Chips and Cheese

Is x86 ready to ACE it?

CPU designs must evolve to keep up with changing workloads.

1 hr ago • Chester Lam and Aurora Nockert

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June 2026

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Jun 25 • George Cozma

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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

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May 2026

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

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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 • Chester Lam

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April 2026

Investigating Split Locks on x86-64

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

Apr 8 • Chester Lam

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Embracing AI with Claude's C Compiler

Down with the old! In with the new!

Apr 1 • Chester Lam

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March 2026

Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles

Who cares, it's fun

Mar 22 • Chester Lam

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Analyzing Nvidia GB10's GPU

Looking at Nvidia's latest effort to make a big iGPU

Mar 14 • Chester Lam

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Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

A big, high performance core from Arm

Mar 3 • Chester Lam

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January 2026

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

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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 • George Cozma

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