WireUnWired Research / Field notes for the future
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Independent deep-tech analysis on AI infrastructure, semiconductor design, and applied engineering. We connect the news to the mechanisms, trade-offs, and economics that actually matter.
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Our longer reads look beneath the launch announcements and hot takes to find the incentives, engineering constraints, and second-order effects.
The Software Moat Is Cracking
AI is lowering the cost of recreating sophisticated software. The deeper question is what becomes hard to replace when building the software itself gets cheaper.
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Ideas across the stack.
A selection of research spanning chips, connected hardware, and the infrastructure needed to deploy AI responsibly.
AI for chip design
RISC-V Verification 2026: AI Cuts the Toil, Not the Risk
AI can speed up parts of verification, but it does not eliminate the need for rigorous sign-off and engineering judgement.
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Connected hardware
The $5 Microchip That Democratized the Internet of Things
How a low-cost microcontroller with integrated wireless connectivity lowered the barrier to building connected devices.
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AI infrastructure
India Adopted AI First. Now Build What Watches It.
Why AI adoption also creates demand for observability, monitoring, and tools that help teams understand how systems behave.
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02 / SEMICONDUCTORSExplore chip economics ↗
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