hotly anticipated by many in the tech sphere; as a result many rumors were floating around about its performance gains prior to its release. In February 2021 we...
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Microbenchmarking Intel’s Arc A770
Intel’s Arc GPUs represent the company’s third attempt at taking on the dedicated GPU market. The company’s first attempt, the i740, tried to use the then-new AGP interface to store textures in system...
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Tachyum: Too Good to be True?
Author’s Note: Since the publication of this article, we have since had an interview with Tachyum and nearly all of the architectural analysis done in this article is outdated but it will be kept up...
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Graviton 3: First Impressions
In late May of 2022, AWS released Graviton 3 to the general public. Graviton 3 was the first ARM CPU to introduce the SVE instruction set to a widely accessible server CPU. Before Graviton 3’s general...
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VIA Part 4 – A Deep Dive into Centaur’s Last CPU Core: CNS
The x86-64 instruction set powers the vast majority of PCs, consoles, and servers. However, the number of x86 licensees has always been small, so it’s important to keep track of the few that are left....
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Deep Diving Zen 3 V-Cache
This is the deeper dive of AMD’s V-Cache that we teased with our short latency article and we will be covering a little more on the latency front along with the bandwidth behavior of V-Cache and the...
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AMD’s V-Cache Tested: The Latency Teaser
If you were like us and were surprised that AMD announced 3D V-Cache back in August and wondered how AMD would be able to pull this off, well, we have a teaser article for you today regarding...
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Gracemont: Revenge of the Atom Cores
This article can be considered a part 2 to our Golden Cove article because today we are looking at the other core in Alder Lake, Gracemont. Which is in my opinion more interesting than Golden Cove...
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Zhaoxin Part 3: A Sort of Anti-Climax
I’ll be blunt here, this part will seem like an anti-climax compared to Part 2 of this series but I hope to nicely wrap up this series with this as the conclusion piece of what we know about how the...
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The Weird and Wacky World of VIA Part 2: Zhaoxin’s not quite Electric Boogaloo
In Part 1 of this piece we talked about the third x86 design house, VIA and more specifically VIA’s most recent commercially available architecture Isaiah. Today we are talking about the joint venture...
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The Weird and Wacky World of VIA, the 3rd player in the “Modern” x86 market
Header Image credit goes to Martijn Boer. In the world of x86 CPUs there are two major players, Intel and AMD. However, there is one (well two but that will be expanded on later) other company that...
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Measuring Zen 3’s Bottlenecks
Zen 3 is one of the fastest CPU cores currently on the market; that isn’t up for debate.However, even the fastest CPU cores have bottlenecks and today we are talking about the bottlenecks that Zen 3...
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