For years, the semiconductor story was told in nanometers. 14nm, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm. Each shrink meant more transistors per square millimeter, more performance per watt, more compute per dollar. The country that controlled the smallest transistors controlled the future. That story is still true — for the part of the system that does the math. But AI systems are no longer merely chips. They are compute, memory, packaging, networking, power, cooling and software functioning as one m

My 16-year-old daughter reacted to the possible return of MySpace like people once reacted to a new iPhone launch. She has no MySpace nostalgia. She never had a Top 8, never broke a profile with bad HTML, never waited for somebody's page song to load over dial-up. Yet she is genuinely excited to "go OG" on it. And the fact that OG is literally Olivia Grace is just too perfect. That tells me this may be bigger than millennials trying to resurrect their adolescence. Younger pe

I had no idea today was TRS-80 Day. I found out the same way we are apparently required to learn about history now: through one of the only genuinely useful things social media still does, which is randomly placing something in front of you that unlocks a 40-year-old memory. The post said that on August 3, 1977, Tandy announced the original TRS-80, one of the first mass-produced personal computers. I saw "TRS-80" and immediately thought: I had one of those. Mine was a TRS-80

I built a retro terminal website the other day. Boot sequence, DOS prompt, CRT themes, the whole thing. Spent a couple hours on it, purely for the joy of it. It lives at rwashburn.neocities.org and it's called "En'Riched Retrovation v3.1" and yes, I'm aware of how ridiculous that is. But here's the thing: I'm not the only one going retro. And this time, it might actually mean something. The Myspace Relaunch Is Real The screenshot making the rounds isn't Facebook rumor mill no