Alan's PKB

this is an experiment in publishing research notes from my personal knowledge base as a digital garden, in the spirit of Glenn Lockwood’s garden.

who am i?

i’m interested in AI hardware, inference optimization, GPU architecture, and semiconductor economics. i build tools to help me think — including pkb, an LLM-powered knowledge base that generates these notes.

why does this exist?

i maintain detailed notes to help me understand complicated systems. publishing them here forces me to write clearly and might help someone else spend less time figuring things out than it took me.

research notes

hardware architecture

• Breaking Down Blackwell — the definitive Peak FLOPS-style breakdown
• Blackwell Architecture — reference card and specs
• Blackwell Supply Chain
• TSMC N2 Economics
• AI Hardware Landscape
• Roune: AI Chip Design — key ideas from the best document on chip design

inference optimization

• Inference Optimization Stack
• InferBench
• SpectralQuant KV Cache
• SpectralQuant Implementation
• TrtLLMGen MoE Kernels

compute & systems

• Thunder Kittens CUDA
• Robotics Edge Accelerators
• Apple Intelligence Infrastructure

---

browse by tag, use search, or explore the graph view to see how notes interconnect.