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TurboQuant: Inner Workings and Implications
Google's year old research resurfaced in a recent blog post and spooked memory investors.
Mar 26 • Vikram Sekar
Beyond GTC: A Deep Dive into Compute, LPX, and the Untold Story of SpecDec
Analyzing the CPU, GPU, and LPU chip ratios unveiled at the Nvidia GTC keynote, the impact of the Groq LPX chip on disaggregated decoding, and its…
Mar 18 • Vikram Sekar
GTC 2026 Preview | Implications of Nvidia's SRAM-Decode Hardware on the Inference Market
The case for dedicated decode hardware and what it means for AMD, HBM, and the SRAM startup market.
Mar 4 • Vikram Sekar
The AI Datacenter CPU Yellow Pages
Grace, Vera, Venice, Turin, Diamond/Granite Rapids, Clearwater/Sierra Forest, Graviton, Cobalt, Phoenix, AmpereOne.
Feb 24 • Vikram Sekar
The CPU Bottleneck in Agentic AI and Why Server CPUs Matter More Than Ever
How agent orchestration shifts the CPU-GPU ratio, a framework for scoring server CPUs across reasoning and action workloads, applied to 17 datacenter…
Feb 17 • Vikram Sekar
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 • Vikram Sekar
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