Hardware

Lumilens Raised 700 Million to Bring Optical Networking to the Data Center

Lumilens raised 700 million dollars to bring optical networking to the data center, swapping electrical wiring for light to break the AI bandwidth wall.

Tesla and SpaceX Break Ground on Terafab, a 16.8 Billion Dollar Texas Chip Plant

Tesla and SpaceX are building Terafab, a 16.8bn dollar Texas chip factory to feed their own AI, robotics and space compute. Here is what it means.

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Ramps Up at CoreWeave and Google

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72, the company's next-generation GPU architecture, is now in active production and running at CoreWeave and Google. The system is design

Wistron Opens US Manufacturing Plant for NVIDIA AI Systems in Fort Worth

Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron has opened its first US production facility in Fort Worth, Texas, dedicated to building and testing NVIDIA AI systems for data ce

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Is Shipping, and the Performance Per Watt Numbers Are Striking

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 racks are in production and already running at CoreWeave and Google, with NVIDIA claiming the architecture delivers the lowest token c

Why RAM prices are climbing fast in 2026, and AI is the reason

RAM prices have jumped sixfold in a year as memory makers chase AI demand. Here is why DDR5 costs more in 2026 and what it means for your next build.

A Major Solar Milestone: The Grid Ran on Over 50% Renewables for a Record Stretch

Britain's electricity grid has been running above 50% renewable generation for sustained multi-day periods in 2026, driven by over 30 gigawatts of installed off

Wistron Opens Its First US Factory in Fort Worth to Build NVIDIA AI Systems

Wistron, one of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturers, has opened its first US factory in Fort Worth, Texas, dedicated to building NVIDIA AI sy

What the SK-NVIDIA Memory Deal Means for the Next Generation of AI Chips

The memory sitting alongside AI chips, not the chips themselves, is increasingly the real bottleneck in AI performance, and a closer look at the SK-NVIDIA deal

Vera Rubin Is Ramping Fast: What the Performance Per Watt Numbers Mean for Cloud AI

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin is past the launch hype and into genuine production ramp at CoreWeave, Google, and other major cloud partners, with the company emphasising

Arm laptops go mainstream: what a phone chip in your PC actually changes

Arm laptops are going mainstream in 2026. Here is what a phone-style chip in your PC changes for battery life, speed, app support and price.

NVIDIA Is Building AI Infrastructure Partnerships Across Every Layer of Asia

Zoom out from any single NVIDIA announcement this month and a pattern becomes very clear: the company is embedding itself across Asian AI markets at four distin

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Is in Full Production and Partners Are Racing to Scale

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 is now in production at CoreWeave and Google, with the company claiming it delivers the lowest token cost of any AI system it has ship

NVIDIA Vera Rubin Is Now Genuinely in Production and the Performance Numbers Are Real

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack system is now in live production at CoreWeave and Google, and the headline claim is lowest token cost of any current AI inference

The Fort Worth Manufacturing Plant Tells Us a Lot About Where AI Hardware Is Made Now

Wistron has opened its first US manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, producing NVIDIA AI server systems, and it is part of a broader reshoring trend that i

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2026: Everything You Need to Know Before Tonight

Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event is live today, and the Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 7 are expected to headline alongside a hefty dose of Galaxy AI announcements. Foldabl

Google Is Building a Server Chip It Claims Is Up to 10 Times More Efficient Than Its TPUs

Google is reportedly developing a server chip code-named Frozen v2, built around the Gemini architecture, with internal claims of 6 to 10 times the efficiency o

AMD is putting £2 billion into UK AI supercomputing

AMD posted 57% year-on-year growth in data centre revenue for Q1 2026 and committed £2 billion to AI supercomputing infrastructure in the UK.

Budget phones are about to get a lot more expensive

Analysts expect budget smartphone sales to fall around 22% in 2026 as memory chips, now up to 64% of a lower-tier phone

Samsung's foldables just got real specs, days before Unpacked

Leaked specs and pricing for the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Flip 8 ahead of Samsung

MSI's new handheld beats AMD's best chip, at a very steep price

The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ ships with Intel

Qualcomm bets $15 billion that AI chips don't need Nvidia's memory trick

Qualcomm is targeting over $15 billion in annual data centre chip revenue by 2029, built on a new memory architecture designed to avoid the HBM chips Nvidia and

Samsung Just Launched Its First Ever Credit Card, and It Is All About Locking You Into Galaxy

Samsung has launched its first credit card in the US, offering increased cashback when you buy Samsung products and financing options for Galaxy devices. It is

