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  • Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems

    Wednesday, March 25, 2026

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    Arm is selling its own chips, not just licensing IP. It’s a big change compared to Arm’s history, but not surprising given how computing is evolving.


  • OpenAI and Broadcom, ChatGPT and XPUs, AMD and Nvidia

    Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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    OpenAI’s deal with Broadcom makes perfect sense, because OpenAI already knows exactly what workloads it needs to optimize.


  • OpenAI’s Windows Play

    Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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    OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI: the all-encompassing platform that controls both hardware supplier and software developers.


  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin About AI Infrastructure

    Thursday, October 2, 2025

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    An Interview with Ben Bajarin about AI infrastructure, Nvidia, and Intel.


  • Nvidia and Intel, Tan’s Earnings Call Negotiation, Deal Specifics

    Monday, September 22, 2025

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    Intel and Nvidia have made a historic deal; it’s good for Intel (and Nvidia), but doesn’t solve their — and the U.S.’s — fundamental problems.


  • An Interview with Dan Kim About Intel, Nvidia, and the U.S. Government

    Thursday, September 11, 2025

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    An interview with Dan Kim about the CHIPS program, why the U.S. took a stake in Intel, and the fraught dispute about Nvidia and China.


  • China AI Chips, A China Chip Control Framework, Whither HBM

    Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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    President’s Trump plan for the U.S. to get paid by Nvidia and AMD for China exports is dubious, but overall policy is headed in the right direction.


  • xAI Raising Money, xAI and Oracle, Xbox = Windows

    Wednesday, June 18, 2025

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    Everyone wants xAI to exist, but is anyone actually using it? Then, Xbox as it once existed is dead; it’s just Windows now.


  • An Interview with Tae Kim about Jensen Huang and The Nvidia Way

    Thursday, December 5, 2024

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    An interview with Tae Kim about his new book, The Nvidia Way, and how Jensen Huang built Nvidia to continuously invent the future.


  • Intel and AMD to Collaborate on x86, A History of Intel and AMD, ARM and AI

    Wednesday, October 16, 2024

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    Intel and AMD are coming together to evolve x86; this is a shock given their history, but not a surprise given their reality.


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