Archive - zach's tech blog

Crossbar’s new security chip isn’t actually secure.

Designing tamper-proof chips is hard.

Mar 16 • zach

Taalas is what Etched should have been.

I’m generating 17,000 tokens per second, and they’re all wrong!

Mar 9 • zach

February 2026

Why is OpenAI partnering with Cerebras?

TSMC's manufacturing capacity rules everything around me.

Feb 2 • zach

January 2026

Why did AMD’s random number generator start returning 0x0000?

And why cryptographic randomness matters.

Jan 5 • zach

December 2025

Why did Nvidia acqui-hire Groq?

And why not SambaNova, Cerebras, or d-Matrix?

Dec 26, 2025 • zach

The 2025 Zach's Tech Blog Holiday Roundup

We made it through another year!

Dec 24, 2025 • zach

Why did Irreducible fail?

The ZKP chip market and the AI chip market aren’t the same.

Dec 1, 2025 • zach

November 2025

Why did Cadence acquire ChipStack?

And what does it mean for other AI EDA startups?

Nov 11, 2025 • zach

So, I have to talk about Extropic.

It’s probabilistically nothing, right?

Nov 4, 2025 • zach

October 2025

Making Unconventional Computing Practical

Lessons learned from building weird chips for years.

Oct 22, 2025 • zach

September 2025

RL isn’t the silver bullet for AI-powered chip design

But new EDA tools could change that…

Sep 25, 2025 • zach

August 2025

How did AMD’s secure enclave get hacked?

Trusting TEEs is harder than you’d think.

Aug 18, 2025 • zach

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