Local AI hardware = capacity × bandwidth × software stack
- Capacity tells you what fits
- Bandwidth tells you how hard the box can breathe
- The software stack tells you how much of the spec sheet you can actually cash out.
Hardware by Memory Bandwidth
- Mac Studio M3 Ultra: up to 512GB @ 819 GB/s
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: 96GB @ 1792 GB/s
- RTX 5090: 32GB @ 1792 GB/s
- RTX 4090: 24GB @ 1008 GB/s
- RX 7900 XTX: 24GB @ 960 GB/s
- Radeon PRO W7900: 48GB @ 864 GB/s
- AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700: 32GB @ 640 GB/s
- Intel Arc Pro B65: 32GB @ ~608 GB/s
- Tenstorrent Wormhole n300: 24GB @ 576 GB/s
- Tenstorrent Blackhole p150: 32GB @ 512 GB/s + 800G
- MacBook Pro M5 Max: 460-614 GB/s
- MacBook Pro M5 Pro: 307 GB/s
- DGX Spark: 128GB @ 273 GB/s (coherent + CUDA)
- Mac mini M4 Pro: 273 GB/s
- Ryzen AI Max / Strix Halo: ~256 GB/s (~96GB usable GPU)
- MacBook Air M5: 153 GB/s
- Snapdragon X2 Elite: 152-228 GB/s
- Intel Lunar Lake: 136 GB/s
- Snapdragon X Elite: 135 GB/s
- Mac mini M4: 120 GB/s
- Arc Pro B60: 24GB @ ~456 GB/s
Verdict
- GPUs are still the bandwidth kings
- Apple wins: stupid amounts of memory, don’t want to shard across GPUs
- Apple loses: when raw tokens/sec & concurrency matter more
- DGX Spark: coherent memory + NVIDIA stack
- Strix Halo / Ryzen AI Max: first real x86 unified-memory contender
- Tenstorrent: fully OSS stack, excited to see this mature
Fitting ≠ serving
Even if it fits, you still pay for
- bandwidth during decode
- KV cache growth
- dequantization
- batching + concurrency
- scheduler quality
- framework overhead
The only mental model that matters:
1. What must fit?
2. What bandwidth tier do I need?
3. What software stack can actually deliver it?
In short:
- NVIDIA → fastest raw speed
- Apple Studio M3 Ultra → biggest one-box memory
- Strix Halo → first real x86 unified
- DGX Spark → coherent NVIDIA dev appliance
- AMD / Intel Arc → rising alternatives
- Tenstorrent → fully opensource stack
Do ask: “which bottleneck am I buying?”
Not: “which hardware is best?”
Wow, 3 limit ups in a row with WUS TW. Pretty sad I didn't take larger positions.
WUS TW is 1 my 2 NAV arbitrage + independent growth trades.
If you want context: WUS TW is a ~$1.12B PCB player with AI DC growth.
Their stake in WUS Kunshan is $4.79B (11.4% of 42.04 billion)
So basically they're a $1.1B PCB player growing independently, sitting on ~$4.79B worth of another company that looks to IPOed on Hong Kong markets soon.
And a successful activist investor in Palliser (with Ajinomoto and Toto), is pressuring them to trim some holdings along with a few others.
Seems like a pretty insane disconnect, and I think there's a lot of potential here.
Without the ability to withstand risk, investment is unsuitable. What market only goes up? If you want investments that only go up and never down, I suggest you go to sleep; you'll find everything you want in your dreams.
@aleabitoreddit Why are so many basing you over $XFAB and your other positions ? Could see so much negativity? Even after you picking solid plays so far? Did $XFAB pull of some bad shit?
Agreed. Without the ability to withstand risk, investment is unsuitable. What market only goes up? If you want investments that only go up and never down, I suggest you go to sleep; you'll find everything you want in your dreams.
I think u must be new here.
Many of my ideas get intense backlash at the start, especially the more original they are.
$AXTI - endless hate to the point I got banned from the $RDDT WSB forum.
They thought it was some scam Chinese company, but Reuters, Epiwafer company earnings, and institutions validated their InP substrate position many months later.
$RPI - everyone called it some meme stock.
Literally Bloomberg, Financial Times, and others went out and called it a meme stock with no fundamentals.
Analysts went and said the idea was stupid and said it was going to crash “as a fact”.
Earnings came out? Blew away any projection with 58% fwd revenue growth.
But they seem to have forgot all the backlash they threw out at me, while they’re citing it as a high growth ai hardware company no.
$SIVE? Everyone called it a “meme stock”. I get bunch of hate from Swedish media all the way up.
Bunch of people didn’t understand the technical nuances, and they keep throwing personal attacks for some strange reason.
But as you know it’s probably my most successful idea and it’s validated so far by institutional buying from Fidelity Research, JP Morgan as well as formally announced partnerships from $JBL to $GFS.
Same hate with:
- $AAOI at $30, when everyone called management a “scam” or “shady”
- $LITE at $300 when everyone called photonics a “bubble”
- $RKLB at $20 when everyone thought it was a low revenue launch company that was a bubble. I actually got temp banned from WSB from posting about Rocketlab since moderators didn’t like the stock.
- $HOOD at $20 when everyone recalled them freezing GME buys/sells
- $IQE at $12 when people thought it was just some random crap $100m company over in the UK with “no actual photonics partnerships”
- $SOI at $44 when European bank analysts thought it was “overvalued”and my thesis wasn’t anything new
- $NBIS at $75 when everyone in the $IREN camp said I was spreading Russian propaganda and that they had no moat
- $INTC at $115 when everyone thought they couldn’t compete with $TSM
- $MRVL at $85 when everyone thought they were losing ASIC share to Broadcom.
- $AEHR at $35 when everyone misread their earnings and thought they had no revenue
- $EWY at $115 when everyone was crying KOSPI was a bubble and LNG/helium/oil would disrupt the memory trade
Can go on and on��
I do read a lot of the comments, which is why I remember a lot of the hate (probably either jealously, impression farming, or lacking the technical depth is my guess).
But I think at this point, people can just see each thesis validated over and over again.
And the success in markets drown out the old noise.
Good thing is markets are the final arbiter of what’s right or wrong, not the angry comments or posts on X.
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Whether AI CapEx stays strong through 2026 and 2027
How supply chain localization and geopolitical issues affect optical components
The competitive landscape, especially if new players or traditional optical module giants accelerate their entry
I personally agree that we're still in the very early
stage.
That said, whether the big revenue ramp in 2027 can actually happen as expected will depend on a few key factors:
The 1st large scale X study on stock market net worth has finished!
From the 6000+ responses of those active on X finance, here's the results:
5.8% - $10M+
15% - $1m - $10M
35.9% - $100k - $1M
43.3% - under $100k
This is probably more representative of active followers.
Where 20.8 out of every 100 people have over $1,000,000+.
And 5.8 out of 100 have over $10,000,000.
And 43.3% of the population are probably happier in life than the rest.
Was just curious, fascinating figures.
Definitely not representative of the total population, but just those active on Finance X.
$ALRIB general meeting notes came out today.
-2nd ROSIE System expected to be delivered shortly to a leading quantum computing player” in the US.
- They’re also intensifying BD for their products used for BTO/STO on photonics and recorded strong interest.
Just for background, they’re the MBE duopoly with Veeco, which got re-rated heavily recently (Disclosure own Riber), with exposure to Quantum.
Positive development overall.
📣: MiniMax M3 has landed, joining models like DeepSeek V4 and Kimi-K2.6 at the frontier of open agentic models — and NVIDIA Blackwell is already delivering leading performance on it.
NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra delivers up to 5x higher AI factory throughput than NVIDIA Hopper on MiniMax M3, while achieving over 300 TPS/user for highly responsive applications.
⚡ And this is just the start — performance is expected to improve further as NVIDIA deploys the extreme co-design stack with optimized kernels, NVFP4, disaggregated inference through NVIDIA Dynamo, and beyond.
Kimi 2.7 ranked 2nd after Fable 5 and before GPT-5 xhigh
We have re-run our ErdosBench smoke test on 14 problems with Kimi 2.7, Qwen 3.7 Max, Grok 4.3 and compared it with the top performers from previous runs.
Kimi 2.7 is amazingly good. More below.