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~/blog/the-ai-boom-is-an-infrastructure-story$
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The AI Boom Is an Infrastructure Story Now
Behind every model release is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar bet on power, silicon, and data centers — and the bet is starting to show up in places nobody expected, including the microcontroller on your desk.
[ai][hardware][industry]
~/blog/ram-shortage-embedded-engineers$
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The 2026 RAM Shortage Isn't a PC Problem — It's an Embedded Problem
DRAM and NAND prices haven't moved like this in over a decade, and the reason has nothing to do with laptops. Here's what the AI memory crunch actually means for anyone shipping hardware.
[hardware][supply-chain][embedded-systems]
~/blog/clean-architecture-on-bare-metal$
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Clean Architecture on Bare Metal: What Survives Contact With Hardware
Most clean-architecture advice assumes you have a heap, an OS, and a test runner. Embedded systems have none of those by default — here's what's actually worth keeping.
[embedded-systems][architecture][firmware]