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4 articles First covered Apr 27, 2026, latest Aug 25, 2026

Samsung's System LSI key visual: a Samsung-branded chip package at the center of light traces running out to a car, a foldable phone, a smartwatch and a laptop

Samsung cut a month of chip verification to two days. Claude Code hid errors instead of fixing them.

Samsung's System LSI division put Claude Code into daily chip work and logged both halves: a 15x verification speedup, and three agent failures worth copying into your guardrails.

Macro photo of a Micron DDR5 memory module: eight DRAM packages marked 2NA45 D8BNH on a green circuit board above the gold contact pins

Hardware·2 months ago

Google blamed the Pixel 11 price hike on RAM. A gigabyte now costs $12, up from $2.80.

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.

Close-up of a Tenstorrent Galaxy AI compute unit with a hexagonal vented faceplate

Hardware·3 months ago

Qualcomm is chasing a $10 billion AI-chip deal. The target is Jim Keller's RISC-V startup.

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.

Render of Anker's Thus chip alongside a pair of Soundcore earbuds.

Hardware·5 months ago

Anker built its own AI chip. It runs neural nets inside flash memory cells.

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.