Stories tagged hardware & chips.
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
South Korean startup Soulart has launched the Soulart Station, a markerless full-body motion tracker for VR, VTubing, and motion capture. The device uses a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor and an onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to capture 3D point cloud data and process motion tracking on the…
Light Reading / Fierce Network / Telecoms.com / RCR Wireless / Mobile World Live
Rebellions’ ATOM-Max chips move from pilot to production in SK Telecom’s consumer services In sum – what we know: South Korean AI-chip company Rebellions says its neural processing unit infrastructure is now…
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U.S. machine vision company Cognex Corp. said today that it intends to buy RealSense Inc., the robotics and computer vision startup that was spun out of Intel Corp. 14 months earlier in a deal valued at around $600 million. Nasdaq-listed Cognex will pay around $500 million in cash for the startup…
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Despite Digital Deluxe pre-orders costing the same on all platforms, Control Resonant early access is PlayStation-only. The PS5 exclusive opportunity started on September 22nd, two days before its release date. Remedy Entertainment has also announced pre-load and unlock times.
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Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek argues that game-development teams numbering in the thousands often create inefficiency through indecision and backtracking rather than delivering better results. He says GTA VI may be a rare exception, as its vast scope and high production standards could justify…
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Taipei is growing increasingly concerned over a frozen $14 billion arms sales deal that Trump has described as “a very good negotiating chip.”
The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum Robotics
Intel's Nagesh Puppala will discuss why the next phase of robotics innovation depends on more than bigger models or better simulations. The post Intel to discuss the infrastructure needed to scale physical AI at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.
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Beats has released its latest flagship headphones—the Beats 360 over-ear Dolby Atmos headphones. They offer the company's best active noise cancellation along with Personalized Spatial Audio. Swappable UltraPlush and Performance Knit ear cushions provide a customized look.
Android Authority / Android Police / Android Central / Droid-Life / SamMobile / XDA
Today, Qualcomm announced its next two chipsets to power all of the upcoming flagship-level phones going forward. Those chips will be called Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features, specs The chip you probably care about is the…
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Deal | Published by Coffee Stain Publishing, Fellowship lets you choose from different heroes and explore dungeons filled with enemies alongside your friends or other players. And right now, this RPG is 50% off on Steam.
Semiconductor Engineering / SemiWiki / EE Times / EE Journal / Electronics Weekly
The recent AI Infra Summit was exceptionally jam-packed, filled to the brim with compelling talks, overlapping tracks, and emerging technologies. Amid the noise of the event, there were many excellent presentations detailing the physical realities of scaling hardware. But one presentation in…
IonQ / Google Search Central
IonQ demonstrates the first real-time quantum error correction decoder on a single standard CPU, overcoming a major bottleneck in fault-tolerant quantum computing.
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Qualcomm has unveiled the 2 nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 SoCs, promising 5 GHz Oryon Prime Core CPU speeds alongside major gains in graphics, AI, imaging, efficiency, and connectivity. The Extreme model adds enhanced on-device AI, dedicated Adreno High…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Snapdragon flew me out to Hawaii to check out its latest chip, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and, for the first time ever, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, the company’s premier “extreme-levelled” mobile chipset. We did live benchmarking with Geekbench 6 and saw a single-core score of 4,293 and…
Android Authority / Android Police / Android Central / Droid-Life / SamMobile / XDA
A 5GHz CPU with 8K/60fps video capture, 4K/240fps slow-mo, and DLSS-style tricks?
ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware
Today at its Snapdragon Summit event, Qualcomm is launching its next-generation flagship smartphone silicon with not one, but two new members of the Snapdragon 8 Elite family. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 are both built on an unspecified 2nm process and…
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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme processor wants to run AI agents directly on your phone.
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Qualcomm fährt künftig zweigleisig: Der neue Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 erreicht 5 GHz, während die Extreme-Variante zusätzliche KI-Funktionen für die GPU bietet.
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Russian technology company Yadro has launched the Kvadra NAU LP14, a lightweight Russian business ultrabook with a 14-inch Full HD+ display, Intel Core Ultra processors and up to 40GB of DDR5 memory. The laptop weighs up to 1.1 or 1.3 kg, depending on the battery configuration, and can offer up to…
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Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel. Here are some Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3…
Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit
The Adafruit TMF8806 Time of Flight Sensor is a great Time of Flight distance sensor from ams Osram in the TMF series of chips. The TMF8806 in particular can do 20mm to 5 meters at up to 30 Hz update rate, and a dedicated low-power 200mm mode. It also has a wider field-of-view. The sensor […]
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Apple is reportedly exploring a screenless fitness tracker aimed at competing with minimalist health wearables such as Whoop and Fitbit Air. The project is reportedly backed by Apple executives Tim Cook and Eddy Cue, with engineers from the Vision hardware team involved in development.
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Coros has launched the Pace 4 Pro, and it comes in black and white dial colors. There are nylon and silicone band options that affect the overall weight, with the nylon option being lighter at 43 grams.
ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is the midst of a big reset as outlined earlier this year when the company laid off hundreds of employees and shed several smaller studios. The next phase of this shakeup is now in motion and will see more layoffs alongside shifts in how its studios operate, which…
ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware
According to patent documents originally spotted by Respawn First, Microsoft is studying ways to enhance in-game advertisement solutions. Specifically, Microsoft showcased a context-aware ad system that times ad interruptions to specific in-game events and rewards players with ad credits for…
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At Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion, Nvidia’s head of sustainability pushed back against the groundswell of anti-AI sentiment that’s unfurled in the US over the last few weeks.
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Vivo has announced two additional configurations for the newly-launched X500 Pro. The new additions have more RAM and can be purchased with up to 1TB of storage, just like the X500 Pro Max.
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YouTuber RedLogic’s Monte Carlo simulation suggests Minecraft’s mobs could theoretically kill the Ender Dragon without player input through an extraordinarily rare chain of events. The process would take nearly two billion in-game years, and the paywalled code means its probability estimates cannot…
Tom's Hardware
Amazon has slashed 33% off the price of the Samsung P9 microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2, bringing it down to $99.99.
Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit
The Adafruit TSL2585 Digital UVA and Ambient Light Sensor is a great “three-in-one” light sensor that has ambient light sensing, Infrared channel and UVA (315nm-400nm). In particular it’s not that common to get UVA narrow-band sensing on an I2C sensor, so this is great for outdoor light monitoring…