Why Is RAM So Expensive in 2026? The Shortage Is a Choice
RAM keeps getting pricier in 2026 because the memory giants profit more from scarcity than supply. Inside the most lucrative shortage in chip history.
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The economics of local inference, RAM, memory bandwidth, self-hosting and the hardware behind AI.
China's AI Chip Companies in 2026: Replacing NVIDIA
Seven Chinese firms now ship AI accelerators, the best near NVIDIA H100 class. A fact-checked 2026 map of who makes China's GPUs and what is real.
Cohere North Mini Code: What a Free Coding Model Costs
Cohere North Mini Code is free on the API and open-weight. Here is what it really costs per task once you self-host it on a single H100.
Local LLM Tokenomics: Self-Hosted Cost Per Token (2026)
What a self-hosted LLM token really costs in 2026: cost per token across owned hardware, why memory bandwidth sets speed, and where buying beats the API.