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Samsung’s US semiconductor President Paul Cho, after sitting down with Patrick Moorhead at Six Five’s #AIUnleashed26: “Memory is the computer.” For decades the industry optimized for compute, measured progress in FLOPS, and sized memory around whatever the accelerator could do. That sequence is over. Throughput — concurrent users, time-to-answer, tokens per second — is set by memory bandwidth, not peak FLOPS. The constraint that matters now is usable bandwidth per watt. Design order flipped with it. Used to be: pick compute first, attach memory. Now memory capacity, bandwidth, and power often decide whether the system works at all. Customers are pulling memory vendors into architecture years earlier. That is the market catching up. Cho’s closer is the part that sticks: the apps that win will not be the ones with the most memory. They will be the ones that actually use the bandwidth they have. Samsung’s line: we are not just selling bits anymore. We are selling bandwidth.

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The Great Silicon Pivot Hyperscalers stopped treating NVIDIA as the whole stack. Inference cost, HBM bandwidth, and power — not CUDA libraries — forced the move to custom ASICs. Meta MTIA → 27.6 TB/s Microsoft Maia 200 → already in Azure Amazon Trainium3 → and +2M NVIDIA GPUs for ’27–’28 Google TPU 8t / 8i → 9,600-chip domains OpenAI Jalapeño, Apple Baltra, Tesla Dojo Custom silicon is cost control. Not a full NVIDIA replacement. Second post on Silicon Valley Trivopaedia.

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Hot Chips week made inference architecture feel chaotic — Vera Rubin, LPX, zHBM, racks over chips. This piece cuts through it cleanly: inference is no longer one job. Prefill and decode have different clocks, different memory needs, and different economics. NVIDIA pairing Rubin GPUs with Groq LPX racks is not a retreat from GPUs — it is the first large-scale bet that the market is becoming heterogeneous systems, not ASIC replacement. The real story is memory architecture now defining what an accelerator even is. I am a fan of @NuttyCLD's article. Highly recommended read.

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Fair critique on the off-chip bottleneck of Cerebras $CBRS WSE-3, but isn't that misapplying the architecture? Force-fitting MemoryX/streaming erases its unique SRAM bandwidth advantage anyway. The cleaner approach is accepting the wafer boundary, keeping SRAM-bound work strictly on-chip, and scaling the broader system heterogeneously.

@SemiAnalysis_ — Off-chip bandwidth has always been the weak point of wafer-scale. The WSE-3 has staggering on-wafer SRAM bandwidth, but everything slows down the moment data has to leave the wafer…

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I agree with Jukan's conclusive statements as one of the logic designers: - HBM will one day be replaced. - The ultimate direction is the combination of memory and logic.

@jukan05 — HBM will one day be replaced. The ultimate direction is the combination of memory and logic.

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I’m excited to launch the official Substack at https://SVTrivo.com as @SVTrivo handle name and publish our very first deep-dive article! While Papa Johns will continue to drive most of the technical breakdown, I’m also bringing in John (specializing in International Affairs & Politics) as a guest author to cover broader economic impacts and the geopolitical landscape around semiconductors. Over the next week, I’ll be migrating existing scattered threads and fine-tuning the platform setup. To kick things off, all new subscribers get a 7-day free trial to explore our full-length research. Expect much deeper, comprehensive analysis here than what fits on X. Thanks for joining the journey!

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SFO → IAD on @united. Free @Starlink Wi-Fi for MileagePlus members. Speed test at cruise: • 100 Mbps down • 40.8 Mbps up This is the first inflight Starlink connection that actually feels like the internet.

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Major milestone for @SKhynix in Indiana! But with packaging in the U.S. and memory cores still produced in Korea, the big debate is starting: Trump wants new memory fabs built in the U.S., threatening Korea’s plans for a new hub in Gwangju-Jeonnam.

@SKhynix — A new chapter for AI memory begins in Indiana. SK hynix has broken ground on its first U.S. HBM production base…

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Paid a visit to Micro Center and encountered a glitch in the matrix: Open Box chair for $315, Brand New for $199. The staff was as confused as I was. Easiest decision ever—grabbed the sealed box and ran!

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In the airplane, I have time and an internet connection with @Starlink. I purchased a domain first before arriving in Washington D.C. Same as my X handle name, @SVTrivo, as a Silicon Valley Trivopaedia. https://SVTrivo.com is mine.

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