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Errata: A Close Look at SRAM for Inference in the Age of HBM Supremacy
An update on SRAM bandwidth calculations.
8 hrs ago
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Vikram Sekar
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A Close Look at SRAM for Inference in the Age of HBM Supremacy
Why SRAM for AI inference is far from the silver bullet everyone is expecting, an in-depth look into SRAM's specific performance benefits, and why HBM…
Jan 11
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Vikram Sekar
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Subbu
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2025 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM): Detailed Conference Report
Coverage of the world's premier conference on semiconductor devices.
Jan 4
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Vikram Sekar
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December 2025
NVIDIA-Groq: The Occam's Razor Explanation
Maybe its not the 4D chess everyone thinks it is ...
Dec 25, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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2025: The Year in Review
Newsletter growth stats, locking in your current subscription rates, and personal reflections from writing a publication for 2 years.
Dec 23, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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Interview: Indium Phosphide Lasers and Photonic Integration with Prof. Martijn Heck, TU Eindhoven
InP lasers, heterogeneous integration, wafer sizes and yield, supply chain and ecosystem, quantum dot lasers, and balancing utility of technology with…
Dec 20, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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CPO Fears, Credo, and Role of AEC in 1.6T Networking
A rational, engineering-centric approach to understanding the future of active electrical cables in the era of CPO and 1.6T datacenter networking.
Dec 15, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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Executive Brief: How d-Matrix's In-Memory Compute Tackles AI Inference Economics
Watch now | Video essay, key takeaways, and Google Doc of full post for your LLM use.
Dec 10, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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How d-Matrix's In-Memory Compute Tackles AI Inference Economics
A deep look into the architecture from chip construction to rack-scale deployments, performance metrics, and end applications.
Dec 9, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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Is Optics Really the Next Memory?
More thoughts on a viral tweet, and how Lumentum's record earnings hint at a broader shift in datacenter interconnects.
Dec 1, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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November 2025
Executive Brief: A Complete Guide to Optical Transceiver Nomenclature
Video essay, summary tables of information, additional reading, and Google Doc of full post for your LLM use.
Nov 26, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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A Complete Guide to Optical Transceiver Nomenclature
Decoding the alphabet soup of form factors, reach classifications, modulation schemes, and everything in between.
Nov 24, 2025
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Vikram Sekar
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