Today's Hardware Pulse
Nvidia driver hints at progress on next‑gen DLSS 5
Nvidia’s latest GeForce Game Ready driver (610.47) adds three new DLSS profile options, indicating continued work on DLSS 5 neural‑rendering technology. The earlier DLSS 5 reveal sparked debate over AI‑driven image alteration, and this driver update provides the first concrete sign of advancement.
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By the numbers: Cyient Semiconductors raises $30M Series funding
Microsoft Commits $1 Billion to Thailand for Cloud and AI Infrastructure
Microsoft announced a commitment of more than $1 billion to build cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand from 2026 to 2028, its largest Southeast Asian investment to date. The plan covers green‑energy data centers, sovereign‑cloud services, and large‑scale AI skills training for Thai workers. Partnerships with local firms such as AIS, CP Group and True IDC will accelerate deployment. The initiative aims to position Thailand as a regional digital and AI hub.
Farsoon Unveils Its Two New Large-Format Metal 3D Printers: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Farsoon Technologies introduced two large‑format metal powder‑bed‑fusion printers at TCT Asia 2026: the FS812M‑U and the FS1311M‑U. The FS812M‑U retains an 810 × 810 mm footprint while extending build height to 1.7 m and reducing its overall footprint by 41 %. The FS1311M‑U scales up...
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro PCIe Sound Card Review
Creative's Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro re‑enters the internal sound‑card market as an affordable PCIe upgrade for PCs with sub‑par onboard audio. Priced under $100, it offers 24‑bit/192 kHz playback, 7.1‑channel support and a modest headphone amp. The card relies on...
Walrus Pitches MemWal as Decentralized Storage for AI Agent Memory
Walrus Foundation, backed by Mysten Labs, launched MemWal, a developer SDK that offers decentralized, blockchain‑based storage for AI agents' long‑term memory. The service leverages the Walrus protocol on the Sui blockchain and is paid for with the $WAL token, which...
OnePlus Nord 6 Key Specifications Revealed Ahead of Launch: 50MP Sony Camera, 9,000mAh Battery Confirmed
OnePlus will debut the Nord 6 in India on 7 April at 7 PM, with sales routed through Amazon. The mid‑range flagship packs a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset, a 1.5K 165 Hz AMOLED screen, IP66‑IP69K water‑dust protection, a 50 MP Sony camera, and a massive 9,000 mAh...
Nebius to Construct 310 MW AI Factory in Finland
Nebius announced the construction of a new AI factory in Lappeenranta, Finland, with up to 310 MW of power, expected to serve customers starting in 2027. The project follows a recent 75 MW expansion in Mäntsälä and contributes to Nebius’s goal of...
Name that Ware, March 2026
In the March 2026 “Name that Ware” post, the author disassembles a malfunctioning electronic device and shares only a fragment of its circuit board, challenging readers to pinpoint the exact make and model. The piece notes that many such devices are...
Helium Shortage Threatens AI Chip Production Amid Conflict
The AI boom is running into an unexpected constraint. The Iran conflict is disrupting helium supply from Qatar, a key input in semiconductor manufacturing for AI systems. As availability tightens, costs rise and production becomes more fragile. It is a reminder that...
MiniV-Bat 234g, 74 Minutes Hover Bicopter
Researchers unveiled the MiniV‑Bat, a 233.7 g micro bicopter that can hover for 74 minutes, setting a new benchmark for endurance in its class. By redefining control to focus on the rotor disc rather than the vehicle’s attitude, the team eliminated non‑minimum...
Dell Polishes PowerProtect, PowerScale and PowerStore
Dell announced a suite of upgrades to its PowerProtect backup appliances, adding a unified dashboard, AI Assistant, and TLS v1.3‑enabled secure transport. The enhancements also include a 75:1 data‑reduction ratio, new analytics for Oracle RAC, and simplified Cyber Recovery deployment. Security...
Modder Boots Bartlett Lake Core 9 CPU on Z790 Using AI-Guided BIOS Mod
Enthusiast successfully booted Intel’s Bartlett Lake‑based Core 9 273PQE on an ASUS Z790‑AYW OC WIFI motherboard by flashing a custom BIOS and injecting the missing microcode. The 12‑core, performance‑only processor, normally limited to embedded platforms, was guided through the process with Claude...
