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Semiconductor strategy and the AI hardware race — Nvidia, AMD, custom silicon, foundry capacity and interconnect economics.
H200 vs B200: Specs, Real Benchmarks and Cost

H200 vs B200: Specs, Real Benchmarks and Cost

B200's real advantage over H200 is 1.6x to 2.3x, not the 4x NVIDIA's FP4 headline implies. Verified specs, MLPerf results at matched precision, and current rental prices.
John Karpentar Chips 8 min read
Cornelis Puts Compute Inside the AI Network

Cornelis Puts Compute Inside the AI Network

How a $205 million round and a Qualcomm alliance are being spent on an argument that the 15% of an AI system nobody optimizes determines the value of the other 85%.
John Karpentar Chips 5 min read
Fortaegis Bets Security Belongs in the Silicon

Fortaegis Bets Security Belongs in the Silicon

How a four-year-old Amsterdam company raised $50 million on the argument that AI and quantum computing have made bolt-on security architecturally obsolete.
John Karpentar Chips 6 min read
Positron's $5 Billion Bet Against HBM

Positron's $5 Billion Bet Against HBM

How an $875 million round on commodity LPDDR5X memory challenges the HBM bottleneck that gates every AI accelerator shipping today.
John Karpentar Chips 6 min read
Top 7 Edge AI Platforms and Chips in 2026

Top 7 Edge AI Platforms and Chips in 2026

For engineers choosing silicon for robots, cameras, drones and industrial systems in 2026 - a year when edge accelerators stopped being vision-only parts and started running language models locally.
John Karpentar Roundups 12 min read
Nvidia's $3.5 Billion MediaTek Gambit

Nvidia's $3.5 Billion MediaTek Gambit

Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds to lock the chipmaker into its NVLink Fusion standard for custom AI silicon — the latest in a pattern of Nvidia financing the very partners and customers positioned to challenge it.
Daniel Krauz Chips 5 min read
Why Every AI Giant Now Wants Its Own Chip

Why Every AI Giant Now Wants Its Own Chip

How Meta, OpenAI, Google, Amazon and Microsoft all reached the same conclusion within months of each other: renting Nvidia's silicon is no longer enough
Daniel Krauz Chips 5 min read

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