SILICON TALES
// ai infrastructure
NVIDIA AI Factory Blueprint: Match Silicon to Strategy
Which NVIDIA AI factory does your strategy actually need? A use-case-first blueprint, from RTX PRO to the Vera Rubin era.
Read the blueprint→FP401
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// top stories 01 / 15
// local ai
How Local LLMs Run: Memory and Hardware
How a prompt flows through eight stages, how much memory a model needs, and what fits on which machine, from the RTX 5090 to the GB300.
Read the guide→VRAM02
// retro
Commodore 64: the beige box that made a generation
The best-selling computer ever built, and the brutal price war a Holocaust survivor waged to make it.
Read the story→651003
// silicon history
Two Turkish Engineers Built the First GPU. History Forgot Them.
Two engineers met by chance in England, built the first real graphics processor, and put the word GPU in print years before NVIDIA. Then history handed the credit to someone else.
Read the story→GLINT04
// gaming hardware
ASUS ROG at Twenty: the republic that copper built
From a 2006 copper motherboard to the heart of PC gaming.
Read the story→Crosshair05
// retro
3dfx and the Voodoo That Taught Us to See
For one impossible stretch in the late nineties, a tiny company made the screen come alive. Then it made every mistake a market leader can make.
Read the story→Voodoo06
// wwdc 2026
Siri finally got a brain at WWDC 2026. Apple didn't build all of it.
A Gemini brain, a faster 2019 iPhone, and the keynote that quietly declared the app era over.
Read the analysis→1.2T07
// a working life
We commoditised intelligence. not judgement.
Anyone can order the box now. The hard part is the part it can't do for you.
Read the essay→ESSAY08
// ai hardware
Local LLMs got good. then AI outgrew your desk.
A $4,000 box, a slower model, and the math nobody runs before they buy.
Run the numbers→70B09
// semiconductors
ASML: the one machine the whole chip world needs
Every advanced chip on Earth runs through one machine only ASML can build. China has spent billions trying to copy it.
Read the story→EUV10
// ai hardware
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72: the field guide
The rack NVIDIA built to run the AI era, taken apart bolt by bolt.
Read the field guide→Rubin11
// analysis
NVIDIA is not a GPU company anymore
The graphics card was only ever the doorway. Here is what they really sell now.
Read the argument→CUDA12
// ai pcs
RTX Spark: did NVIDIA reinvent the PC?
NVIDIA folded a whole computer onto one chip and declared the PC reborn. Clever silicon, but who is it actually for?
Read the analysis→GB1013
// retro
Amiga 500: the home computer that felt like the future
Before the web, a beige wedge of plastic made a generation believe a machine could be a place.
Read the story→6800014
// analysis
SMIC vs TSMC: can China catch up?
TSMC prints the world's chips and money. SMIC builds 7nm without EUV under sanctions. Who owns the next decade?
Read the analysis→7nm15
// know-how archive
Make sense of the silicon age.
Technology is really a story about people: the bets, the rivalries, the breakthroughs, and the things we left behind. We care less about the specs than about why any of it matters and who fought to build it. We tell those stories clearly and honestly, with curiosity instead of hype.
// reader poll
Will AI agents take over most coding jobs by 2030?
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