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The Zach’s Tech Blog Holiday Roundup

Novel cryptography needs novel hardware.

Is Google’s new quantum chip actually useful?

Most AI chips aren’t cost-effective.

YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

Approximate Computing for Secure AI Chips

The Megafund Problem

Why are so many startups developing PCB design tools?

Why are so many startups developing PCB design tools?

Why is Cerebras trying to go public right now?

You Probably Shouldn’t Drop out of College

Why are so many startups developing chip design tools?

Why are so many startups developing chip design tools?

The most secure chip in the world just got hacked.

The Basics of Side Channel Analysis

Why do so many startups sell to other startups?

What makes a city's "tech scene" good?

Boltzmann Sampling on Coupled Oscillator Architectures

The Missing Silicon Venture Studio

Chiplets: the future of semiconductor IP

How to Privately Query Cloud AI Models

Why doesn’t anybody understand what Palantir does?

Solving the Randomness Bottleneck in Stochastic Computing

Stop trying to make Etched happen.

My Favorite Cocktails in Los Angeles

OpenAI’s Secure Infrastructure Isn’t Secure Enough

Implementing Hopfield Networks on Coupled-Oscillator Accelerators

Solving Optimization Problems with Asynchronous Oscillators on FPGAs

The Future of Analog Circuit Design is Pseudo-Digital

Update: Post-Quantum Cryptography is definitely not broken.

How to build a commercial open source semiconductor company.

No, post-quantum cryptography didn’t just get broken.

Why Etched (probably) won't beat Nvidia

How do Nvidia Blackwell GPUs train AI models with 4-bit math?

What’s the difference between Extropic, Normal Computing, and D-Wave?

Why hasn't there been a big winner in edge AI chips?

Why is Everybody Talking about Groq?

How to Fork Algorand's Pure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain