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MicroLEDs vs. Lasers: The Linewidth Tradeoff

πŸͺ TWiC: Samsung SiPho, Mobile Demand, Nvidia+Marvell, Intel Fab, Claude Leak, ++

Why the DRAM Structural Floor in the AI Era Makes This Time Different

πŸͺ TWiC: TurboQuant, AGI CPU, GF Sues Tower, CPU Price Hikes, 400G SiPho, AAOI, ++

TurboQuant: Inner Workings and Implications

Grating Coupled COUPE for CPO, and Himax's Fragile FAU Moat

πŸͺ TWiC: MU HBM4, OCI MSA, Credo Optics, VCSEL Scale-Up, DGX GB300, NBIS $27B

Beyond GTC: A Deep Dive into Compute, LPX, and the Untold Story of SpecDec

πŸͺ TWiC: MTIA x4, AVGO 400G, UMC, Nebius, SiPho Readiness++

Why Optical Circuit Switching is Arista Networks’ Long-Term Problem

πŸͺ TWiC: Nvidia $2B, The Hock Shock, Credo's A(E/L)C, Ayar Series E, Intel Changes, Memory

GTC 2026 Preview | Implications of Nvidia's SRAM-Decode Hardware on the Inference Market

πŸͺ TWiC: AMD+Meta, New AI Chips, Citrini

The AI Datacenter CPU Yellow Pages

πŸͺ TWiC: Meta+Nvidia, AI Toilet Play, AI EDA SaaSocalypse?

The CPU Bottleneck in Agentic AI and Why Server CPUs Matter More Than Ever

πŸͺ TWiC: HBM4, SiPho's Rise, Memory eats All, 2nm Mo-Contacts,++

AI Datacenters Drink More Water Than You Think

πŸͺ TWiC: Google/AWS CapEx, NVIDIA GPUs, SaaS, TXN+SLAB

Lumentum: Laser Demand, OCS, CPO and Optical Scale-Up

Newsletter Update: Semi Doped Podcast, Jan Articles and Feb Plans

πŸͺ TWiC: Maia 200, H200 in China, Micron's $24B Fab, Meta is ↑, MediaTek ASICs ++

High Stakes Advanced Node Poker: TSMC Goes All-in, Intel Folds

Context Memory Storage Systems, Disruption of Agentic AI Tokenomics, and Memory Pooling Flash vs DRAM

Errata: A Close Look at SRAM for Inference in the Age of HBM Supremacy

A Close Look at SRAM for Inference in the Age of HBM Supremacy

2025 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM): Detailed Conference Report