Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Tesla-Samsung $16.5 billion for AI chips

good deal

Tesla-Samsung $16.5 billion supply deal may spur chipmaker's US contract business | Reuters

Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab has signed a $16.5 billion deal to source chips from Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), opens new tab, a move that could bolster the South Korean tech giant's unprofitable contract business but is unlikely to help Tesla sell more EVs or roll out robotaxis more quickly.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said late on Sunday that Samsung's new chip factory in Taylor, Texas would make Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip. This could re-energize Samsung's project, which has faced long delays because the company had trouble retaining and attracting major clients.


CGI web server apps: GoLang, Rust, C

When WWW and HTTP was first created, 30+ years ago,
the way to integrate web server apps with other tools was to "spawn" a new process each time with CGI interface. That was not very efficient, but was universal and simple. 

The alternative was to embed handling on HTTP/TCP sockets directly in the web server.
That is how most of web server apps work now.

But apparently due to Go efficient and compact compiled programs,
CGI can still be efficient, even now, same as was C/C++ a while ago.

Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin | Jake Gold

Jacob2161/cgi-bin @GitHub: GoLang


Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust + CGI | Jake Gold

strangely enough, C is still the fastest option!

the old is good again, in part thanks to CPU HW improvements