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TL;DR Agents do need more CPU than chatbots did, but no published study shows the right number is one CPU per GPU. In real traffic, the CPU work of running code and searching databases took as long as the model itself in over a quarter of requests. The chips being sold for this are ordinary…
Read MoreA petabyte in a single drive has been the storage industry’s next round number for a while. As of this summer, enough of it is on the public record to reconstruct. At FMS 2026, Kioxia and Sandisk unveiled their 10th-generation QLC 3D flash memory: 332 layers, more than 37 Gb/mm², and up to 60% denser…
Read MoreMarket snapshot: August 7–8, 2026 | United States | USD | New and used advertised pricing The finding Across the RTX 50 stack, how far a card trades above its launch MSRP lines up almost perfectly with how much memory it carries — and barely at all with where it sits in the performance stack.…
Read MoreCalibration is priced by the work an instrument requires — bench time, test points, reference standards, paperwork. It is not priced as a fraction of what the instrument is worth. That sounds too obvious to matter. Follow it across a price ladder and it stops being obvious. A calibration bill that barely registers against a…
Read MoreGraphics card prices in Korea may climb as much as 30% from August. On August 1, Xbox consoles went up $100 to $150 worldwide and the 2TB Series X was discontinued outright, with Microsoft citing console storage and memory costs up more than 2.5x. Intuition says an AI buildout is a GPU buildout, so accelerators…
Read MoreMemory and storage spent most of July moving in opposite directions, an unusual split in this cycle. In the final week, NAND reversed and joined DRAM on the way up. TrendForce’s DDR4 8Gb spot benchmark rose from $36.00 on June 30 to $42.08 on July 28, an increase of 16.9%. Its 512Gb TLC NAND benchmark…
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