Major Upgrade for Musgrove Park Hospital’s Nuclear Medicine Department
Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset has reopened its Nuclear Medicine department after a comprehensive refurbishment and the installation of a state‑of‑the‑art SPECT/CT scanner. The new hybrid system delivers high‑resolution 3‑D images that combine functional and anatomical data, expanding the range...
Schneider Electric Joins Thread Group Board of Directors
Schneider Electric, a global energy‑management leader, has been appointed to the Thread Group Board of Directors, deepening its involvement in the open‑source IoT networking protocol. The move comes as Thread surpasses 1,000 consumer products and pushes Thread 1.4 into commercial and...
Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions and Trade Restrictions, AI Emerges as Key Driver of Global Trade Growth: McKinsey
Artificial intelligence is reshaping global commerce, with AI‑related hardware shipments surging nearly 40% in 2025 and accounting for roughly a third of worldwide trade growth. The United States emerged as the dominant demand hub, adding about half of all new...
Autonomous UXO Detection Demonstrated with Bayonet 350 AUGV
Greensea IQ demonstrated autonomous detection and classification of unexploded ordnance (UXO) using its Bayonet 350 autonomous underwater ground vehicle (AUGV) at a former military bombing range in Maine. The vehicle towed White River Technologies’ APEX three‑dimensional electromagnetic sensor and, aided by...
Lenovo ThinkStation P5 Gen 2 Packs Xeon 600 and Dual RTX PRO GPUs
Lenovo unveiled the ThinkStation P5 Gen 2, a premium workstation built around Intel Xeon 600‑series CPUs with up to 48 cores and dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell‑Max‑Q GPUs. The platform supports up to 1 TB of DDR5‑6400 ECC memory, PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs up to 4 TB...
Hithium Signs 3GWh Long-Duration BESS Agreement with APAC Investor Brawn Capital
Chinese battery maker Hithium announced a strategic cooperation with Hong Kong‑based private‑equity firm Brawn Capital to develop up to 3 GWh of long‑duration battery‑energy‑storage systems (BESS) in the Asia‑Pacific region by 2030. The partnership will leverage Brawn’s investment and project‑development capabilities,...
JetStor Deploys 80PB Archive Using WD Ultrastar Drives for Government
JetStor completed an 80 PB on‑premises archive for a government agency using 132 XS3324D POD‑based storage systems. The solution packs roughly 3,200 Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC590 26 TB drives into a dual‑Fibre Channel fabric for redundant, isolated access. Modular design lets...
RIEGL LiDAR Systems Enable Rapid Dual-Sensor Mapping of Austria’s Piesting River
Alto Drones employed RIEGL’s VQ-840-G bathymetric and VUX-120 topographic LiDAR sensors on a helicopter to map Austria’s Piesting River in a single day, covering over 60 kilometers of both dry and submerged terrain. The February 2025 survey, part of a...
Large‐Scale Ferroelectric Ceramic Wafer Achieved by Sintering Strategies for Sensitive High‐Temperature Self‐Powered X‐ray Detection
Researchers have fabricated a large‑scale ferroelectric ceramic wafer (PNN‑PZT) using solid‑state sintering, achieving record‑high sensitivity for self‑powered X‑ray detection. At 150 °C the detector reaches 248 µC Gy⁻¹ cm⁻² sensitivity and a detection limit of 6.76 nGy s⁻¹, surpassing commercial amorphous selenium devices. The material exhibits...
Drone Surveying without GCPs? Wingtra Says It’s Here
Wingtra introduced the SURVEY61 payload for its WingtraRAY drone, promising survey‑grade accuracy of up to 3 cm without using ground control points. The system leverages a post‑processed kinematic (PPK) workflow and ultra‑high‑resolution imagery to map large sites in minutes rather than...
Energy Department Aims to Build Full-Fledged Quantum Computer Within 3 Years
The U.S. Department of Energy announced a goal to deliver a fault‑tolerant quantum computer by 2028, aiming for scientifically useful calculations. The Office of Science, with an $8.4 billion annual budget, will host the quantum user facility at a national laboratory....
Vodafone Idea Is Using Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme to Modernise Transport Network
Vodafone Idea (VIL), India’s third‑largest telecom operator, has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) to upgrade its transport network. The rollout achieved a 1.6 Tb/s capacity on a meshed Data Center Interconnect (DCI) fabric, aimed at meeting surging bandwidth demand. VIL expects the...
