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How Mellanox set the stage for NVIDIA’s AI dominance and signaled the Storage Supercycle
Deep dive of the MLNX+NVIDIA partnership, GPUDirect RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, Bluefield DPU, Spectrum-X, and what could be coming next
Feb 6 • Subbu
Analysis of NVIDIA’s Bluefield-4 DPU and KV-Cache Context Memory Storage Platform (CES 2026): Architecture, Strategy, Dynamo, WEKA…
At CES 2026, NVIDIA announced the Context Memory Storage Platform, a new appliance designed to expand KV cache capacity beyond the GPU rack.
Jan 11 • Subbu
A Deep Dive into NVIDIA Rubin CPX: History, Architecture, Splitwise/DistServe, Inference Economics, and Limitations
A first principles analysis of why NVIDIA decided to make this new class of accelerator
Dec 27, 2025 • Subbu
Analysis of NVIDIA DGX Spark's GB10 SoC
Architecture, methodology, and memory interface of the GB10 SoC
Oct 21, 2025 • Subbu
5 different ways DRAM and Compute are integrated
Examples of how GDDR, DDR, LPDDR, HBM and 3D DRAM are integrated with compute
Oct 5, 2025 • Subbu
Fundamental guide to understanding DRAM performance and timing parameters
How DRAM timing parameters affect HBM, LPDDR, GDDR bandwidth. How to get the most performance out of your memory.
Aug 25, 2025 • Subbu
Fundamental guide to understanding DRAM Memory
Fundamental concepts behind HBM, LPDDR, GDDR and such memories
Aug 10, 2025 • Subbu
3 Great Examples of how ASICs and FPGAs are used as Accelerators
Fast inverse square root, blazing fast regex pattern matching, matrix arithmetic and more...
Jul 27, 2025 • Subbu
How to prepare and apply for hardware engineering jobs
A guide especially for new college grads and early in career engineers
Jul 14, 2025 • Subbu
How Intel makes sure the FDIV bug never happens again
The people and breakthroughs behind Intel’s quiet revolution in formal verification
Apr 25, 2025 • Subbu
3 reasons why everyone must pursue a side project
Side projects are the antidote that your doctor did not prescribe, but should have. In this essay, we will look at three uses of this drug-free therapy.
Dec 28, 2024 • Subbu
Apprentice, Specialist, Lieutenant, Leader - Ideas on how to craft your career
As an individual contributor, should you be a jack of many trades or a master of one?
Nov 17, 2024 • Subbu
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