James Sanders

Minor job update: I'm now "Senior Analyst, Microprocessor Report," meaning I get to spend more of my work day writing alternatingly philosophical and technical articles about microprocessors than I already did. Best job in the world.

It’s nice to feel optimistic again.

between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

Goldman Sachs CEO on AI’s economic impact: ‘There’s very little that we do where we need frontier models’ We spent 2026 being told that generative AI was transforming society. Now we're back to "just wait until the next model!" boostering. Well, it turns ou, few need or want that next model.

AI hardware is moving beyond a one-size-fits-all scaling strategy. As inference takes on a larger share of AI compute, new needs are coming up around cost, energy use, and total cost of ownership. Our analysts cover 3 key shifts happening in the packaging market 👉https://bit.ly/4z11Dli

“Is this anything?” #17: Misunderstanding on the shoulders of giants.

From electrification to Physical AI. What will it take for Europe to maintain its leadership in power semiconductors? Join TechInsights’ expert Cedric Malaquin at the Market Trend Forum ➡️https://bit.ly/4yFncak

dragon, dragon, rock the dragon, dragon ball TEA! 😛

i have gcloud credits to spend, so i decided to spin up a simple alpine instance. after an hour struggling in vain with the gcloud website, i finally thought to ask their AI bot. surely it exists to solve this kind of problem, right? after another hour with the bot, it gave up! it told me […]

Did y’all get the Pfizer or the Moderna for your web server?

Service for the Internet has ended. Thank you for having used it.

Synergy Research Group, now part of TechInsights, forecasts that worldwide revenue across cloud computing, cloud software, and leading consumer digital services will grow more than threefold from 2025 to 2031, exceeding $5 trillion annually by 2031. See our latest blog 👉 bit.ly/4hXOX8W

One of the 18TB drives in my NAS died today. 💸

there’s a “repetitive strain injury” joke in here somewhere, I’m certain

Either demand is high or volume is low - Apple Duo already showing availability by Jan. 2027 in apple.com

It is *extremely strange*, as Jeffrey describes here, that NVIDIA’s review embargo prohibits disclosures about the battery life of the RTX Spark platform in the initial review cycle.

pragmatic, awful truth

cursed artifacts #6

Anthropic warns self-replicating AI warning 'months away' from self-replicating. Researchers say 'AI alarms' could soon infiltrate the Internet in attempt to remain constantly newsworthy

My short piece on Microsoft, Google, and Huawei changing how DRAM and NAND are utilized within their operating systems over the last several months is featured in our TechInsights public blogs (no registration req'd!)🎉 www.techinsights.com/blog/softwar...

Y’all the largest conference for women in computing (of all types and flavors) that was supposed to happen at the end of the month… … just emailed everyone and said it’s being cancelled for lack of funds. Like, I’m at a loss for words. How.

It's one thing for CEOs to have a cult of personality and be thought of as celebrities (still weird), but it's just sad when people project (i.e., slop) their own opinions of what CEOs are like and what they think, and how they speak.

It is true that tech and AI conversation on X is more liquid and faster to curate into your feed than it is on Bluesky. That conversation is also mostly engagement-hacked slop.

oh my god

I wrote a post explaining exactly why the Dreamcast will prompt you for the date/time even with a healthy battery, which has puzzled many of us for years! It's not your battery: the Dreamcast's hidden 30-day clock check dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewto...

One nice thing about working from home is that I own a kotatsu, and working from a kotatsu is very pleasant.

Being a sentient person in 2026 means arguing in public for issues you never thought you would have to articulate out loud: "Read to your children yourself instead of outsourcing it to a robot!" "Don't televise executions!" Things like that.

Join TechInsights experts for an evidence-based look inside Apple’s latest Pro models and see what preliminary teardown evidence reveals about Apple’s 2nm A20 Pro, camera and connectivity systems, component suppliers, and device cost. 📅Oct 14, 2026 Register free today ➡️ bit.ly/4y7uq6t

Every day you send out a handful of posts into the world, and some prosper, but others that you had a soft spot for and might even have felt were more deserving don't. No one ever talks about it.

Short blog post about our new paper on cross-validating quantum network simulators. rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com/2026/10/cros...

I've got too many work and personal projects going on to buy another retro computer, but I want to buy another retro computer.

Microsoft seems to have enabled this pop-up in Office every time I highlight something, and it is *extremely annoying*. How do I turn this off?

This probably shouldn't happen... @hanafuda.report @brandrick.bsky.social

icann began paying out bonuses to whoever made a new tld and thats why we got .zip and now .pdf

Fabio seems like he was written to be a meme.

there's no way to comment constructively on this observation (nice find, corbin)

Yes, that's even better. The tech industry is inventing Brain Age DS

TechInsights has obtained an AWS Trainium2 ASIC, which is currently undergoing analysis in our labs. As captive silicon, Amazon Web Services does not sell this chip on the open market. www.microprocessorreport.com/p/techinsigh...

if you have two options for why an AI agent says "good luck"—an emergent property of statistical language prediction, or a hidden emotional interiority—and only one of those is a function of the program you can point to, then it's an outlandish claim to imply the second is possible

I've got a Windows 11 system powered on today. Between MacOS, Windows, and Linux (Fedora, so DNF), the Windows update process is genuinely rather miserable.