Nuclear Startup Valar Atomics Is Chasing a Six Billion Dollar Valuation

Nuclear startup Valar Atomics is in talks to raise funding at a six billion dollar valuation, a number that tells you everything about how AI's electricity appe

Google Pixel 11a May Finally Get the Chip It Deserves

Google might be doing something it has never done before: putting its newest flagship chip inside the budget Pixel 11a instead of the usual hand-me-down process

Japan's Physical AI Bet: How NVIDIA Cosmos Is Reshaping Robotics and Manufacturing

Japan's biggest robotics and manufacturing companies are committing to NVIDIA's physical AI stack, including Cosmos, Isaac, and Jetson, in a coordinated move dr

Agility Robotics Just Opened a Facility in Tesla's Backyard

Agility Robotics just opened a new facility in the Bay Area, putting it in direct geographic competition with Tesla's Optimus program and a cluster of well-fund

Hyundai Factory Workers Strike Over Fear of Humanoid Robots

Workers at a Hyundai factory have gone on strike specifically over the company's plans to deploy humanoid robots, in what appears to be one of the first major i

Daniel Ek's Body-Scanning Startup Neko Health Raises 700 Million Dollars in New Funding

Daniel Ek's body-scanning health startup Neko Health has raised 700 million dollars, making it one of Europe's most heavily funded health tech companies. Neko's

Skullcandy's New Crusher 1080 Puts Bose ANC Inside Its Famous Bass Headphones

Skullcandy has dropped the Crusher 1080 ANC, and the headline feature is something nobody saw coming: active noise cancellation developed by Bose. The Crusher's

SK Hynix just pulled off the biggest foreign IPO in US history

SK Hynix IPO raised 26.5 billion dollars, the largest US listing ever by a foreign company, funding the HBM memory that powers Nvidia AI chips today.

Samsung's Flex Titanium Is the Foldable Screen Upgrade Everyone Has Been Waiting For

Samsung has unveiled Flex Titanium, a new foldable display technology that uses titanium in the display structure itself to reduce crease visibility and improve

OnePlus Is Reportedly Pulling Out of the US Market

OnePlus, once the definitive flagship-killer brand for Android enthusiasts, is reportedly exiting the US market as parent company Oppo retreats from Western reg

Apple's Failed Self-Driving Car Left Behind a Surprisingly Powerful AI Chip Legacy

Apple's cancelled self-driving car project was a costly mess, but it turns out the chip designs built for Project Titan have quietly become the foundation of Ap

Lorde Called Ray-Ban Meta Glasses 'Not Sexy' and She Has a Point

Lorde described Ray-Ban Meta glasses as 'not sexy', and while it sounds like a throwaway celebrity opinion, she is articulating something the wearable tech indu

Even Realities Bets Smart Glasses Don't Need a Camera

Most smart glasses come with cameras, and most people find that a bit creepy. Even Realities is launching the G1 with a deliberate camera omission, betting that

The Nopia Synth Was a Years-Long Viral Tease. Now It's Nearly Real.

The Nopia synthesiser has been a viral sensation for years without ever quite being available to buy. Now the team says the gestural, keyboard-free instrument i

FCC Cracks Down on DJI Front Companies That Dodged the Drone Ban

The FCC has moved against companies including Xtra, Skyrover, and SGS Lab, which it alleges were rebranding and reselling DJI drone technology to circumvent the

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Is Coming to London. Here's Why the City Choice Matters.

Samsung has chosen London as the host city for Galaxy Unpacked 2026, following Seoul, Paris, and Brooklyn in previous years. The city choice is never random for

Meta's Always-On Smart Glasses Raise Serious Privacy Questions

Meta is reportedly building smart glasses that record continuously rather than on demand, with an AI layer processing footage in real time. The privacy implicat

Intel's Crescent Island AI chip starts sampling this year, aimed straight at Nvidia

Intel confirmed its new Crescent Island AI data centre chip will begin sampling in the second half of 2026, part of a broader push to challenge Nvidia and AMD b

Samsung's Q2 Earnings Guidance Points to a Chip Recovery That Is Actually Happening

Samsung has dropped its Q2 2026 earnings guidance, and it confirms that the memory chip recovery being driven by AI infrastructure demand is real and continuing

Google's Fitbit Air Is a Screenless, 12-Gram Band With a Week of Battery

Google's Fitbit Air ditches the screen for a 12-gram band with about a week of battery life, betting that most people never looked at their wrist anyway.

