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2025
xAI’s Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World, Unique RL Methodology, Capital Raiseoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
Huawei Ascend Production Ramp: Die Banks, TSMC Continued Production, HBM is The Bottleneckoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2025
H100 vs GB200 NVL72 Training Benchmarks – Power, TCO, and Reliability Analysis, Software Improvement Over Timeoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
30 Jul 2025
Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backside Power Adoption (or Not), China’s FlipFET, Digital Twins from Atoms to Fabs, and Moreoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2025
3 Jul 2025
11 Jun 2025
8 Jun 2025
23 May 2025
Microsoft’s Datacenter Freeze – 1.5GW Self-Build Slowdown & Lease Cancellation Misconceptionsoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2025
23 Apr 2025
High-NA is Here (for R&D), EUV Cost, Pattern Shaping Gaining Share, 6×12″ Mask, Metal Oxide & Dry Resist, Hyper-NAoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2025
Tariff Armageddon? | GPU Loopholes, Mexico Supply Chain Shift, Wafer Fab Equipment Vulnerabilities, Optical Module Pricing Surge, Datacenter Equipmentoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2025
NVIDIA GTC 2025 – Built For Reasoning, Vera Rubin, Kyber, CPO, Dynamo Inference, Jensen Math, Feynmanoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2025
TSMC N2 + Next-Gen SoIC, Intel EMIB-T, Meta 3D Stacked Memory, CFET, 2D Materials, and Moreoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2025
DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impactsoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2025
OpenAI Stargate Joint Venture Demystified | Microsoft Sore Loser, Does Softbank Have The Capital?, Texas GigaCampus, Winners & Losersoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2025
2025 AI Diffusion Export Controls – Microsoft Regulatory Capture, Oracle Tears, Impacts Quantified, Model Restrictionsoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2025
2024
Nvidia’s Christmas Present: GB300 & B300 – Reasoning Inference, Amazon, Memory, Supply Chainoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2024
Scaling Laws – O1 Pro Architecture, Reasoning Training Infrastructure, Orion and Claude 3.5 Opus “Failures”original ↗
11 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024
4 Sept 2024
100,000 H100 Clusters: Power, Network Topology, Ethernet vs InfiniBand, Reliability, Failures, Checkpointingoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2024
30 May 2024
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024
16 Mar 2024
3 Feb 2024
Intel GenAI For Yield, TSMC CFET & 3D Stacking, AMD 3D Device Modeling, Applied Materials Material Innovation, SK Hynix HBM4, Micron 3D DRAM & FeRAM, Hybrid Bonding vs TCB – IEDM 2023original ↗
3 Jan 2024
2023
Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team – GPU Capacity, Incentive Structure, Intellectual Property, OpenAI Rump Stateoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023
Nvidia’s New China AI Chips Circumvent US Restrictions | H20 Faster Than H100 | Huawei Ascend 910Boriginal ↗
9 Nov 2023
24 Oct 2023
Nvidia’s Plans To Crush Competition – B100, “X100”, H200, 224G SerDes, OCS, CPO, PCIe 7.0, HBM3Eoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2023
20 Aug 2023
Energizing AI: Power Delivery Competition Heats Up Vicor, MPS, Delta, ADI, Renesas, Infineonoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2023
NAND Flash Monopoly Broken? Tokyo Electron Moly Dep + Cryo Etch Takes On Lam Research For The Future Of NANDoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023
AMD MI300 – Taming The Hype – AI Performance, Volume Ramp, Customers, Cost, IO, Networking, Softwareoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2023
28 May 2023
13 May 2023