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

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January 2026

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

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December 2025

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

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October 2025

Analysis of NVIDIA DGX Spark's GB10 SoC

Architecture, methodology, and memory interface of the GB10 SoC

Oct 21, 2025 • Subbu

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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

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August 2025

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

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Fundamental guide to understanding DRAM Memory

Fundamental concepts behind HBM, LPDDR, GDDR and such memories

Aug 10, 2025 • Subbu

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July 2025

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

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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

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April 2025

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

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December 2024

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

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November 2024

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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