Oct 3, 2026

What Changed in C-Kernel-Engine This September

September was the month C-Kernel-Engine started to feel less like a collection of model demonstrations and more like a system I could keep extending. That is not the same as saying it is fin...

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Oct 2, 2026

ALBERT: How Kokoro's Phoneme Encoder Works, and Where CKE Has Reached It

In the last post I stopped at a [36,128] tensor: 36 phonemes, each mapped to a 128-number vector by three small lookup tables plus a normalization. That tensor is where the boring part ends ...

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Sep 29, 2026

Kokoro Is Reaching Generated C One Boundary at a Time

Kokoro's phoneme encoder just took its first concrete step into CKE's generated-C lane. The step is deliberately small: one operation — three embedding tables plus a per-token LayerNorm �...

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Sep 27, 2026

How Kokoro TTS Works, and Where CKE Stands

I have been working on speech recognition in C-Kernel-Engine for a while. Whisper can transcribe my own videos. The other direction is becoming more interesting to me now: I want my Linux wo...

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Sep 27, 2026

I Want To Use My Linux Workstation Without Looking At It

I Want To Use My Linux Workstation Without Looking At It I have spent a lot of time building software that lets me run AI models on CPUs. Now I want to use some of that work for a more perso...

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Sep 23, 2026

From Native Kernels to Generated Audio Circuits: Parakeet and Cohere in CKE

A measured two-CPU investigation of how CKE moved Parakeet and Cohere into generated C, including six complete 42-minute runs, exact cross-host transcripts, performance bottlenecks, and rema...

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Sep 19, 2026

How Ericsson Edge Routers Shaped CKE

My Ericsson work combined Linux systems programming with a larger router architecture spanning service discovery, IPC, recursive lookup, TCAM, NPUs, DPDK and live forwarding. Those two layer...

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Sep 13, 2026

How to Get Started With C-Kernel-Engine on Linux

Run CKE manually or use the included local coding-agent prompt to inspect Linux, install dependencies, execute a small Gemma model, and preserve the evidence.

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Sep 13, 2026

Beyond Whisper: CKE Runs Parakeet and Cohere Across 42 Minutes on CPUs

CKE now runs three CPU audio paths on the same 42-minute recording: Whisper is practical and fast, Cohere produces deterministic text and SRT across Intel and AMD, and NVIDIA Parakeet works ...

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Sep 9, 2026

What CKE Fixed Today: Honest Evidence and Faster CPU Whisper

CKE hardened its evidence and Whisper runtime, culminating in persistent workers that cut a controlled 42:22 transcription from 171.60 to 138.73 seconds without changing retained outputs.

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Sep 6, 2026

How CKE Brought Up Qwen3.8 Flash Next

Qwen3.8 Flash Next brought hyper-connections, Per-Layer Embedding, recurrent DeltaNet, query-selected sparse attention and mixed packed experts into one CKE circuit. This is what changed, wh...

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Sep 5, 2026

I Used CKE To Transcribe My Video. It Found A Bug In My Compiler.

Yesterday I recorded the second video in my kernel engineering series. Since C-Kernel-Engine already had Whisper support, I wanted to use it to transcribe my own recording. Not another small...

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Sep 2, 2026

How Audio Becomes Words: Whisper's Kernels, Step By Step, On A CPU

A kernel-by-kernel walkthrough of how C-Kernel-Engine runs Whisper end to end in generated FP32 C: the eight signal-processing frontend kernels that turn a WAV into 1500 tokens, the full sti...

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Aug 26, 2026

CKE Now Runs More Than Qwen: Cohere, Laguna, Instella, Nemotron And More

A detailed look at CKE's expanded model-family matrix, what each architecture added to the kernel portfolio, and why support must be reported with an evidence level rather than one generic c...

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Aug 25, 2026

One Ryzen, 128K Context, And A 27B Model: What Qwen3.8 Generated With CKE

Two measured Qwen3.8-27B runs used a real 128K prompt on one Ryzen CPU to generate complete technical SVGs, then exposed CKE's next cache, traffic and distributed-computing targets.

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Aug 23, 2026

CKE Added Qwen3.8 In About An Hour. The Architecture Is Starting To Pay Off

Qwen3.8 became an explicit CKE model circuit without a runtime fork or a new arithmetic kernel. Merged Ryzen bring-up and 4,000-step X-Ray certification show what reusable numerical provider...

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Aug 22, 2026

CKE Zip: From Splitting Tokens To Splitting Qwen3.5 Weights

How CKE moved from token-row prefill sharding to a weight-sharded Qwen3.5 transformer block, what reconstructed correctly, and why one Ryzen still beats the current heterogeneous pair.

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Aug 22, 2026

I Spent CAD $9,575 Building CKE's CPU AI Lab

A receipt-backed account of CKE's founder-funded Intel and AMD CPU lab, the experiments each node unlocks, and the controlled access path planned for collaborators.

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Aug 21, 2026

Training vs Inference in CKE: One Interface Discipline For Both Lanes

CKE is not inference-only. Six DSL hardening PRs taught the compiler to reject quiet boundary mismatches: map interfaces, port-vs-ABI validation, ranked providers, and faithful traces — on...

