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Intel’s Netburst: Failure is a Foundation for Success

June 17, 2022 clamchowder Leave a comment

In the world of today’s high performance CPUs, major architectural changes don’t happen often. Iterating off a proven base is…

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Sunny Cove: Intel’s Lost Generation

June 7, 2022 clamchowder Leave a comment

This is going the be the first in a series of articles on CPU architectures. We’re picking up where Real…

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Graviton 3: First Impressions

May 29, 2022 Cheese, clamchowder

In late May of 2022, AWS released Graviton 3 to the general public. Graviton 3 was the first ARM CPU…

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iGPU Cache Setups Compared, Including M1

May 21, 2022 clamchowder

Like CPUs, modern GPUs have evolved to use complex, multi level cache hierarchies. Integrated GPUs are no exception. In fact,…

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Examining Centaur CHA’s Die and Implementation Goals

April 30, 2022 clamchowder

In our last article, we examined Centaur’s CNS architecture. Centaur had a long history as a third x86 CPU designer,…

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Centaur CHA’s Probably Unfinished Dual Socket Implementation

April 23, 2022 clamchowder

Centaur’s CHA chip targets the server market with a low core count. Its dual socket capability is therefore quite important,…

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Intel Renames Oregon Fab: Gordon Moore Park. Adds +270k sq ft, 18A Node now 2024

April 12, 2022 iancutress

If there’s one thing that’s cheaper than building a new fab, it’s expanding an existing one. Intel’s Oregon D1 facility…

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GPU Hardware Video Encoders – How Good Are They?

March 30, 2022 clamchowder

Figuring out the best way to encode a video is very computationally expensive, and it might not a good idea…

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VIA Part 4 – A Deep Dive into Centaur’s Last CPU Core: CNS

March 23, 2022 Cheese, clamchowder

The x86-64 instruction set powers the vast majority of PCs, consoles, and servers. However, the number of x86 licensees has…

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SiFive Completes Series F Funding Round: +$175m, $2.5b Evaluation

March 18, 2022 iancutress

The three main architectures currently in the ecosystem that people talk about are x86, Arm, and RISC-V. It’s that last…

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