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Hot Chips 2026: Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin & Christian Jacobi

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin & Christian Jacobi Hello you fine Internet folks,

August 30
Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung’s Near-Memory Compute CXL Device

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung’s Near-Memory Compute CXL Device CXL memory expansion, with a side of compute

August 30
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung’s Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: Samsung’s Processing-in-Memory (PIM) In-memory compute with LPDDR5X

August 29
Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Crescent Island

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: Intel’s Crescent Island Hello you fine Internet folks,

August 27
Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu’s Monaka CPU

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: Fujitsu’s Monaka CPU Building on a long history of HPC-focused cores, and looking beyond HPC

August 26
Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Diamond Rapids

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: Intel’s Diamond Rapids Hello you fine Internet folks,

August 25
SiFive’s First Server Platform

Chips and CheeseSiliconSiFive’s First Server Platform Hello you fine Internet folks,

August 25
Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Wildcat Lake

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: Intel’s Wildcat Lake All about making things affordable

August 24
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V 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.

August 24
Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) 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?

August 23
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities

Chips and CheeseSiliconHot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities 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

August 23
Talking with Synopsys about the Physics of Chip Design at DAC 2026

Chips and CheeseSiliconTalking with Synopsys about the Physics of Chip Design at DAC 2026 Hello you fine Internet folks,

August 11
NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

Chips and CheeseSiliconNVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose Hello you fine Internet folks,

August 5
Arm’s Cortex A55

Chips and CheeseSiliconArm’s Cortex A55 Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities.

August 2
RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle

Chips and CheeseSiliconRosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle Hello you fine Internet folks,

July 31
AMD Advancing AI 2026: Talking CDNA5 with AMD’s Alan Smith

Chips and CheeseSiliconAMD Advancing AI 2026: Talking CDNA5 with AMD’s Alan Smith Hello you fine Internet folks,

July 27
AMD’s Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun

Chips and CheeseSiliconAMD’s Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun Editor’s Note (7/25/2026):

July 23
LLVM Divination of GFX1251’s Differences

Chips and CheeseSiliconLLVM Divination of GFX1251’s Differences Hello you fine Internet folks, this article is a sequel to the Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves article where we are going to look at the differences between GFX1250 and GFX1251.

July 20
Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves

Chips and CheeseSiliconScrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves In just a few short days, AMD will be showing off their brand new MI400 series of Datacenter Accelerators at their Advancing AI event but before that event comes, we thought it would be fun to attempt to scry the tea lea

July 19
Is x86 ready to ACE it?

Chips and CheeseSiliconIs x86 ready to ACE it? CPU designs must evolve to keep up with changing workloads.

July 14