Proactive AI for EV Charging
Denmark‑based Monta has embedded an AI layer into its EV charging platform, analyzing data from over 260,000 charge points and 3 million monthly sessions. The system continuously surfaces anomalies, recommends actions such as firmware updates, and even answers natural‑language queries about...
Seeed Studio reTerminal D1001 Targets HMI Systems with ESP32-P4 and Integrated Display
Seeed Studio unveiled the reTerminal D1001, an 8‑inch human‑machine interface device that bundles a capacitive LCD, touch controller, camera, audio, and motion sensors into a single board. The terminal is powered by a dual‑core ESP32‑P4 RISC‑V processor running up to...
Lenovo Legion 7 and the N1X Leak: Will This Be the First Serious Windows-on-ARM Gaming Laptop?
A leaked Lenovo model code, "Legion 7 15N1X11," suggests the gaming brand may soon ship a laptop powered by NVIDIA’s upcoming N1X ARM platform. The N1X is believed to be derived from NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace‑Blackwell superchip, which combines an ARM CPU with...
HMRC Is Watching You…
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has purchased advanced phone‑scanning hardware and analysis software to extract data from seized mobile devices, bolstering its electronic intelligence capabilities. The move signals a shift toward digital surveillance in tax enforcement, aligning the agency with...
What Are The Biggest Limitations Of Supercomputers?
Supercomputers such as LLNL’s El Capitan and ORNL’s Frontier excel at massive parallel workloads, powering climate modeling, AI, and jet‑engine analysis. Their performance is constrained by four core issues: workload scaling, data‑transfer latency, power consumption, and hardware reliability. While they can...
Ollama Is Now Powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in Preview
Ollama announced a preview that leverages Apple’s MLX framework to deliver the fastest local inference on Apple Silicon Macs. The integration taps the GPU Neural Accelerators of M5‑series chips, boosting both time‑to‑first‑token and token‑per‑second rates, especially with the Qwen3.5‑35B‑A3B model...
RFID Warehouse Management System: The Modern Guide To Real-Time Visibility And Operational Efficiency
RFID warehouse management systems enable real‑time, hands‑free tracking of inventory through tags, readers, and software integration, dramatically improving accuracy and labor efficiency. While offering superior range, bulk scanning, and data capacity over barcodes, full RFID deployments require significant hardware, software,...
T‑Mobile Hikes Device Restocking Fees as Postpaid Churn Climbs to 0.93%
T‑Mobile announced a new tiered restocking fee—$75 for devices over $600, $50 for $300‑$599, and $25 for under $300—while its postpaid churn rose to 0.93% in 2025. The move comes amid a wave of price hikes and intensifying competition from...
Laser‑Written Europium Emitters on Graphene Enable Submicron Nanophotonic Circuits
Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University have demonstrated a laser‑assisted area‑selective ALD/MLD process that writes europium‑organic light‑emitting layers onto graphene with submicron resolution and over 90% selectivity. The technique creates patterned photoluminescent heterostructures and reversible n‑type doping,...
US Researchers Demonstrate Noise‑Free Phonon Laser for Unjammable Quantum Navigation
Scientists at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have built a squeezed phonon laser that dramatically reduces thermal noise, a breakthrough that could power unjammable quantum compasses and next‑generation nanomechanical devices.
Sphere Brings HubT Drone Manufacturing In-House to Speed Deployments
Sphere, an Australian full‑stack tech provider, is moving HubT autonomous drone hardware manufacturing entirely in‑house. The shift includes enclosure fabrication, electrical integration and compliance testing, enabling faster, repeatable production cycles. New trailer and skid deployment configurations reduce site preparation, while...
Don't Ignore Your Desktop PC's Empty M.2 Slots - They're More Useful than You Think
Desktop PCs built in the last decade often include one or more unused M.2 slots, which are wired directly to PCIe lanes. These slots can host high‑speed Ethernet adapters, USB‑C/A expansion cards, secondary GPUs, or additional NVMe SSDs, delivering noticeable...
Robotic Arm Enables Smart Cleaner to Pick Up Clutter
This Smart Cleaning #Robot Picks Up Clutter and Scrubs Floors with a #Robotic Arm by @XRoboHub #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation https://t.co/kcCM6YUmin
High-Flying Chip Stocks Bear Brunt of Iran War Risk-Off Trade
Investors are shifting to risk‑off positions as the Iran‑Israel conflict drags on, targeting the technology sector that has outperformed recently. Micron Technology fell 9.9% on the day and slipped further in after‑hours trading. Samsung Electronics dropped nearly 5% and SK...
