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Two years ago, the GPU question answered itself. During the 2023–2024 shortage, H100 capacity often rented for $7 to $10 per GPU-hour when it could be found at all, and buying hardware was the only way to guarantee access. That world is gone. On-demand H100 SXM instances now list at $3.99 per GPU-hour on specialized…
Read MoreOn July 15, ASML confirmed that Intel had become the first company to ship high-volume logic chips manufactured with High-NA EUV lithography. Some of the Core Ultra Series 3 processors going into laptops right now contain layers printed on a machine that, until this year, had never produced a commercial chip. It is a real…
Read MoreThe head of SK Hynix’s parent group told Bloomberg TV that the company may move beyond selling memory chips and offer “Memory as a Service” (MaaS) — memory capacity delivered like a cloud subscription rather than a product shipped in a box. He was candid that MaaS is still “an idea at this point.” No…
Read MoreThe third-quarter memory numbers are starting to land, and they say the squeeze is nowhere near done. Contract negotiations point to another 20–30% increase for DRAM and 35–40% for NAND in Q3 2026. The more conservative survey puts it at 13–18% for conventional DRAM and 10–15% for NAND, quarter over quarter. The two forecasts disagree…
Read MoreOn June 30, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output during its introductory window — less than half the $5 and $25 the flagship Opus 4.8 charges, while scoring 63.2 to the flagship’s 69.2 on the SWE-bench Pro coding benchmark. Roughly ninety percent of the capability…
Read MoreHow data actually moves through an AI server, why HBM became the industry’s tightest bottleneck, and where projected technologies like High Bandwidth Flash and CXL fit into the picture. The common mental model of AI hardware goes something like this: a GPU loads the model into its memory, then starts computing. Simple. It is also…
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