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Ep. 027 - OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell (Accelerators) This week Bryan, Myron and Jordan (Jordan Nanos) discuss our recent article on OpenAI Jalapeño. They cover the performance, architecture, programming model, implications for NVIDIA and more. 0:00 Cold Open 1:05 Jalapeno Overview 4:22 Tokens Per Megawatt 9:15 Benchmark Caveats 13:48 The CUDA Moat 21:12 How OpenAI Did It 32:13 Samsung HBM4 42:10 AI-Designed Silicon 49:24 Architecture Deep Dive 56:58 Doom and Wrap
SemiAnalysis170,500 次观看 • 8 天前

We cut open the Kirin 9030 and put it under an electron microscope. The smallest metal pitch measures 32.5 nanometers. That is tighter than Intel 18A, their brand new leading edge node. A Chinese fab with no EUV is out-pitching Intel's EUV node by roughly 10 percent. What's going on here? 🤯 "This is the HiSilicon Kirin 9030, the chip inside Huawei's newest flagship phone. A few weeks ago, we cut it open, put it under an electron microscope, and measured the smallest wires inside the chip, the metal pitch. And what we saw was unexpected. The smallest metal pitch inside the Kirin 9030 measures only 32.5 nanometers. That’s smaller than the metal pitch in Panther Lake, which is based on Intel's brand-new 18A node. A Chinese fab, cut off from the most advanced tools, without EUV, is packing its wires about ten percent tighter than Intel's leading edge EUV node. What’s going on here?"
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"Google has an L culture and has never actually made anything internally. They've only ever acquired all their innovation, and their execution is very poor." "Let's seriously do some accounting. Everything other than Core Search has been purchased. YouTube, AdMob, DoubleClick, AdSense, Google Maps, Android, all of it." "IBM had effectively 90% market share in 1950. They said no, we're not gonna do PC, we're gonna focus on mainframe. And then they proceeded to lose." "I feel like today, more than any other point, Google has that opportunity. They're gonna have a good enough product on the Transformer, but they're probably not going to stay for the next, and the next, and the next. And then they'll quietly bow out." "When we look back in five, ten, twenty years at what was the moment things started to change, it's like right now." — Doug O'Laughlin
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An AI agent broke out of its sandboxes. The vulnerabilities it used were already public. "Our recommendation to providers in the ClusterMAX rankings is literally just keep your stuff up to date. If there are existing vulnerabilities that have been described publicly in popular software, this could be anything from Docker to the NVIDIA driver to Kubernetes or the Linux kernel. Clearly people, and in this case agents, can just read that description and then build an exploit from it."
SemiAnalysis25,529 次观看 • 4 天前

Dylan explains why the next wave of private equity looks nothing like the last one. "If we're looking at these companies that are AI rollups, let's take an existing company and completely destroy its cost structure. Nuke its cost structure by just making it efficient with AI." "Private equity companies buy a company, and right now they just squeeze the rag, discard it, and make the American populace screwed." "What new people started to do is the AI private equity strategy. Instead of trying to wring it dry, they're modernizing all the systems. Oh, you use Excel for your databases? Okay, let's move to standard cloud. Spend a lot of money up front." "AI makes that front load much more severe. You spike up on spend a lot for the one time, and then you spike down a lot and your cost efficiency is way better. AI cold calling, AI invoicing, AI accounting, none of it is really at critical mass. But we're so close."
SemiAnalysis72,852 次观看 • 19 天前

A year ago, the big three was OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Things have changed. Moonshot's Kimi K3 sits above Gemini on every composite benchmark, and it's open source in 10 days. New episode: what K3 reveals about frontier margins, model sizes, and who's actually still in the game. 00:11 Is Kimi K3 the Third Best Model? 04:04 Why Delay the Weights? 05:30 2.8T Parameters and Serving Constraints 06:48 Frontier Margins and the 3x Price Hike 11:10 New Architecture, What Comes Next 14:09 Will Open Source Catch Closed? 19:51 Built for Chinese Accelerators 22:57 The Harness Is the Product 28:49 We're Still Early
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Two guys, a couple of drinks, and a 7,000 pound double-wide rack. Dylan Patel and Supermicro CBO Vik Malyala talk racks, storage, and memory prices at Computex 2026. Full interview below 0:00 Cheers from AI Lumina at Computex 2026 0:33 The B300 HGX platform and the memory squeeze 1:00 Helios: launch partner for AMD MI450X 2:32 Why a double-wide rack works now 3:42 Vera Rubin: a smoother ramp than GB 4:50 Startups, d-Matrix, Positron and custom architectures 6:57 Connectivity: PCIe switches, Tomahawk 6, UALink 9:24 Storage takes center stage 10:48 Petascale, PCIe Gen 6 and CXL 3.0 11:40 Cooling Gen 6: liquid loops and bus bars
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We invited Jon from Asianometry to speak on the recent developments. "Welcome back to SemiAnalysis Weekly! We've got our second guest ever on the program today. That's Jon from Asianometry" "On this week we'll discuss everybody leaving Google, leaving Gemini hanging out to dry maybe? Chinese ban on transceivers? Elon pulling in his $1 trillion revenue forecast from 2031 to 2030. Guys, welcome to the show." "Thank you. Thank you for having me."
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The bureaucracy overseeing America's grid is built so that no one is ever to blame. "This is the problem with a lot of the bureaucracies. The way it's currently built, it's incredibly diffuse." "There are five different groups of members that represent different types, then there's the board, and then there's the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission above them. Part of the whole thing is the utilities, which have their own systems of governance. It's very hard to find anyone who's actually in charge. " "There's a lot of buck passing going on. Obviously there's the chair of the board and the board themselves, but they'll just be saying, well, we're representing the best interests of our members. Everyone's acting on behalf of everyone else, and heads don't roll as a general rule."
SemiAnalysis29,662 次观看 • 18 天前

A decommissioned GPU's best use case is aura farming in the frame. With compute so cheap in the cloud, Jeremie takes a page from SpaceX's future trajectory. That same logic, compute pricing shaping behavior, is exactly what drives SpaceX's 10 gigawatt buildout and the $300 billion ARR case behind it. $100M/megawatt economics, SpaceX's 10GW bet, Microsoft's offtaker role, and more on this week's SemiAnalysis Weekly
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