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An accelerator is judged as much by the memory bolted next to it as by the processor itself, because the calculation stalls when data cannot be fed in fast enough. That is why the amount of HBM per accelerator decides both its performance and the share of memory output a single machine consumes.
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Predictions & track record (7) Awaiting grading Nvidia said it had no need for the NAND memory standard, and Google just joined the alliance behind it Score as a hit if at least one of Samsung and SK hynix shows HBF samples and begins customer qualification within 2026, and as a miss if neither does. Awaiting grading Nvidia looks set to halve the HBM going into Rubin Ultra, and it is not because demand cooled If Rubin Ultra is fixed at HBM4 8 high and total 2027 HBM bit shipments still rise, score the supply reading as correct; if they fall together, score the demand reading as correct. Awaiting grading Huawei's AI Chip Shipments Are Said to Double: the Real Bottleneck Is HBM, Not Lithography Check whether Huawei's shipments keep climbing after its HBM stockpile is projected to run dry around end-2025/early 2026, or stall around that point instead. Awaiting grading SemiAnalysis, long tough on AMD, now says 'great chance.' Can it really break the CUDA moat? Check whether AMD actually reaches SemiAnalysis's revised October 2026 target for CI test parity with Nvidia's CUDA on vLLM and SGLang gating tests. Awaiting grading AMD's 'Almost There' on the Samsung HBM4 Deal Checks Out. The 'Sat Through the Full Keynote' Detail Doesn't Whether AMD and Samsung actually sign the definitive HBM4 supply agreement around Helios's end-of-Q3 shipping start will be checked in mid-October 2026. Awaiting grading Foxconn cracks the Dell-Supermicro server duopoly with a $52B SpaceX AI order Score when Hon Hai reports 2026 H2 results or updates guidance: did it raise its outlook citing AI-server orders like this SpaceX deal? Hit The 'Kimi moment': a $1.3B open-weight model that could reprice the whole US AI trade Independent benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis ranked Kimi K3 (full weights released July 27, 2026) #3 on its Intelligence Index (score 57), matching or surpassing GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 -- graded hit. 10 related posts
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