NVIDIA’s Olympus Core: Pushing Server Single Threaded Performance Boundaries
Chips and Cheese Server chips traditionally offered less single threaded performance than contemporary client parts.
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Image: Chips and Cheese Qualcomm’s System Level Architecture in the Snapdragon X2 Elite
Chips and Cheese Laptop chips have gotten very powerful in recent years, with increasing CPU core counts, more powerful iGPUs, and higher DRAM bandwidth to feed that compute.
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Chips and Cheese Integrated GPUs have become a crucial component in recent laptop chips, thanks to a push for better graphics performance in ultraportable devices.
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Chips and Cheese Editor’s Note (9/8/2026): Arm has reached out to clarify that the maximum IPC increase of the C2-Ultra core over the C1-Ultra core using the parameters shown in the endnotes is 7% along with the memory bandwidth improvement not factoring into the IPC improvement.
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Image: Chips and Cheese Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V
Chips and Cheese CUDA is the most important software framework in the GPU compute world, and Nvidia is looking at supporting CUDA on RISC-V. Terms and conditions may apply.
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Chips and Cheese Machine learning workloads have an insatiable appetite for DRAM capacity. Flash memory is cheaper per gigabyte of capacity than DRAM. Could it offer a way out?
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Chips and Cheese Machine learning applications demand ever more memory capacity and bandwidth. Samsung responded by fabricating their HBM base dies on a logic node, which opens up more opportunities
Image: Chips and Cheese Talking with Synopsys about the Physics of Chip Design at DAC 2026
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Chips and Cheese Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities.
Image: Chips and Cheese RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle
