Stories tagged hardware & chips.
DigiTimes (headlines)
Qualcomm used the second day of its Snapdragon Summit 2026 to underline a broader shift for Snapdragon-powered PCs, announcing Linux support for the Snapdragon X2 Series while highlighting Googlebook laptops powered by the Snapdragon X Elite. The moves signal growing momentum for Qualcomm's PC…
DigiTimes (headlines)
LG Display has scrapped the planned sale of its automotive LCD module business in Nanjing, China, to Top Run Total Solution after the companies failed to reach a final agreement on transaction terms, derailing a plan to shift the operation from in-house production to outsourcing.
DigiTimes (headlines)
TSMC is reportedly planning another wafer foundry price increase, with supply chain sources saying its order visibility now extends to 2030. According to the sources, the company plans to adjust wafer prices from January 2027 across different processes, with hikes of about 3-6% as tight capacity…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Skoda CEO Klaus Zellmer, long seen as one of Volkswagen Group's top-performing brand executives, will leave the company and become president and CEO of Swedish luxury carmaker Volvo Cars no later than October 1, 2027. The surprise move has jolted the global auto industry and adds pressure to…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Eternal Materials reported unaudited earnings before taxes (EBT) of NT$269 million (approx. US$8.47 million) in August 2026, up 28.05% from August 2025, with pre-tax earnings per share (EPS) of NT$0.23. Cumulative EBT for January through August totaled NT$2.3 billion, up 37.31% from a year earlier…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Qualcomm used its keynote on the second day of Snapdragon Summit 2026 to argue that earphones, glasses, and other wearables will shape the next phase of AI computing. For global consumers and device makers, the shift could redefine how people access assistants, services, and cloud-connected tools…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Anthropic will open its Singapore office in October, making it the company's fifth office in the Asia-Pacific region after Tokyo, Bengaluru, Seoul, and Sydney. The move underscores the AI company's push into Singapore as demand for Claude surges across startups, large enterprises, and government…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Taiwan-listed Yusin Holding Corp. said on September 23 that its Chinese subsidiary Fuzhou Assured Brake Systems is reducing its reliance on BYD and shifting its China original-equipment (OE) brake pad business toward joint-venture automakers including Volkswagen, Nissan and Honda. The subsidiary is…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Anthropic has announced a third-party on-site evaluation program, bringing in staff from Faculty, the AI company owned by Accenture, to test model safety measures with near-employee access. The two sides have each committed at least US$1 billion over the next five years to build what Anthropic…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Qualcomm unveiled two flagship mobile platforms at the Snapdragon Summit 2026, including the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, which changes its packaging approach to improve heat dissipation. During a media Q&A, Qualcomm Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Handsets Chris…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the US is heightening anxiety across the global auto industry, where suppliers, dealers, and lawmakers fear it could open the door to Chinese carmakers in America. For readers worldwide, the issue matters because it could reshape EV pricing, supply chains…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
IonQ's Superion 256 quantum computer will be the first on-premise QPU at NVIDIA's Accelerated Quantum Research Center, integrating with NVIDIA's GB200 NVL72 accelerated computing rack via NVQLink. This collaboration aims to advance quantum-GPU architectures and hybrid software frameworks for…
DigiTimes (headlines)
The commercial adoption of Micro LED display technology is facing another major setback. Just one year after making waves with the world's first commercial Micro LED smartwatch, Garmin has dropped the technology from its latest lineup. The newly announced Fenix 9 series, unveiled in August 2026…
ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware
At Qualcomm Summit 2026, the company announced that Qualcomm will start to support Snapdragon X2 on Debian and Ubuntu The post Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Debian and Ubuntu Support in 2026 appeared first on ServeTheHome.
DigiTimes (headlines)
India's Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) is investigating LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics over whether they underpaid import duties on display parts for OLED televisions, Reuters reported on September 23, citing five unnamed sources. The probe puts a tariff classification question…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Alibaba has formally unveiled its self-developed Zhenwu V900 AI chip at the 2026 Apsara Conference, with CEO Eddie Wu describing the T-Head Semiconductor-designed processor as "China's most powerful AI chip to date." The V900 is intended to fill part of the computing gap left by restrictions on…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Supermicro has begun shipping Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, moving the rack-scale platform from product demonstrations into customer deployments as AI infrastructure increasingly requires integrated computing, power, and liquid-cooling systems.
DigiTimes (headlines)
MoveIt's integration with Qualcomm's Dragonwing and Arduino platforms could give robot builders a more direct route from on-device AI to motion planning and control, while also testing whether the open-source project can retain its cross-platform standing under new ownership.
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
Even for the non-musical among us there is a lot of fun to be had with a simple synthesiser and sequencer, as the different controls can be manipulated to show …read more
Nature / Science / Nature Biotechnology
The CD1 system responds to lipids, not proteins, driving reactions to bee stings, bacteria, and possibly poison ivy
DigiTimes (headlines)
Intel is positioning closer coordination between CPUs, GPUs and other computing resources as a key requirement for the next phase of AI, as agentic AI shifts workloads from model inference toward complex task execution.
IoT Analytics / balena
Learn how balena has collaborated with NVIDIA to make their official Yocto Linux release of JetPack 7.2 available on balenaOS for the NVIDIA Jetson Thor. The post balena production support for NVIDIA Jetpack 7.2 on Jetson Thor appeared first on balena Blog.
Notebookcheck
The Oppo K14 series includes affordable phones such as the K14, K14x, and K14 Lite. The company has now confirmed the K14 Plus 5G, featuring the largest battery in the lineup.
Notebookcheck
After adding a wishlist feature, the Rockstar Store could be about to market new items. Pre-orders for game-specific merchandise like clothing are one scenario with a historic precedent. On the other hand, a GTA 6 Collector’s Edition or box would also warrant sending stock alerts to buyers.
The Hindu — Technology / BusinessLine — Info-tech
The entrepreneur says he is cynical about frontier model makers suddenly calling for slowing AI progress
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
The startup is building AI coding agents for C and C++ developers working in high-stakes industries such as defence, aerospace, robotics, high-frequency trading, automotive and semiconductors, ByteAsk said.
DigiTimes (headlines)
Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, the key semiconductor question is no longer simply how much Nvidia hardware Washington will allow China to buy.
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
Modern data centers, high-precision measurement systems and high-resolution radar sensors rely on extremely broadband amplifier chips that combine low noise with high output power. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF have developed a monolithic microwave…
DigiTimes (headlines)
While generative AI has surged into mainstream consumer use thanks to ChatGPT, the adoption of AI across industrial sectors has progressed at a much slower pace. Industry analysts point out that the primary culprit is the tendency of current AI architectures to "hallucinate," a fatal vulnerability…
DigiTimes (headlines)
Powertech Technology expects stronger memory packaging and testing demand, higher average selling prices (ASPs), and ramping high-end through-silicon via (TSV) DDR5 production in the fourth quarter of 2026 to drive sequential growth throughout 2026 and lift revenue to a new record. Its Taiwan…