Hardware and silicon reporter. Covers CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, panel tech, and the gaming peripherals that ride the same supply chain.
Microsoft's August 1 increase put the 1TB Series X at €799.99 and £669.99. The cheapest Series S rose 43%, and Microsoft says storage and memory now cost more than 2.5x.
Samsung signed an MOU with Broadcom worth more than $200 billion through 2030 across memory, 2nm foundry and advanced packaging. Nvidia locked up SK Hynix the same day.
HBM stacks for AI accelerators outbid the DRAM in phones and laptops. Qualcomm, Roku and Google have all repriced, and IDC sees PC prices up 18.3% this year.
AMD launched the Instinct MI455X and its Helios rack-scale system, tying 72 GPUs and 31TB of HBM4 into one machine to challenge Nvidia's data-center grip.
Valve's Steam Machine is a tiny, silent SteamOS console that starts at $1,049. The hardware impresses, the value doesn't, and here's who should actually buy one.
Nvidia already dominates AI GPUs. Now it's pushing to supply the CPU, the network, and the whole rack. Here's who that squeezes and whether buyers benefit.
Bethesda confirmed Fallout 5 is in pre-production plus remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, days after Xbox's reset. Here's what's real and what's years off.
Flipper Devices says the Flipper Zero isn't abandoned, but a 700 KB flash limit is pushing firmware work onto the community while its team builds new hardware.
Realta Fusion says it converted fusion plasma energy directly into electricity on its WHAM device, an apparent industry first. It is not net-energy gain.
A Chinese system called LineShine debuted at No. 1 on the TOP500 at ISC'26, running entirely on domestic CPUs co-designed with Huawei. Here's what that means.
South Korea announced a roughly $576 billion (W900 trillion) AI-chip push led by Samsung and SK Hynix, targeting HBM, DRAM fabs, and AI data centers.
IBM showed a 0.7nm 'nanostack' transistor with ~100 billion transistors on a fingernail. It's real research, but the name is marketing and shipping silicon is years out.
Valve's living-room console launches at $1,049 to $1,428. Here's what's inside, why the price ballooned, and how SteamOS lets you skip the hardware entirely.
Qualcomm is in talks to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, per Reuters and The Information. The bet: a RISC-V challenger to Nvidia, not just phones.
Tim Cook told the WSJ that Apple price rises are unavoidable as an AI-driven memory crunch quadruples DRAM and NAND costs across every consumer device.
Snap shipped Specs, standalone AR glasses that Evan Spiegel calls the next computer. The hardware is real; the $2,195 price is the problem, and the stock fell.
SteamOS 3.8 is stable, with a new kernel, Steam Machine support, and official builds for the ROG Ally and other handhelds. The Windows monopoly on handhelds just cracked.
A Renault explainer on rare-earth-free EV motors hit Hacker News. Here's how electric cars run without the magnets China controls, and who's shipping them.
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Xbox plans significant job cuts after June 30, as new CEO Asha Sharma tells staff a 3% margin can't continue. Microsoft hasn't confirmed.
GM is pouring $900M into a new LMR battery plan, betting a cheaper chemistry gets its EVs to price parity with gas trucks by 2028. Here's the play.
Godot, Unity and Unreal get the headlines, but six open-source tools quietly do the art, levels, and dialogue work that real games ship on.
Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops put a Grace Blackwell superchip and 128GB of unified memory in a notebook, aimed at running 120B-parameter models offline.
McAfee says a free malware-as-a-service stealer called WeedHack has hit 116,000+ Minecraft systems via fake mods and cheats. Here's what it grabs and how to clean up.
A static fire test destroyed a fully fueled New Glenn at Cape Canaveral on May 28. Nobody was hurt, but the launch manifest just slipped.
Oura's Ring 5 is 40% smaller than the Ring 4, adds live workout tracking and an AI Advisor, and costs $50 more. Here's what's new and whether it's worth it.
Vivado 2026.1 introduces a five-tier licensing model. The free BASIC tier supports Windows only; Linux requires the paid CORE tier. FPGA hobbyists are pushing back.
NICT's Wi-Wi prototype hit 30 ns time sync with 20 ps jitter at 900 MHz. It isn't Wi-Fi. Jeff Geerling found a working demo at the NAB show.
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Bungie has no follow-up project for the Destiny 2 team. Sony is taking tighter management control and Marathon hasn't recovered.
Alibaba showed the Zhenwu M890 at its Cloud Summit on May 19. 144 GB of memory, 800 GB/s interchip bandwidth, and Qwen3.7-Max riding on top.
