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Field notes on mining hardware, profitability, and the shift toward AI & HPC hosting.

Why Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI Infrastructure
Industry•October 4, 2026•7 min read

Why Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI Infrastructure

Riot's $9.1B AI lease, Core Scientific's AMD partnership, and tightening mining margins show why power is the industry's new prize.

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Business Robotics: 12 Use Cases Across Marketing, Hospitality & Enterprise
Robotics•September 19, 2026•10 min read

Business Robotics: 12 Use Cases Across Marketing, Hospitality & Enterprise

How robots drive engagement, streamline customer service, improve workplace productivity, and reduce exposure to hazardous work.

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Compute Futures: AI Power Becomes a Tradable Asset Class
Markets•August 11, 2026•7 min read

Compute Futures: AI Power Becomes a Tradable Asset Class

CME Group and Silicon Data launch two AI compute futures contracts on October 5 — giving H100 and Blackwell B200 rental prices a public, hedgeable benchmark.

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SK Hynix: 2027 Is the Worst Year of the Memory Shortage — And It Runs to 2030
Markets•July 12, 2026•7 min read

SK Hynix: 2027 Is the Worst Year of the Memory Shortage — And It Runs to 2030

On the day SK Hynix listed on Nasdaq, CEO Kwak Noh-jung warned that 2027 will be the peak of the DRAM and HBM shortage — and the crunch will last until 2030.

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RAMpocalypse 2026: Why DRAM Prices Are Exploding
Markets•June 27, 2026•8 min read

RAMpocalypse 2026: Why DRAM Prices Are Exploding

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron pivoted fab capacity to HBM for AI — and consumer DDR5 tripled, DDR4 doubled, and laptops are up 15–30%. Inside the global memory shortage.

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The GPU Server Market in 2026: Rack-Scale AI, GPUaaS & Liquid Cooling
AI Infrastructure•June 10, 2026•9 min read

The GPU Server Market in 2026: Rack-Scale AI, GPUaaS & Liquid Cooling

Vera Rubin and Blackwell racks, CoreWeave and Runpod GPUaaS, direct liquid cooling, and physical AI — inside the forces reshaping enterprise GPU infrastructure.

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NVIDIA RTX Spark: Arm + Blackwell Lands in Copilot+ PCs
AI Hardware•June 3, 2026•7 min read

NVIDIA RTX Spark: Arm + Blackwell Lands in Copilot+ PCs

A 20-core Arm CPU fused to a Blackwell GPU over NVLink — 128 GB unified memory, 1 petaflop of AI, and an agent-first design built with MediaTek and Microsoft.

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The Top 5 AI GPU Servers of 2026
AI Hardware•May 30, 2026•10 min read

The Top 5 AI GPU Servers of 2026

Specs, throughput, power draw, and operating costs for NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, HGX B200, AMD MI350X, Dell XE9680, and Supermicro SYS-821GE.

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Dell's 30% Surge: AI Servers Eclipse the PC Business
Markets•May 29, 2026•6 min read

Dell's 30% Surge: AI Servers Eclipse the PC Business

AI server revenue of $16.1B overtook Dell's PC unit for the first time, lifting Supermicro and HPE ~14% in the NVIDIA-powered data center boom.

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The Great GPU Server Boom: Inside the AI Hardware Arms Race
AI Infrastructure•May 25, 2026•9 min read

The Great GPU Server Boom: Inside the AI Hardware Arms Race

Vertical integration, silicon photonics, AMD's MI350P, supply shortages, and the rise of RTX-based DIY clusters reshaping enterprise AI.

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World's First BM1373 Solo Bitcoin Miner: Nexus S1
Hardware•May 25, 2026•8 min read

World's First BM1373 Solo Bitcoin Miner: Nexus S1

A desk-sized solo miner running the same BM1373 chip as the Antminer S21 — how it works, how to set it up, and what it costs to run.

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Why Zcash Mining Out-Earns Bitcoin Per Kilowatt
Profitability•May 25, 2026•6 min read

Why Zcash Mining Out-Earns Bitcoin Per Kilowatt

Lower network difficulty, power-efficient ASICs, and favorable reward dynamics make Zcash one of the most profitable coins to mine today.

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From Hashrate to Inference: The Great Miner Pivot to AI
Industry•May 25, 2026•7 min read

From Hashrate to Inference: The Great Miner Pivot to AI

Crypto miners are repurposing power, cooling, and real estate to host AI and HPC data centers — and the economics are reshaping the industry.

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