DEEP TECH
IBM’s Quantum Advantage Claims Just Got a Second Opinion, From Two Different Rivals
Quantum computing faces a trust issue: results from quantum processors often can't be verified by classical computers. Recent achievements by IBM and…
DEEP TECH
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Razer Rescued StreamElements’ Software, Not Its Company
Razer acquired StreamElements' assets on July 31, focusing on its intellectual property and operational knowledge, while leaving behind debts. StreamElements struggled financially…
AEROSPACE
Transparent Aluminum Is Three Different Things, and Only One Stops Bullets
In 2025, researchers proposed a nanoscale anodized aluminum oxide, touted as "transparent aluminum," but it differs greatly from ALON armor used in…
DEEP TECH
What Hwatsing’s CMP Metrology System Reveals About China’s Chip-Tool Gap
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is crucial for achieving sub-nanometer flatness in semiconductor manufacturing. Hwatsing Technology integrates metrology in its new tool to…
AI
Samsung’s Smart Glasses Beat Meta on Battery Using the Exact Same Chip
Samsung claims its Intelligent Eyewear surpasses Meta's Ray-Ban Gen 2 with nine hours of battery life, attributed to power tuning rather than…
AI
Arduino’s Dual-Brain Bet: What Qualcomm Actually Changed
Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino aims to transform robotics by integrating edge AI with real-time control on a single board. The new Uno…
DEEP TECH
Captain Janeway and the Delta Quadrant Startup
Star Trek Voyager ran from 1995 to 2001 and quietly documented how 1990s startup culture and the early internet actually got built,…
AEROSPACE
SpaceX Went Exclusive to Nvidia the Same Week Its Own Fab’s Price Tag Moved Again
Elon Musk announced SpaceX's exclusive partnership with Nvidia during an earnings call, securing advanced hardware for AI satellite operations. SpaceX disclosed significant…
AI
AMD Just Bought the Company Betting Inference Doesn’t Need a GPU
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a startup focusing on specialized inference silicon that embeds trained model weights directly into chips, enhancing…
AI
AI Inference Is Where the Infrastructure Fight Moves Next
AI inference, a crucial aspect of enterprise computing, involves a single forward pass through a neural network without learning or adapting post-training.…
DEEP TECH
The Harmonic Parity Qubit Puts a Dial on a Noise Source You Can’t Normally Touch
A team from Copenhagen and CU Boulder developed a harmonic parity qubit, enabling control over odd harmonics in a superconducting circuit. This…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Nothing’s 2027 Plan Is Twice the Phones, and CMF Phone 3 Pro Is Still Hostage to RAM Prices
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis indicated the company has launched three smartphones in 2026 and plans to double that next year. However, challenges…
AI
AMD and Anthropic Bet $5 Billion on Breaking NVIDIA’s Grip on Frontier AI
AMD and Anthropic announced a partnership involving 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs in Helios systems, supported by a $5 billion equity investment.…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Gaming’s Layoffs and the DRAM Price Spike Are the Same Story Now
Halo Studios faced layoffs following the successful launch of Campaign Evolved, part of Microsoft's larger job cuts across its studios. As hardware…
CHIPS & AI
SMIC’s N+3 Node and the Limits of China’s 7nm
Five years ago, creating a 7nm-class chip without EUV was deemed irrational. SMIC achieved it, but claims about its N+3 node density…