The Android Show confirmed Fall 2026 for Google and Samsung's first AR glasses, plus three new features for the Galaxy XR headset that launched in October.
PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst told staff on May 18 that single-player first-party games will stay console-exclusive. Multiplayer titles keep multi-platform.
Cisco posted $15.8B in Q3 FY26 revenue on May 14, up 12% YoY, then sent layoff notices to 4,000 staff the same day. AI orders are now tracking to $9B for the fiscal year.
Cerebras raised $5.55 billion on May 14 and closed its first day at a $95 billion market cap. The wafer-scale AI chip maker shipped the year's biggest tech IPO.
FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab hit 1,700 stars on May 12. Geerling won't recommend a Bambu printer again, and Louis Rossmann pledged $10,000 toward Jarczak's defense.
Nintendo confirmed a $50 Switch 2 price increase effective September 1 in the US, citing market conditions. The DRAM shortage caused by AI buildouts is the trigger.
Valve published STP and STL CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 on GitLab. Anyone with a 3D printer can now mod it.
SpaceX filed plans for a $55B Terafab semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas. Total spend could reach $119 billion across phases.
AMD reported Q1 revenue of $10.25B, up 38% YoY. Data center hit $5.8B (+57%) and Q2 guidance midpoint of $11.2B beat consensus by roughly $700M.
TI's first big redesign of the TI-84 in over a decade ships April 28 with a 156 MHz Cortex chip, a 50% larger graphing area, and Python on board. Exam boards still approve it.
Mercedes software chief Magnus Östberg confirms physical buttons return on the new GLC and CLA, citing software-defined vehicle telemetry from CLA drivers.
Pirate trackers hit zero uncracked Denuvo titles for the first time in 12 years. 2K's response: a token that expires every fortnight and locks you out offline.
A leaked Geekbench listing puts AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 495 on a 192GB platform with a Radeon 8065S iGPU. The Strix Halo chip it replaces capped at 128GB.
The Playdate Catalog will no longer accept titles that use ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, or Suno output for art, audio, text, or dialog. Existing titles get a label.
Pawel Jarczak pulled OrcaSlicer-bambulab off GitHub on May 1 after Bambu Lab's legal team accused him of impersonating Bambu Studio and bypassing authorization.
Samsung Electronics posted record Q1 2026 results on April 30: 133.9 trillion won revenue and 57.2 trillion won operating profit. Semiconductors did 93% of the work.
Leaked slides describe Zen 7 EPYC scaling to 288 cores per socket, with all L3 moved off the CCD onto a stacked cache die. Tape-out is October 2026, launch late 2028.
Anker's Thus chip embeds compute inside NOR flash, claims 150x more on-device AI for noise cancellation, and ships in Soundcore earbuds on May 21. Here's why it matters.
Tech YouTuber Techy Talk pulled an early Steam Controller review minutes after posting. The leaked $99 price, gyro, and magnetic TMR sticks have already split fans.
Cerebras filed an S-1 on April 17 listing as 'CBRS,' targeting roughly $23B at the prior private mark. The OpenAI inference deal is the line item that changed the story.
NASA's Orion O2O terminal hit 260 Mbps from lunar orbit to White Sands, Table Mountain, and a sub-$5M Australian station. Crewed lasercom cleared its first real test.
Elon Musk said Tesla plans to manufacture at Terafab in Austin on Intel's 14A process. It's the first major external customer Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan needs to keep the foundry alive.
At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled TPU 8t and TPU 8i, an 8th-generation split that matches Nvidia on agentic inference. Ironwood hit GA the same day.
Framework opened pre-orders for the Laptop 13 Pro on April 21. Panther Lake or Ryzen AI 300, LPCAMM2, a 74Wh battery, and Framework's first touch display.
DDR5 contract prices jumped 100% since 2025, HBM is eating 23% of DRAM wafers, and the fabs that could fix it don't come online until 2028. Here's the shape of the crunch.
Amazon's new Fire TV Stick HD ships with Vega OS, no sideloading allowed. Sources say every future Fire TV will follow. Here's what changes for users and devs.
Nawfal Motii's Aeris-10 phased-array radar beats $250,000 commercial systems at 3% of the cost. Hardware, firmware, and FPGA bitstream are all on GitHub.
Meta and Broadcom expanded their partnership to co-develop four generations of MTIA chips on a 2nm process. Here's what the deal includes and why Nvidia should care.