Inside Panther Lake. Inside an agent’s memory.

2 stories · 2 minute read

01 / CHIPS / TEARDOWN

Panther Lake separates power wiring from signals

SemiAnalysis’s Panther Lake teardown shows Intel 18A moving power wiring behind transistors, freeing frontside space for signals. It finds compute-logic density similar to TSMC N3E, not a peak-density lead over newer nodes; the high-end GPU still uses TSMC.

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02 / CODING AGENTS / OPEN SOURCE

Keep selected records instead of rewriting the past

Conceptual tool-history selection: keep a full pair, keep a call with a shortened result, or remove the pair. User and assistant text stays unchanged, but useful evidence can still be discarded. — Conceptual illustration of the repository’s decision rules. The selection step can lose information even when retained text is never rewritten.

Tamara Tran’s fast-jev-compaction plugin uses Jev to keep, truncate, or drop tool records while preserving user and assistant text. Its README cautions that a keep probability does not prove deletion is safe; errors can trigger Claude Code’s built-in summary.

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