chips: 16 market variants — variant-aware 3D, data-flow loop, scale visualizations

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The /chips/ visualization is now variant-first: 16 real market products across CPU/GPU/DPU, each with its own physical 3D geometry, data-flow path, and encyclopedia copy. Page-only scope — only chips/index.html changed.

Market variants (16, selectable via pills)

• CPU: EPYC 9654 (Genoa), EPYC 9684X (Genoa-X), EPYC 9754 (Bergamo), Xeon 6980P (Granite Rapids), Apple M4 Max, Ryzen 9 9950X
• GPU: H100 SXM5, H100 NVL, B200, RTX 4090, MI300X
• DPU: BlueField-3, BlueField-2, Intel IPU E2100, Pensando Elba, Marvell OCTEON 10

Physical differences called out in 3D — per-variant dynamic builders: Genoa-X's 12 stacked V-Cache tiers rising above the CCDs, Granite Rapids' EMIB compute/SoC tiles, M4 Max monolithic SoC + unified LPDDR5X, H100 NVL twin cards + 3 NVLink bridges, B200 dual dies + NV-HBI, RTX 4090 GDDR6X ring + triple-fan cooler, MI300X 8-XCD chiplet ring + 4 IODs, E2100 P4 pipeline, Elba's 144-MPU grid, OCTEON 10 inline-AI block.

Data streaming through the chip — toggleable animated packet loop (bounded 150-particle pool) with 4 auto-advancing captioned stages per chip. Flow paths and stage captions are now variant-aware: every variant's particles follow its own silicon and highlights track its real blocks (e.g. GDDR6X on the 4090, XCDs on MI300X, SoC tiles on Granite Rapids). Captions rewrite across ELI5 / 15 / Pro / Expert.

Large-scale vs local — Solo / Node / Rack / Cluster scale visualization with animated PCIe, NVLink/NVSwitch, and InfiniBand/Ethernet links: chips linked into networks for large-scale computing vs local model training.

Variant-aware encyclopedia — part entries, component-diff copy, glance table, model labels, pinned 'what changed' cards, and pulse highlights all follow the selected variant at all four explanation depths.

Provenance — headline specs verified against vendor/press sources (Sep 2026), per-variant source list on-page. Exploded geometry is schematic/estimated (labeled as such) — vendors don't publish package CAD.

Verification — inline script syntax-clean; data-layer and flow-override suites pass (16 variants × 4 stages × 4 depths; every stage's highlighted parts exist in the part index). Teardown disposes geometries/materials and clears raycast/label references on swap.

Review-ready. Not merging without explicit approval.

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated
jcamd	Ready	Preview	Sep 17, 2026 11:56pm UTC

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