Edge AI Cuts Latency by Bringing Compute Closer
From #GTC26: AI performance depends heavily on architecture. @TMobileBusiness and NVIDIA are exploring how edge compute can reduce latency by processing data closer to where it’s created. ⚡ https://t.co/DwZzkJUOUm T-Mobile for Business Partner #EdgeAI https://t.co/ldQpk1r5j2
China’s E-Trucks Are Poised to Dominate the Nascent EU Market
Chinese electric‑truck makers are rapidly establishing a foothold in Europe, with Windrose opening an assembly plant in Belgium, SuperPanther gearing up production in Austria, and BYD expanding its Hungarian facility to exceed 1,000 e‑trucks annually. Sany, leveraging its heavy‑duty heritage,...
Avoid Cheap Amazon Dashcams, Consumer Reports Says These Are Better Options
The dashcam market is expanding, with 36% of non‑owners planning a purchase within a year. Consumer Reports evaluated dozens of units and highlighted five top models for 2026, priced between $99 and $480. All recommended cameras feature GPS, resolutions above...
Intel Announces The "Optimization Zone"
Intel unveiled the Optimization Zone, a GitHub‑hosted repository that consolidates performance tuning guides and best‑practice recipes for Intel data‑center hardware. The hub currently includes optimization recipes for workloads such as Apache Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, and Spark, and provides BIOS tunables,...
Retro‑Bit Launches $49.99 Sega Saturn Pro Controller with Hall‑effect Sticks
Retro‑Bit introduced the Sega Saturn Pro controller, a $49.99 wireless gamepad that blends the original six‑button design with modern hall‑effect joysticks. The launch targets retro enthusiasts seeking contemporary functionality without abandoning the console’s iconic feel, while reviewers note trade‑offs in...
Orbital AI's Starcloud Raises $170M, Hits $1.1B Unicorn Valuation for Space‑Based Data Centers
Orbital AI’s Starcloud announced a $170 million financing round that lifts its valuation to $1.1 billion, making it Y Combinator’s quickest path to unicorn status. The funding fuels the launch of its next-generation satellite data center, Starcloud‑2, and underscores growing venture interest...
Neurosurgeons at St. Michael’s Use Low-Field MRI to Assist Surgeries
Neurosurgeons at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital have begun using the Hyperfine Swoop® low‑field MRI scanner inside the operating room to obtain immediate post‑resection images. The portable 0.064‑tesla device can be wheeled into the suite, allowing scans within minutes while surgeons...
Object of the Week: The State-of-The Art Scanner Transforming the Art of Film Preservation
The BFI National Archive has installed a LaserGraphics Director 65, a flagship film scanner capable of handling 8 mm to 70 mm formats at up to 13.5k resolution. Funded by the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology’s Infrastructure Fund, the machine was...
Silicon Test Data Shifts From Byproduct to Cost Driver
#Technology #Thread #Semiconductor #Manufacturing #Data The Semiconductor EPDT Article On Silicon Test Data Cost: 1/ - Published In Electronic Product Design And Test (EPDT), My Latest Article Explains How Silicon Test Data Has Evolved From A Byproduct Of Manufacturing Into A...
Samsung Electronics Launches Silicon Photonics Foundry Business
Samsung Electronics' foundry division announced its entry into the silicon photonics market, unveiling a roadmap that moves from photonic integrated circuits (PICs) this year to optical engines in 2027 and turnkey co‑packaged optics (CPO) by 2029, with a next‑generation CPO...
Next-Generation Optical Sensor Can Read Photon Spin Across UV-to-Infrared Wavelengths
Researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) have created a quantum‑dot photodiode that can detect the spin of photons—circularly polarized light—across an ultra‑wide spectral range from ultraviolet to short‑wave infrared. By embedding a chiral layer in the...
Three-in-One Diode Integrates Sensing, Memory and Processing for Smart Cameras
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have created a single semiconductor diode that simultaneously senses light, stores data and performs processing. By inserting an aluminum‑gallium‑nitride layer into a GaN p‑n junction, the device can switch among...
My Favorite Smart Notebook for To-Do Lists Is Currently on Sale
Tech reporter Allison Murray highlights the Boox Note Air 5C e‑ink tablet, now $41 cheaper in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale. The bundle adds an orange folio cover for just $10, bringing the total to $540. The device features a Pen 3 stylus...