ABOUT THE SILICON INDEX

what: a price index for local-AI hardware: workstations, Macs, mini PCs, GPUs and memory, with the largest local model each one can run
prices: official maker list prices only — the maker's own store page (or the maker's exclusive US seller, labelled as such), read live or from an archived snapshot of that same page
history: older prices come from Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) snapshots of maker pages; every number stores its source URL and fetch date
honesty: no invented prices, specs or speeds; a gap is shown as a gap; products with no price history are left out until they have one
not_tracked: street, reseller and marketplace prices; the Peripherals page is a list of add-ons, not price-tracked
can_run: fit is computed from published model file sizes; the rule is on the methodology page
money: some store links are affiliate links (see the footer); a commission never changes a price, an order or a ranking
contact: contact address coming soon