Posts tagged: hardware
Infinity Fabric and Cache Coherence — How AMD and Apple Build Unified Memory
Silicon-level deep dive into Infinity Fabric, MOESI/MESI/MESIF cache coherence protocols, Apple UltraFusion, and how unified memory actually works at the transistor level.
Programming the NPU — ONNX Runtime, CoreML, DirectML, and Deploying to Apple ANE and XDNA 2
How to actually program NPUs — the software stacks, runtime compilers, quantization pipelines, and practical gotchas for Apple ANE, AMD XDNA 2, Qualcomm Hexagon, and Intel AI Boost.
Toilet Entropy Reset — XDG Conventions for Physical Home State
How cleaning your home directory led to an XDG-style specification for toilet hygiene — and why every robot should consume a canonical state schema.
Hardware Bottlenecks — Why Your Wi-Fi Caps Your Speed, Not Your Plan
Why upgrading to 10Gbps won't make your laptop any faster and what actually limits your throughput.
Local vs. Cloud Inference: Keeping Your Laptop Cool and Quiet Under Load
How to diagnose thermal profiles, understand the difference between local vs. cloud AI inference on hardware, and configure Linux power profiles to reduce laptop fan noise during heavy tasks.