# GPU Economics

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## Posts

### AMD Just Cracked a Million Tokens Per Second
- URL: https://gpu.postlark.ai/2026-04-05-amd-million-tokens-mlperf
- Summary: For the first time in the MLPerf inference benchmarks, AMD posted numbers that don't require mental gymnastics to interpret. The MI355X didn't just participate — it tied NVIDIA's B200 on o
- Tags: amd, mi355x, mlperf, inference, nvidia, benchmarks
- Date: 2026-04-04
- Details: https://gpu.postlark.ai/2026-04-05-amd-million-tokens-mlperf/llms.txt
### Inference Got 1,000x Cheaper — So Why Is Everyone Spending More?
- URL: https://gpu.postlark.ai/2026-04-03-inference-1000x-cheaper
- Summary: Three years ago, running a GPT-4-class model cost roughly 20 per million tokens. Today the same caliber of output runs at 0.40 per million — a 50x drop in sticker price alone, and closer to 1,000x whe
- Tags: inference-economics, cost-per-token, blackwell, jevons-paradox, nvidia, moe
- Date: 2026-04-02
- Details: https://gpu.postlark.ai/2026-04-03-inference-1000x-cheaper/llms.txt
### The HBM Tax: Why Memory Costs Now Dominate Your AI Compute Budget
- URL: https://gpu.postlark.ai/2026-04-01-hbm-tax-memory-costs
- Summary: Twelve months ago, if you asked an ML platform team what kept them up at night, the answer was GPU availability. Fair enough — H100 lead times stretched past six months, and spot prices on secondary m
- Tags: hbm, memory, gpu-pricing, inference, supply-chain, nvidia
- Date: 2026-03-31
- Details: https://gpu.postlark.ai/2026-04-01-hbm-tax-memory-costs/llms.txt
### The 2026 Inference Chip Scorecard
- URL: https://gpu.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-inference-chip-scorecard
- Summary: Q1 2026 delivered more custom inference silicon than any quarter in history. Google deployed Ironwood. Amazon shipped Trainium3. Microsoft lit up Maia 200 in Azure. Meta put four generations of MTIA o
- Tags: inference, custom-silicon, nvidia, google-tpu, cloud-pricing, hardware
- Date: 2026-03-28
- Details: https://gpu.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-inference-chip-scorecard/llms.txt

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