Best budget 4K monitors in 2026: the ones actually worth buying

The best budget 4K monitors in 2026, tested and compared. Real prices, real specs, and which panel wins for work, gaming, PS5, and Mac.

Meta just launched its cheapest smart glasses yet, and the price is the point

Meta introduced its most affordable smart glasses to date, a clear push to move the category out of early-adopter territory and onto ordinary faces.

Sony's Austrian Disc Factory Is Being Converted as Physical Media Dies

Sony's disc manufacturing plant in Thalgau, Austria is being converted away from game disc production, a concrete milestone in the long death of physical media.

Digital Realty buys three data centres from Blackstone for $7.8 billion

Digital Realty is acquiring three fully-leased Northern Virginia data centres from Blackstone for $7.8 billion, a bet on sustained AI infrastructure demand.

The FAA Wants to Let Supersonic Jets Fly Over US Cities, With One Catch

The FAA has proposed allowing supersonic aircraft to fly over US cities for the first time since the sonic boom ban of 1973, but only if they're quiet enough to

OpenAI and Broadcom just unveiled Jalapeno, their first custom AI chip

OpenAI's first custom chip, built with Broadcom in nine months, is designed to run ChatGPT more efficiently. Here is what Jalapeno is, what it does, and why it

South Korea is spending $880 billion on chips, AI, and robots over the next decade

South Korea committed 1,350 trillion won to semiconductors, AI data centres, and robotics. Here is what the plan covers, who is backing it, and what it means fo

AMD RX 9060 XT: the $299 GPU that actually has enough VRAM

AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT launched June 5 at $299 with 16GB of VRAM. It outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by 15-20% and makes the RTX 5060 look overpriced.

Samsung Is Betting $648 Billion on AI Chips Over the Next Decade

Samsung Group is committing 1,000 trillion won ($648bn) to AI chip factories, data centres, and displays. Here's what the scale of this bet actually means.

Qualcomm wants to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion to take on Nvidia

Qualcomm is in early talks to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent for $8 to $10 billion. Jim Keller's RISC-V bet could be the most credible challenge to Nvidia

IBM crams 100 billion transistors onto one chip

IBM's NanoStack architecture puts 100 billion transistors on a single chip with 50% more performance and 70% less energy, via vertical stacking.

OpenAI built its own AI chip and called it Jalapeno

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom AI chip. Prototypes by end of 2026, full scale by 2028. Here is why it matters.

RISC-V vs ARM vs x86: the chip architecture war nobody told you about

RISC-V vs ARM vs x86 explained in plain English. We break down who owns each chip architecture, what it costs, and where each one wins in 2026.

Intel's 18A-P node hits a milestone, with Apple and Google reportedly circling

The advanced process enters risk production, and a tie-up with Taiwan's UMC takes aim at TSMC's foundry lead.

Microsoft's 2026 Surface line is its best in years, and its most expensive

OLED screens, new haptics and a two-stage chip rollout. The catch is a price hike that pushes Surface above equivalent Macs.

Nvidia just walked into the PC chip market, and Intel should be worried

The RTX Spark Superchip puts a 20-core CPU and a Blackwell GPU on one piece of silicon. It lands in laptops this autumn.

OpenAI built its own chip to stop paying Nvidia so much

OpenAI revealed Jalapeno, its first custom inference processor built with Broadcom, as it signs giant compute deals and tries to cut the cost of running its mod

China is spending $295 billion on AI infrastructure. Here is what that actually means.

China's National Development and Reform Commission is finalising a five-year, $295 billion plan to build a nationwide AI data centre network. Nvidia and AMD are

The US Government Thinks ASML's Most Advanced Chip Tool Is Inside China

The US government has raised the alarm that one of ASML's most powerful extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, the kind that's essential for manufacturing th

Quantum computers just got dramatically more reliable, and almost nobody noticed

Microsoft reports a 1,000x reliability jump in its Majorana qubits, while error correction across the industry moves from lab trick to engineering reality.

AWS unveils Graviton5 as cloud giants pull silicon in-house

AWS revealed Graviton5, its next-gen Arm data-centre CPU, while Qualcomm paired with Meta. The hyperscaler custom-chip land grab continues.

Intel ships the first high-volume High-NA EUV chips

SambaNova raises 1 billion dollars to take on Nvidia in inference

NAS vs Cloud Storage in 2026: What Changes When You Own the Box

NAS gives you speed and control, cloud gives you convenience. Here is the real 2026 tradeoff and the setup most privacy conscious people land on.

TSMC revenue jumps 34 percent as it raises 2026 capex