The visual knowledge system

Metachips
Encyclopedia

Every topic is a mini-book: evolution, architecture, annotated visuals, system context, economics, decisions, outlook and primary sources.

01MTIA
Custom silicon · Meta

MTIA

A visual systems guide to the evolution, architecture, deployment and strategic economics of Meta’s Training and Inference Accelerator.

Visual chapterInteractive diagramsDecision framework
02Google TPU
Custom silicon · Google

Google TPU

From the first inference TPU to pod-scale training systems and Trillium, explained as one continuous silicon-to-software architecture.

Visual chapterInteractive diagramsDecision framework
03NVIDIA Blackwell
GPU platform · NVIDIA

NVIDIA Blackwell

A visual guide to dual-die GPUs, Transformer Engine, NVLink, HBM and the NVL72 rack-scale system.

Visual chapterInteractive diagramsDecision framework
04High Bandwidth Memory
Memory · Packaging

High Bandwidth Memory

A visual guide to stacked DRAM, TSVs, interposers, bandwidth evolution, capacity economics and HBM4.

Visual chapterInteractive diagramsDecision framework
05NVLink & NVSwitch
Interconnect · Scale-up

NVLink & NVSwitch

How NVIDIA connects GPUs into high-bandwidth domains, from point-to-point links to NVL72 and beyond.

Visual chapterInteractive diagramsDecision framework
06Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling
Thermal infrastructure

Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling

Cold plates, CDUs, facility water, thermal resistance, redundancy and the economics of dense AI racks.

Visual chapterInteractive diagramsDecision framework
07800VDC Power Architecture
Power infrastructure

800VDC Power Architecture

Why higher-voltage DC is being considered for dense AI racks, with current, conversion, safety and adoption tradeoffs.

Visual chapterInteractive diagramsDecision framework
08The AI Factory
Full-stack systems

The AI Factory

A visual journey from electricity and cooling to networks, accelerators, runtimes, useful tokens and economics.

Visual chapterInteractive diagramsDecision framework
Build roadmap

From eight flagship chapters to a connected infrastructure graph.

This release establishes the article system and visual component library. The remaining research archive can now be converted topic-by-topic without returning to generic cards.

Phase 1 · Foundation

Eight flagship visual chapters and reusable diagrams.

Phase 2 · Expansion

Hyperscaler, silicon, networking, power and cooling families.

Phase 3 · Knowledge graph

Entity relationships, guided learning and semantic discovery.