Ben Thompson

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · (Preview) Inference in the Agentic Future, xAI Is Two Companies in One, Q&A on Elon’s Lawsuit, Intel, Apple · 15 May 2026 podcast

There is a limit to how much compute you might want for humans. podcast-host

The limiter is how many humans there are and like how much stuff they can come up with. podcast-host

But at least in theory, the limit for computers doing computing and especially once they're doing their own programming and and spinning up their own sorts of things is effectively infinite. podcast-host

The you're going to need to store all this context. podcast-host

And again, there's lots of innovations around here, whether you're on batching or caching or or podcast-host

or like, you know, some prompts have the same sort of context and so you can put those together. podcast-host

Well, there's all sorts of things that are g people are going to figure out and they're gonna innovate on these in lots of ways. podcast-host

They're gonna podcast-host

But podcast-host

as long the the idea of there's a concept called a memory hierarchy. podcast-host

So podcast-host

With traditional computing, like your typical CPU, you have registers, which is like the actual data that's being processed. podcast-host

Then you have like L1 cache, L two cache, maybe L3 cache. podcast-host

This is all storage on the chip itself. podcast-host

One of the reasons Apple's M chips are really fast is they have a lot of cash. podcast-host

And so it's like right there on the chip, all the like a lot of the core foundational like options. podcast-host

operating system stuff. podcast-host

They they've done a lot of inj this is where their integration is really paid off to make sure everything is like super available and executes very, very quickly. podcast-host

But then from there you go out to RAM. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

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