An architectural teardown of Apple’s A20 Pro 2nm GAAFET silicon: testing the 32-core Neural Engine, 65.2 GB/s memory bandwidth wall, copper vapor chamber thermals, and iOS Jetsam limits running 3B to 7B LLMs on-device.
Hardware & Local AI
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Silicon architectures, VRAM requirements, GPU benchmarks, Apple Silicon unified memory, and local LLM deployment.
Leaked specifications and canary tests for xAI’s upcoming Grok 4.7 disclose a 2.1T parameter MoE architecture, supplemental pre-training on SpaceX telemetry, Pareto dominance over Claude Fable on CursorBench, and the physical limits of the 200,000-GPU Colossus supercluster.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that ‘AGI has arrived’ with GPT-6 Astra trained on ~100K+ Grace Blackwell NVL72 in Abilene, Texas. Here is why the claim falls apart under ARC-AGI 3 benchmark audits and the 786 MW substation power wall confronting the 400K GPU expansion.
An investigative semiconductor teardown by Dr. Marcus Vance: why package warpage forced Nvidia to cancel the 4-die Rubin Ultra, how screaming chassis fans burn 17% of total rack power in the MGX GB200A air compromise, and the race toward glass core substrates.
For three years, the undisputed gospel of the homelab AI community was brutally simple: buy a used…
The short answer This Pixel 11 Tensor G6 on-device AI review asks a simple question: is Google…
Can Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally? We explain memory, quantization, runtimes, speed limits, pricing and who should buy.
The question keeps returning in geopolitical debates, market briefings, and defense circles: will China invade Taiwan in…