Stories tagged hardware & chips.
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The Dolphin development team has been focusing on Android, and this month's progress report details the addition of netplay, better rumble, and even system settings integration. However, it also includes details of how the developers endured a wave of constant AI-generated security reports.
UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED
Meta has announced Meta VR Glasses, a pair of VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams and keep the battery and the processor in a puck you clip to a pocket. Meta says they will go on sale in spring 2027 for $1,299.99 in the US. Spring 2027 is the whole of the timing. Meta ... Meta's 100-gram VR…
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European Union industry ministers are set to debate the proposed Chips Act 2.0 in Brussels on September 24, days after a senior ASML executive said the company is currently selling no chipmaking systems in Europe, highlighting the gap between the bloc's semiconductor ambitions and where industry…
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Qualcomm usually announces just one flagship processor during its annual Snapdragon Summit event. However, during the Snapdragon Summit 2026 event yesterday, the company unveiled two new high-end chips: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. One of these chips is…
DigiTimes (headlines)
South Korea's major semiconductor, display, and electronics parts factories are staying open through the Chuseok holiday as AI-driven memory demand and new Apple iPhone panel production keep lines running. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are continuing output at key plants, while display and MLCC…
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Citizen has announced the Series 8 GMT NB6092-01E, a 5th anniversary model limited to 1,300 pieces. Its case body uses Damascus steel under a gold IP finish, so each pattern differs, and it pairs a forged carbon dial with the 9054 automatic GMT.
Semiconductor Engineering / SemiWiki / EE Times / EE Journal / Electronics Weekly
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has put up $44m to support projects to make compact, lightweight universal antennas for accessing satellites, reports the Nikkei. The idea is to […] The post Japan ponders Starlink alternatives appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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YMTC has won a battle with Micron in a German court for the infringement of two patents and has been awarded injunctions protecting its IP for 10 years. The disputed […] The post YMTC wins patent battle against Micron appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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Qualcomm has bought PickNik, a software company specialising in robotics. The move is seen as Qualcomm moving further into physical AI after its Arduino and Modular acquisitions. “Robotics is one […] The post Qualcomm buys PickNik appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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Cambridge Tech Week 2026 closed last week after five days of debate, dealmaking and networking, with this year’s programme putting a sharper focus on the practical challenge of turning research […] The post Cambridge Tech Week draws 1,700 visitors appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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element14 is inviting engineers and makers to apply for the opportunity to evaluate Arduino’s new VENTUNO Q single-board computer (SBC) and share their findings with the global community. Building on […] The post Test Arduino’s VENTUNO Q SBC for free appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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A slick spectrum analyzer used to be the kind of thing that would have been tricky to include in a DIY project, but as [Mirko “mircemk” Pavleski] demonstrates, a modern …read more
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Beijing Eswin Computing Technology has cleared its Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing hearing, moving closer to becoming the market's first listed RISC-V-focused chip company.
DigiTimes (headlines)
Qualcomm is sticking with TSMC for both of its newly launched 2nm Snapdragon flagship processors, extending the Taiwan foundry's hold on Qualcomm's top-tier mobile chips even as Samsung Electronics ramps its second-generation 2nm process and steps up efforts to win advanced-node customers.
Cointelegraph
A weeklong optimization challenge cut the estimated GPU cost of preparing an experimental quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction to under $67, potentially making the “last-resort measure” a little easier on the wallet.
DigiTimes (headlines)
Qualcomm is launching two flagship platforms in 2026—the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6—signaling a new era of finer-grained flagship mobile SoC segmentation. The move has raised questions about whether pricier flagship phones are on the way.
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In a nearly two-hour interview with New York Times podcast host Ezra Klein, Huang, CEO of the world's most valuable publicly listed company, had an extensive discussion about OpenAI agents that hacked Hugging Face, the open-source AI software hub that Nvidia purchased for $13 billion this month.
DigiTimes (headlines)
Industrial PC maker IEI Integration said on September 23 that it remains upbeat on full-year 2026 revenue, expecting double-digit growth from 2025 as network security and high-end video systems ramp and visibility in medical and edge-computing orders extends to 2027-2028.
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Xiaomi stellt das 18 Pro und 18 Pro Max mit neuen Snapdragon-Chips, zwei 200-Megapixel-Kameras und Akkus mit bis zu 8500 mAh vor.
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After more than a decade away, Apple may be preparing to return to the enterprise server market. According to The Information, as reported by Reuters, the company is developing an enterprise AI server powered by its planned M8 Ultra chip and has discussed adopting Nvidia's NVLink Fusion…
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Seiko has announced the Astron Nexter HAB012J, a Shohei Ohtani limited edition of 1,700 pieces for Japan at ¥440,000 (~$2,784). It has a blue textured dial with his number 17, a pure titanium case, sapphire and the 5X63 GPS solar calibre, landing in November.
arXiv
arXiv:2609.26378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Successful mobile manipulation requires coordinated base and arm motion while maintaining accurate spatial positioning. However, demonstration-trained policies can struggle to realise the intended base motion reliably, leading to spatial…
arXiv
arXiv:2609.25408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online A/B experiments are the decision standard for user engagement, but traffic and readout time limit how many conversational-AI changes can be tested. We ask whether an offline signal designed to be computable without treatment-arm user exposure…
arXiv
arXiv:2609.25537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference is constrained by the quadratic scaling of self-attention and the linear scaling of the KV cache, increasing latency, energy consumption, and GPU memory demand as context length scales. Existing soft-compression…
arXiv
arXiv:2609.26176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Encoded-prompt attacks are evaluated almost entirely on their harmful arm: a benchmark sends obfuscated harmful requests and reports how often the model complied. We show that this arm carries almost no information about the model under test. Across…
arXiv
arXiv:2609.25405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern information retrieval increasingly employs both embedding and generative models to handle complex queries. However, current serving systems suffer from low throughput and poor GPU utilization because they execute these models in isolation…
CNET
With freshly unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite chips, Xiaomi’s 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max represent a new generation of Android flagship devices.
DigiTimes (headlines)
Samsung Electronics has reportedly revised the roadmap for its first sub-10nm DRAM generation, making a wafer-to-wafer hybrid-bonding architecture the baseline for its D0a process while moving its vertical-channel-transistor (VCT) design to a separate D0a-V derivative.
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
The German government has selected a QUDORA-led consortium for the €122 million NFQC-1k project to build a fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computer with at least 1,000 physical qubits. This five-year initiative aims to establish a semiconductor pilot line for high-performance quantum processing…