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Intel’s Dunnington: Core 2 Goes Dun Dun Dun
After Conroe’s launch in 2006, Intel had an excellent core architecture (Merom). They smacked AMD around in the client space where single threaded performance was king. But in the server market,...
View ArticleAMD’s RDNA 2: Shooting For the Top
In 2019, AMD moved off their long-serving GCN architecture in favor of RDNA. We’ll cover the first generation of RDNA some other time. RDNA 2 takes that foundation and scales it up while adding...
View ArticleLoongson’s LSX and LASX Vector Extensions
Loongson used to make CPUs based off the MIPS ISA, but the company recently switched to a homegrown ISA called Loongarch. This “new” ISA retains many of MIPS’s semantics, but uses incompatible...
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