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engineers coaxed those few devices out of a toolset built for chips, and each one takes years of process work to get up and running. Atomic Machines wants to go after a whole new swath of sci-fi products now that they've made it easier: gears the size of a grain of sand, robots that work inside the body, cooling built into AI chips, even a device that runs instant blood tests — Holden argues that her dream was possible, but needed a manufacturing technology that didn't exist yet.

— Packy McCormick
3w ago

Apple is expected to announce several products at its September event next week—including a folding phone—but the iPhone 18 might not be among them. It would be a first for the company.

1mo ago

Three years ago we were still in the ChatGPT era of AI, and I was very excited about the possibility of local inference. Then came the reasoning era, blowing up KV cache (which increases the need for more memory) and emphasizing the importance of decode (to generate that many more tokens). Now we're in the agentic era, where CPU performance is incredibly important. To that end, the ideal setup for a local agent is strong local CPU performance and calling out to the cloud for inference.

5mo ago

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