Heavy front-end frameworks have their place, but when building high-refresh physics sandboxes or retro arcade games, nothing beats a pure requestAnimationFrame loop and the native AudioContext API.

Zero build pipelines, zero npm dependencies, instant 60fps rendering, and synthesized square waves directly in client memory.

From low-power ARM Allwinner chips in $40 retro handhelds to custom APUs powering PC handhelds, dedicated silicon for low-latency emulation has reached an incredible threshold.

We will be cataloging benchmarks, shader filters (CRT-Royale, Scanline presets), and battery efficiency tests across various chipsets right here in this ledger.

Welcome to the system logs of Silicon Arcade. What started as a clean domain idea has evolved into a dynamic testing ground for web graphics, playable browser mini-games, and computational experiments.