Stories tagged hardware & chips.
MENA/Israel: Wamda / Times of Israel
Egyptian entrepreneurship platform RiseUp and NVIDIA are bringing together startup founders, developers, industry executives, academics and other technology ecosystem stakeholders for an AI Ecosystem Reception in Cairo, as the two sides expand their collaboration around Egypt's AI ecosystem. The…
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Akash Sriram / Reuters: Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said on Thursday it has extended its licensing agreement for chips with Apple (AAPL.O), effective April…
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Deal | Long before Cyberpunk 2077 gave the genre a major boost, Deus Ex: Human Revolution was already a staple for many cyberpunk fans. The classic still boasts strong reviews today and currently costs just $1.99 on Steam.
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A startup called PicoJool that’s backed by former Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger says it’s ready to help ease the strain on artificial intelligence data centers after raising $27.5 million in early-stage funding today. The Series A round was led by Socratic Partners and saw participation…
PyPI / crates.io / RubyGems / Go index / NuGet
Scubiee — local AI code context engine: setup once, connect tools, CUDA/DirectML/MLX/CPU.
Semiconductor Engineering / SemiWiki / EE Times / EE Journal / Electronics Weekly
It just struck me that—although we don’t yet have things like Jetson-style flying cars—some of the technologies we do have go way beyond what was considered to be in the realm of science fiction when I was a young sprout. Actually, as an aside, just thinking about The Jetsons made me glance up at…
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NVMe over Fabrics RDMA initiator with direct GPU memory support
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Deploying secure, real-time Edge AI on Raspberry Pi is now simplified using LiteRT and lightweight Gemma open models. LiteRT optimizes CPU and GPU performance, delivering fast token speeds for models like Gemma4, enabling real-time local reasoning for robotics. Developers can quickly convert…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
HeyGen ported their 18B+ parameter Avatar IV video generation model to Google Cloud's Trillium (v6e) TPUs via torchax and XLA, utilizing FSDP and Ulysses sequence parallelism across an eight-chip mesh. To achieve a 1.86x speedup for real-time streaming, the engineering team pipelined exposed…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Unlock premium Google Colab compute with Google AI. Subscribers now get priority accelerators, Premium GPUs, and background execution for long training runs.
Tom's Hardware
A 3D artist looking to build a new workstation bought this RTX 5090 off of a used marketplace expecting a unit autographed by an Asus executive. But when they opened the box of the GPU, they were surprised to find that it was actually autographed by Jensen Huang himself.
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
French quantum processor maker Pasqal on Thursday said it held €312.9 million ($355.8 million) in cash following its Nasdaq listing, giving it funds to expand sales operations as it works to convert early customer interest into sustainable revenue.
PyPI / crates.io / RubyGems / Go index / NuGet
CPU molecular docking with native GNINA-compatible CNN rescoring
PyPI / crates.io / RubyGems / Go index / NuGet
Rent cloud GPUs by the hour from the Lium marketplace (H200, B200, H100, RTX 5090, RTX 4090 and more). CLI and Python SDK to launch, manage and scale GPU pods.
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Meta has announced a new pair of smart glasses that ditch the cameras and focus on audio-only interaction. Made in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica, the Ray-Ban glasses are available in two main designs that can be customized in more than two dozen ways.
Tom's Hardware
Components from the one of the free world’s most advanced fighter jets are now in the possession of the Chinese, say reports.
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Amazon’s quick commerce and grocery retail arm, Amazon Retail, which operates Amazon Now and Amazon Fresh, saw strong growth in revenue during FY26. However, the company’s losses widened sharply as expenses grew much faster than its business. Amazon Retail’s revenue from operations jumped nearly…
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
Founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is aiming to establish SoftBank as the world's leading AI platform with investments across the semiconductor supply chain, data centres, large language model development and robotics.
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Rockstar's offline advertising campaign in Miami was airlifted onto the roof by helicopter, spans several hundred square meters and is likely hard to miss from the air.
ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware
Following fan feedback, studio ShiftUp has announced that Stellar Blade on Switch 2 will now make its frame-generation an optional toggle. The post Stellar Blade on Switch 2 will now make frame-gen optional following fan feedback first appeared on KitGuru.
Tom's Hardware
WiCi wireless external GPU with onboard storage puts AI workloads reach of local machines via WiFi 7.
Engadget
Qualcomm has launched a new chip that will enable AI features on small audio devices.
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Minister Miquel Sàmper Rodríguez’s visit comes as Catalan exports to India reach €652 million and the region prepares to open a new office in New Delhi. . Miquel Sàmper Rodríguez, Minister for Business and Labour, Government of Catalonia, is in India to strengthen the growing economic relati
TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff
The TFLOPS power of the upcoming PlayStation and Xbox consoles may have leaked, and there's a significant difference between them.
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Deal | The Escapists puts players in a surprisingly detailed prison sandbox where the main goal is simple: Escape. On Steam, the game is currently 90% off for the first time and costs just $2.49 in a bundle with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
[Marios Christoforou] recently undertook a Computer Engineering degree at the University of Cypress. His final year project involved implementing a solar-powered device to count vehicular traffic, while logging results to …read more
Tom's Hardware
The latest review of the Lisuan Tech LX 7G100 shows performance comparable to AMD's Radeon RX 580 but trails the GeForce RTX 2060.
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction now costs about $67 in GPU compute, by the current estimate on the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge dashboard. A month ago, the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction was mined on Bitcoin mainnet. Building it took roughly…
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Amazon Pay India, the digital payments arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, continued to face profitability challenges in FY26, with its losses widening 33% despite a return to double-digit revenue growth after a decline in FY25. The company also witnessed intensifying competition in the UPI ecosystem…
Semiconductor Engineering / SemiWiki / EE Times / EE Journal / Electronics Weekly
Lattice Semiconductor is releasing the Lattice Mach-N2 FPGA family, for system control and security in modern infrastructure. Mach-N2 combines integrated flash, a hardware Root of Trust, and CNSA 2.0-compliant post-quantum […] The post Lattice Mach-N2 FPGA family targets system control and security…