PickVidsBest Computer architecture & CPUs Videos
The 148 Computer architecture & CPUs videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 60 intermediate, 45 for a general viewer, and 35 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Linus Tech Tips, Ben Eater, Gamers Nexus.
Intel ME explained (intel management engine) from insider
A short video explaining the Intel Management Engine, a hidden embedded computer inside Intel machines with deep access to hardware.
Why you shouldn't water cool your PC
Linus Tech Tips argues that big air coolers beat AIO liquid coolers for most PCs.
Apple Event — November 10, 2020
Apple's November 10, 2020 event introducing the Apple M1 chip and the new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini, along with macOS Big Sur.
Protected KVM on Arm64: A Technical Deep Dive - Quentin Perret, Google
Quentin Perret of Google gives a technical deep dive into protected KVM (pKVM) on Arm64, a confidential computing approach for CPUs without hardware extensions.
The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds
Scott Manley tells the story of a computerized telemetry system built to sit at the heart of a nuclear test device in place of the plutonium pit, designed to transmit data in the microseconds before it was destroyed.
WWDC 2020 Special Event Keynote — Apple
Apple's WWDC 2020 keynote covering iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, privacy, tvOS and macOS, and the announcement of the move of Macs to Apple silicon.
Dell SCAMMED Me - $1500 PC Secret Shopper 2 Part 4
Linus Tech Tips benchmarks the prebuilt PCs from its second Secret Shopper series, shares final thoughts on each integrator and picks a winner.
The Talk Show: Remote From WWDC 2020
John Gruber interviews Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak after WWDC 2020 about the Mac transition to Apple silicon, macOS Big Sur and iOS 14.
Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about whether Nvidia's moat will last.
Dr. Chris Mack Toasts the End of Moore's Law at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014
A brief toast by lithography expert Chris Mack at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2014, humorously declaring the end of Moore's Law.
Building AI Silicon
Jim Keller, CTO of Tenstorrent, talks at Samsung Foundry's SAFE 2021 about building AI silicon through modular, provable design.
Linus builds Linus’ new PC!
Linus Tech Tips replicates the Threadripper workstation Linus Torvalds built for himself, discussing the parts such as the CPU and cooler.
Fixing Apple's Engineering in an Hour
Linus Tech Tips water-cools a 2020 MacBook Air, tearing it down and showing the cooling design along the way.
George Hotz | Programming | can tinygrad whisper? | AMD Rant | Giving up on AMD | Speech to Text
A long George Hotz live-stream from June 2023 in which he works on tinygrad and rants about AMD's drivers, ultimately declaring he is giving up on AMD.
How did Microsoft screw this up? - Surface Pro X (SQ2) vs M1 Macbook Air
Linus Tech Tips compares Microsoft's Surface Pro X (SQ2) with the Apple M1 MacBook Air, focusing on how Windows on Arm and x86 emulation perform against Apple's Arm hardware.
I have some things to say - Core i9 & X299
Linus Tech Tips' rant on Intel's X299 platform and Core i9 launch, criticizing how Intel segments the market by limiting PCIe lanes and charging for features like VROC keys.
Nvidia Said We Couldn't Game On This Crypto Mining Card...
Linus Tech Tips tests a Chinese mining-only Nvidia card, hacked with a modified driver so it can render games and output video through an integrated GPU.
The One-Decade Task: Putting std::atomic in CUDA. - Olivier Giroux - CppCon 2019
Olivier Giroux's CppCon 2019 talk recounts the roughly ten-year effort to bring std::atomic and the C++ memory model to CUDA GPUs, through ten stories from that work.
GTC March 2024 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang's two-hour NVIDIA GTC March 2024 keynote announcing AI hardware and software advances, including Blackwell, omniverse, robotics and digital twins.
Scumbag ASUS: Overvolting CPUs & Screwing the Customer
Gamers Nexus criticizes ASUS over its handling of exploding Ryzen CPUs, overvolting BIOS settings and warranty and support behavior.
Apple WWDC 2005-The Intel Switch Revealed
Steve Jobs's WWDC 2005 keynote segment announcing Apple's move from PowerPC to Intel processors, and revealing that Mac OS X had been secretly built for Intel all along.
Louis opens new Macbook Air, immediately loses mind.
Louis Rossmann opens a new MacBook Air and reacts to its cooling design, where the fan does not appear to be thermally connected to the CPU heatsink.
Windows 11 on Pentium 4
Enderman gets Windows 11 running on a Pentium 4 system with a Radeon HD 5870 and 8 GB of DDR2.
RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite
Gamers Nexus benchmarks GPU gaming performance on Linux using the Bazzite OS, an exploratory first step toward establishing a Linux testing methodology.