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The glossary.

Short explanations of the ideas underneath modern computing. Written for undergraduates who want to know what's actually happening on the silicon.

/ ENTRY 01
What's inside a GPU?
Streaming multiprocessors, CUDA cores, tensor cores.
/ ENTRY 02
What does "3nm" actually mean?
Why process node numbers are marketing.
/ ENTRY 03
Transistor to CPU — the stack
From one MOSFET to billions on a chip.
/ ENTRY 04
FPGA vs ASIC vs GPU
Three ways to run the same math.
/ ENTRY 05
Why power is the real bottleneck
Dennard scaling died. What replaced it.
/ ENTRY 06
Memory hierarchy: L1 to HBM
Speed vs capacity, always.
expanding
More entries every week
Cache coherence, branch prediction, SIMD, tensor cores in detail, and more. Suggestions welcome at hello@circuitcopilot.com.