Chip supply chain: 70 borders to run local AI
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
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007skaty Ordinary computer chips share a single memory pool to boost processing power.

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007skaty Global Chip Supply Chain

This chip crossed seventy borders (seventy borders!) To run your local AI (local AI!)

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007skaty The global chip supply chain

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Graphics cards rule AI because they handle thousands of calculations at once.

007skaty Graphics cards rule AI because they handle thousands of calculations at once.

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A single silicon chip crosses over seventy borders before powering your local AI laptop.

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My Tiny Thinker
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007skaty Build your offline computer to learn how private AI runs without using the internet.

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Fun Fact

Rise of NPUs: This specialized silicon chip inside your machine runs private AI locally, performing trillions of tasks per second while using a fraction of your battery's power!

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Glossary
silicon (noun)
A chemical element used widely as a semiconductor in the manufacture of microchips and electronic circuits. Apple introduced its custom M1 silicon in 2020, enabling personal computers to process neural networks locally.
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Gossip

Which hardware upgrade would you buy first?

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Quiz

Which company revolutionized consumer local AI in 2020 by introducing unified memory in its M-series chips?

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Thousands of cores, Solving all at once, Local logic flows!

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007skaty The rise of the NPU

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Unified memory breakthroughs

007skaty Unified memory architectures allow computers to share RAM dynamically between the processor and graphics card, making local AI run much faster.

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Why graphics cards rule AI

007skaty Graphics processing units, or GPUs, excel at AI because they can perform millions of mathematical calculations simultaneously instead of one by one.

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Fun Fact

GPU power: A single modern consumer graphics card contains more raw computing power than all the supercomputers in the world combined did in the mid-1990s.

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Quiz

Which Taiwanese company manufactures the vast majority of the world's advanced AI microchips?

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007skaty Graphics Cards for AI

With thousands of cores working side by side, We multiply matrices to make the model glide

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007skaty Unified memory breakthroughs

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007skaty Silicon Processors

Refined from sand, this silicon code Runs private thoughts in offline mode.

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