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An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6+'s Product Director

Hello you fine Internet folks, today we have an interview with Kira Boyko, the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+.

Jun 12 • George Cozma

Evaluating SPEC CPU2026

SPEC’s CPU benchmark suite has been a long established industry standard, and is almost impossible to miss when reading through various publications.

May 23 • Chester Lam

Evaluating Geekbench 6

Applications vary wildly in what they demand from a system, making it difficult for a single benchmark to provide a broadly representative score.

May 7 • Chester Lam

Investigating Split Locks on x86-64

How bad are they, really? And how bad is the medicine?

Apr 8 • Chester Lam

Embracing AI with Claude's C Compiler

Down with the old! In with the new!

Apr 1 • Chester Lam

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Analyzing Nvidia GB10's GPU

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Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

A big, high performance core from Arm

Mar 3 • Chester Lam

Arm’s Cortex A725 ft. Dell’s Pro Max with GB10

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

Jan 27 • Chester Lam

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

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?

Nov 26, 2025 • Chester Lam

SC25: HACCing over 500 Petaflops on Frontier

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Nov 22, 2025 • George Cozma