Running AI models with 27 billion parameters at home usually runs into the same wall: the price of a GPU with plenty of VRAM. But there is a shortcut straight from data centers: the NVIDIA Tesla V100 with 32 GB, retired from cloud fleets in large numbers and sold used for a fraction of its original price — … Read more
Intel invented the memory market, then abandoned it; invented the microprocessor almost by accident; put “Intel Inside” in offices around the world; and then lost, in succession, mobile phones, Apple, and the manufacturing leadership that defined it. Few companies explain so much of computing history. This is its journey … Read more
In 1993, three engineers met at a Denny’s restaurant in California to found a graphics chip company in a market that already had dozens of competitors. Thirty years later, that company would become, at several points, the most valuable on the planet. This is the history of NVIDIA: from the flops that almost killed it … Read more
No technology company has died and been reborn as many times as AMD. Founded in 1969 to live in Intel’s shadow, it spent five decades alternating strokes of genius (Athlon, x86-64, Zen) with trips to the edge of the abyss — until an engineer named Lisa Su turned a US$ 2 stock into the largest … Read more
Before there was a “Silicon Valley,” there was a wooden garage in Palo Alto. There, in 1939, two recent Stanford engineering graduates founded the company that would define the model for every startup that followed: Hewlett-Packard. This is the history of HP — from garage to giant, from calculators that retired the slide rule … Read more
In 1984, while IBM and Apple fought for headlines, a 19-year-old freshman studying medicine was assembling PCs in his University of Texas dorm room. He discovered something the giants took decades to understand: selling directly to customers, without inventory or middlemen, changes everything. This is the history of Dell … Read more
