Hardware

Hardware: Every Part of a Computer, Explained and Sourced

The chips, memory, processors, graphics cards, boards, standards and connectors that make up a computer — each covered the same way: simple, then deeper, then expert, every fact linked to where it came from.

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What moved here. AI Chips and Memory used to live under AI Atlas. They cover computer hardware rather than AI concepts or tools, so both moved here in September 2026 — the old links still work and send you to the new address.

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AI Chips

NVIDIA and every major AI chip maker: how the chips are made and where, official prices, and what the filings reveal.
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Memory: DRAM, NAND and HBM

Samsung, SK hynix and the rest, plus the module brands that build their chips into what you can buy.
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Planned next

Each card below is an honest roadmap page: what the section will cover, and why it is not built yet. Nothing on them is a specification, a price or a claim about a real product.

Motherboards

What a motherboard actually does, form factor by form factor and brand by brand, once the socket and chipset facts that decide compatibility are covered in CPUs.
Coming soon · Section C

CPUs

Every company that makes the processor at the centre of a computer, the sockets and chipsets that connect it to everything else, and the full product families each has shipped.
Coming soon · Section D

Graphics Cards

The card that renders what is on screen and, for a growing share of buyers, the card that runs AI models locally — NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, side by side.
Coming soon · Section E

Standards and Cables

The connectors, ports and protocols that decide whether two parts of a computer can talk to each other at all — USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, PCIe, M.2 and the rest, explained without the marketing.
Coming soon · Section H

The Compatibility Engine

The cross-section engine this whole codex is being built towards: will this part work with that one, and why — not just a yes or no, but the reasoning a beginner can actually learn from.
Coming soon · Section J

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