Hardware

Fabs are funded under the CHIPS & Science Act.

The Noctua Edition PSU should be whisper quiet.

Research hints at an ‘incredibly efficient optical storage’ advance.

Let's hope this makes for a more transparent RMA process overall.

TSMC's keeping the ball rolling but healthy competition would be better.

It's more machines than humans but people are still at the heart of making sure it's all good.

A new vague plan pins domestic 65nm to 2030.

Formally referred to as a Safety Reinforced Layer (SRL), the composite material measures just one micrometer thick – or about 1/100th the thickness of a human hair. It is designed to sit between the cathode layer and the current collector (an aluminum foil that functions as a pathway for electrons) in a battery and acts as a temperature-sensitive fuse.

Corning unveils new ultra-low expansion material.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has acquired a fabrication plant to secure supplies of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors needed by the armed forces.

Cerebras's valuation is currently unclear

First proposed by retro enthusiast Eivind Bohler on the VOGONS forums a year ago, the ITX-Llama project can run DOS, or even early Windows games, on an x86-compatible system-on-chip design. The Vortex86EX module, manufactured by Taiwanese company DM&P Electronics, includes a "true" x86 ISA hardware implementation with a clock rate between 100 and 500MHz.

Not to scale, of course, but it does work! And it's about as slow as the original.

Not three years behind, as previously speculated

Microsoft will still continue its HoloLens work with the US Army.

Desktop users aren't missing out on much.

Two home-grown AI LLMs probably trained with Ascend AI chips

Western Digital gets hard drives, SanDisk gets flash.

Small, easily transportable nukes could power our data driven future.

For now, the impact is unclear.

Cerebras faces competition from Nvidia, as well as cloud providers that have developed in-house chips for running artificial intelligence models.

Initially built by Eivin Bohler, this custom mini-ITX board accurately plays classic DOS titles without requiring emulation.