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Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities. Because they’re less performance sensitive, 5-series cores tend to be superseded less often than their more sophisticated counterparts. Cortex A53 started out Arm’s 5-series lineup in 2012, and served across three generations of 7-series cores (A57, A72...

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Today we are talking about one of the stranger x86 stories I have seen in a while. According to both SemiAccurate and

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Today we are over AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event to chit chat on their newly revealed CDNA5 architecture with Alan Smith! AMD's Corporate Fellow and Chief Architect for Datacenter GPUs.

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George: So, wh...

Hello you fine Internet folks, here at AMD’s Advancing AI event we are looking at AMD’s brand new Instinct MI455X, replacing the older Instinct MI355X at the top of their AI stack. It is AMD’s first GPU designed for rack-scale AI deployments and is based on the new CDNA5 architecture with major changes to the compute unit and SoC, including enhancements to compute performance...

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.

So if you want to know what GFX1250 is changing compared to the pr...