Chapter 1
Breaking free from the cloud
Chapter 2
The silicon inside your machine
Chapter 3
The open source brain trust
Chapter 4
Living with a local assistant
YOUR GOAL
Master of Your private home AI
Ch 2 · The silicon inside your machine
007skaty Neural Processing Units
A grid of tiny circuits multiplies the math all day, To run your local chatbot on a systolic array.
007skaty Global Semiconductor Supply Chain
Dutch light prints, Taiwan silicon, your AI thinks!

007skaty Unified memory breakthroughs eliminate system lag by allowing different processors to instantly access the exact same pool.
Quiz
While many tech companies design the advanced silicon chips needed to run private AI models locally, the global chip supply chain relies heavily on a single manufacturing foundry to fabricate almost all of these cutting-edge processors. Which company is this?
007skaty Unified Memory Breakthroughs
Zero-copy, zero-copy, CPU and GPU share the exact same space.

007skaty The silicon inside your machine runs private AI on gaming hardware because these graphics cards multitask like nothing
007skaty Global Chip Supply Chain
Seventy borders crossed / Twenty-five thousand miles / To run your machine
007skaty Ordinary computer chips share a single memory pool to boost processing power.

007skaty The rise of the NPU, a quiet third brain built inside our devices purely to run local artificial

007skaty Graphics cards rule AI because they handle thousands of calculations at once.
007skaty Neural Processing Unit
The silicon handles the AI math (oh yeah!) / Keeping it local on a low-power path (so quick!)
007skaty Global Chip Supply Chain
This chip crossed seventy borders (seventy borders!) To run your local AI (local AI!)