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Aug 20, 2026

The Qwen3-VL CPU Gap vs llama.cpp: A Build Log That Keeps Getting Measured

CKE moved a Qwen3-VL OCR path from ~281s to ~76.7s against a llama.cpp baseline of ~55.8s — not a victory lap, a map. Revisited after the harness era: corpus certification, X-Ray parity, a...

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Aug 6, 2026

Linux Memory Allocation: malloc, mmap, Pages, TLBs, and Huge Pages

What actually happens between malloc and the CPU streaming gigabytes: pages, the two kinds of page fault, the TLB, huge pages, and why madvise is advice not a guarantee. A CKE-focused follow...

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Aug 5, 2026

Training vs Inference in CKE: One Interface Discipline For Both Lanes

CKE is not inference-only. The v7 training and v8 inference lanes share one compiler-interface discipline.

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Aug 4, 2026

A Green Checkmark Should Name Its Machine: How CKE's Nightly Report Became Evidence

A green CI badge is an argument, not a decoration. CKE's nightly report now captures and publishes its runner's hardware identity, renders it as an amber identity plate, and teaches operator...

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Aug 2, 2026

How CKE Made Whisper Faster In Two Days — And The Evidence That Makes It Believable

The two days after the July books closed The July recap closed its Whisper chapter at a 2.7x gap to whisper.cpp: 1.53–1.58 seconds on the controlled Base fixture against 0.567 seconds for ...

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Aug 1, 2026

What CKE Built In July 2026: Vision, Audio, X-Ray And Faster CPU Inference

A source-linked July recap of 194 PRs and 32 articles: multimodal models, long-context numerical parity, compiler and test hardening, CPU evidence, contributors, and the path toward distribu...

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Jul 31, 2026

How CKE Made Qwen3.6 Prefill 2.6x Faster

How CKE used exact head parallelism and packed quantized kernels to accelerate Qwen3.6-27B Q4_K_M prefill 2.6x on one 5th Gen Xeon node, while remaining about 1.85x behind llama.cpp.

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Jul 29, 2026

How CKE X-Ray Found Qwen3.6's First Bad Circuit

Follow a real CKE X-Ray investigation from a wrong Qwen3.6 token to a grouped recurrent-topology mismatch, including what passes and what remains open.

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Jul 28, 2026

Kimi K3 Open Weights: What Is Actually New In Its 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Architecture?

Read Kimi K3 from its released config, model code, and technical report: the new kernels, the role of scale and training, and what a distributed CPU runtime would need to implement.

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Jul 26, 2026

Teaching C-Kernel-Engine To Listen: Whisper Tiny, End To End On v8

An earlier article explained how an audio transformer hears: waveform to frames, frames to log-Mel features, features to encoder states, states to decoded text. This article is the implement...

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Jul 24, 2026

Hugging Face Got Hacked By A Closed Model. A Closed Model Also Refused To Help Fix It.

A closed OpenAI evaluation model compromised Hugging Face, while hosted models later refused forensic evidence. The incident strengthens the case for open weights and practical local CPU AI.

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Jul 23, 2026

What Numerical Parity Actually Requires: BF16, Quantization, ISA Drift And CKE X-Ray

Numerical parity is not one BF16 tolerance. Trace how CKE uses llama.cpp, PyTorch, X-Ray, replay provenance and phase-owned kernel contracts to locate the first divergence.

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Jul 21, 2026

GLM4 Bring-Up In CKE: What A New Model Family Actually Requires

A source-backed walkthrough of how C-Kernel-Engine brings up GLM4 through model contracts, tensor mapping, pairwise partial RoPE, generated C, parity tools, and explicit evidence boundaries.

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Jul 19, 2026

Prefill vs Decode in CKE: Why One Model Needs GEMM, GEMV, and Two Execution Plans

Follow an LLM request from tokenization through prefill, KV-cache construction and decode, then see why CPU projections become GEMM or GEMV and how CKE compares them with llama.cpp.

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Jul 14, 2026

Nemotron Kernels From Inference To Backpropagation

A visual, source-linked derivation of Nemotron inference, training forward, backpropagation, and quantization across Mamba2, attention, ReLU2, and routed experts.

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Jul 13, 2026

Nemotron Is Not One Circuit: Mamba, Attention, And MoE Routing

How Nemotron mixes recurrent state, attention, dense MLP, and routed experts, and why exact routing becomes a CPU memory and scheduling problem.

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Jul 12, 2026

Gemma4-VL In CKE: How Images Become Decoder Tokens

How Gemma4-VL turns image patches into decoder-width visual tokens, why its vision bridge differs from Qwen3-VL, and how CKE is preparing compatibility.

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Jul 11, 2026

Gemma4 In CKE: Four Attention Paths, Shared KV, And Sliding Windows

How C-Kernel-Engine represents Gemma4 attention and per-layer RoPE from model metadata through IR, kernel maps, and generated C.

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Jul 7, 2026

DeepSeek-V4 Architecture From Kernels: mHC, CSA, HCA, DSA, and C-Kernel-Engine

A kernel-level reading of DeepSeek-V4: mHC residual lanes, CSA/HCA compressed attention, DSA sparse selection, MoE dispatch, low precision, and what those ideas mean for C-Kernel-Engine.

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