Long-form technical essays on GPU execution, accelerator compilers and low-precision number formats, backed by code reading, simulations and measurements. Recent issues cover how LLM inference benchmarks can mislead, how Google's TPU compiler can be used to inspect hardware without owning one, and how FP4 block scaling affects accuracy and perplexity.
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In-depth analysis of the semiconductor and AI infrastructure industries, covering chips, software stacks, datacenter buildout and equipment makers. Readers get original research, proprietary data and company-level conclusions on how hardware trends affect business.
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Long-form technical overviews that explain important AI research topics, such as LLM evaluation, post-training and reinforcement learning. Readers get first-principles explanations plus practical implementation details drawn from papers and tech reports.
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