Chips and Cheese

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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Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Jan 4 • George Cozma

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December 2025

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

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SC25: The Present and Future of HPC Networking with Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Dec 19, 2025 • 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 • 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 • George Cozma

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