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YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design
15 Nov 2024 | original ↗

LLMs don’t make chips better. Good engineers do.

Approximate Computing for Secure AI Chips
10 Nov 2024 | original ↗

A new use-case for approximate computing.

The Megafund Problem
31 Oct 2024 | original ↗

VCs seem to be taking fewer risks. Why?

Why are so many startups developing PCB design tools?
25 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Part 2: Quilter, and building a compiler for the physical world

Why are so many startups developing PCB design tools?
11 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Part 1: Diode, and connecting language models to the physical world.

Why is Cerebras trying to go public right now?
2 Oct 2024 | original ↗

And should you consider investing if they do?

You Probably Shouldn’t Drop out of College
27 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Especially if you want to be an electrical engineer.

Why are so many startups developing chip design tools?
18 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Part 2: Silimate and the power of AI in chip design.

Why are so many startups developing chip design tools?
9 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Part 1: Primitive Instruments, and hardware at the speed of software.

The most secure chip in the world just got hacked.
6 Sept 2024 | original ↗

How do we stop this from happening again?

The Basics of Side Channel Analysis
30 Aug 2024 | original ↗

In which zach learns to hack.

Why do so many startups sell to other startups?
25 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Also: co-working in NYC, and Normal Computing is hiring!

What makes a city's "tech scene" good?
16 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Tech hubs and tech hubris.

Boltzmann Sampling on Coupled Oscillator Architectures
9 Aug 2024 | original ↗

The Count of Monte Carlo

The Missing Silicon Venture Studio
2 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Building chip companies could be so much easier.

Chiplets: the future of semiconductor IP
26 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Tiny chiplets, big dreams.

How to Privately Query Cloud AI Models
19 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Obfuscated Queries, explained.

Why doesn’t anybody understand what Palantir does?
11 Jul 2024 | original ↗

And why does Anduril have so many products?

Solving the Randomness Bottleneck in Stochastic Computing
5 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Could AI revive an architecture from the 1950s?

Stop trying to make Etched happen.
28 Jun 2024 | original ↗

If you raise $120M, at least try to write an honest press release.

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