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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
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Chester Lam
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Investigating Split Locks on x86-64
How bad are they, really? And how bad is the medicine?
Apr 8
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Chester Lam
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Embracing AI with Claude's C Compiler
Down with the old! In with the new!
Apr 1
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Chester Lam
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Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles
Who cares, it's fun
Mar 22
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Chester Lam
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Analyzing Nvidia GB10's GPU
Looking at Nvidia's latest effort to make a big iGPU
Mar 14
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Chester Lam
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Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
A big, high performance core from Arm
Mar 3
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Chester Lam
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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
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Chester Lam
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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
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George Cozma
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Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers
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Jan 4
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George Cozma
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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
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Chester Lam
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SC25: The Present and Future of HPC Networking with Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman
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Dec 19, 2025
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George Cozma
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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
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Chester Lam
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SC25: Estimating AMD’s Upcoming MI430X’s FP64 and the Discovery Supercomputer
Hello, you fine Internet folks,
Dec 10, 2025
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George Cozma
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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
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Chester Lam
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SC25: HACCing over 500 Petaflops on Frontier
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Nov 22, 2025
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George Cozma
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite
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Nov 19, 2025
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George Cozma
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Strix Halo’s Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges
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…
Oct 31, 2025
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Chester Lam
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