Forty-Two Years of Inference Silicon

Build an English interactive research page 'Forty-Two Years of Inference Silicon'. Slice the 1985–2026 custom-compute industry into six time windows and reconstruct the evidence observable at each moment: three generations of challengers entering, two shakeouts, and exits that come through acquisition rather than bankruptcy. The core chapter compares the 1995–2000 optical-networking boom with the 2023–2026 inference-silicon boom, arguing that constraints have moved from fabs to HBM, advanced packaging, and the power grid. Magazine-grade English long-form layout, timeline navigation, every chart traceable to a dated primary source, closing with two scenarios, three bold hypotheses, and eight signposts, plus a clear not-investment-advice disclaimer. Single self-contained HTML file that works offline.

Build an English interactive research page 'Forty-Two Years of Inference Silicon'. Slice the 1985–2026 custom-compute industry into six time windows and reconstruct the evidence observable at each moment: three generations of challengers entering, two shakeouts, and exits that come through acquisition rather than bankruptcy. The core chapter compares the 1995–2000 optical-networking boom with the 2023–2026 inference-silicon boom, arguing that constraints have moved from fabs to HBM, advanced packaging, and the power grid. Magazine-grade English long-form layout, timeline navigation, every chart traceable to a dated primary source, closing with two scenarios, three bold hypotheses, and eight signposts, plus a clear not-investment-advice disclaimer. Single self-contained HTML file that works offline.