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
DeWalt Unveils New Power Controller
DeWalt introduced the DCBPC1615, a 15 AMP Power Controller featuring six AC outlets that can charge up to 24 batteries in under five hours. The unit intelligently balances load to prevent breaker trips, keeping jobsite tools powered continuously. It is wall‑mountable and designed for a dedicated 15 A branch circuit, reducing downtime caused by overloaded circuits. The controller aims to streamline bulk charging for contractors using DeWalt cordless equipment.
Dyson’s Ultra-Thin PencilVac Fluffycones Is Tougher to Resist at $150 Off
Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones stick vacuum is now priced at $449.99, a $150 discount from its regular $599.99 list price. The ultra‑thin, sub‑four‑pound device targets quick clean‑ups, offering 55 air watts of suction and a 20‑30 minute battery life. It features...
NAB 2026: OpenDrives To Demonstrate New Storage and Edge Products
OpenDrives will showcase its Edge hybrid‑cloud accelerator and the Atlas Platform v2.11 at NAB Show 2026, occupying two booths in the West Hall. The Edge solution automates bidirectional 4K/8K media movement between central cloud or Atlas storage and remote production...
Elon Musk Announces Terafab Initiative to Build Large‑Scale Chip Fabrication Plant
Elon Musk unveiled the Terafab initiative, a plan to construct a large‑scale semiconductor fabrication facility. While the project’s budget and timeline were not disclosed, Musk’s recent $20 billion xAI funding round and his Starlink rollout illustrate his capacity to mobilize capital...
Flexible Gel Can Turn Body Heat Into Power for Next-Generation Wearables
Queensland University of Technology researchers have engineered a soft hydrogel that converts body heat into electricity, achieving a record n‑type thermoelectric efficiency for flexible materials. A 10 mm square prototype produced about 0.46 volts, demonstrating practical power generation from modest temperature differences....
GlobalFoundries Sues Tower Semiconductor for Patent Infringement
GlobalFoundries filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Israel‑based Tower Semiconductor, alleging violation of 11 patents covering analog, radio‑frequency and silicon‑photonics manufacturing processes. The complaints were lodged with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Western District of Texas, seeking injunctions...
PTZOptics To Spotlight Move 4K Cameras, Horizon Browser-Based Control At 2026 NAB Show
PTZOptics is showcasing its Move 4K PTZ cameras paired with the Horizon browser‑based control platform at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The Move 4K series delivers broadcast‑grade 4K video, flexible connectivity and AI‑driven visual‑reasoning features such as auto‑tracking and event‑triggered indexing....
This Windows Laptop May Have a Moderate Battery Life, but It Burns Bright with an OLED Display, 16GB of RAM,...
ASUS’s Zenbook 14 pairs a 14‑inch OLED screen with 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a 512 GB SSD, delivering vivid visuals and solid everyday performance. The RAM is soldered, limiting upgrades, while the SSD is user‑replaceable up to 2 TB. Intel Arc...
Coreboot 26.03 Released With Support For Intel Panther Lake
Coreboot released its 26.03 quarterly update, introducing full support for Intel’s Panther Lake Core Ultra 3 SoCs. The release also adds upstream compatibility for the Qotom qdnv01 mini‑PC, Siemens MC EHL7/EHL8 boards, and the Star Labs Starbook Horizon laptop. Additional enhancements include larger...
US Pressures Brussels to Join AI Chips Club
The United States is urging the European Union to join Pax Silica, a Washington‑led club aimed at safeguarding AI‑related semiconductor and mineral supply chains against China. EU officials stalled formal talks on membership, even as Sweden and Greece signed the...
Rollout Delays Extend Austria’s EES Biometrics Contract with Secunet Again
Austria has extended its Entry‑Exit System (EES) contract with German security firm secunet, raising the deal’s value from €14.6 million (≈US$16.7 million) to €22 million (≈US$25.2 million) and lengthening the term to March 2029. The increase reflects repeated delays, as the European Commission postponed the...
Butterfly Network Receives FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Gestational Age Ultrasound Tool
Butterfly Network has secured FDA clearance for an AI‑driven Gestational Age tool that operates via a blind‑sweep on its handheld ultrasound devices. The software, trained on over 21 million images, delivers gestational age estimates comparable to expert sonographers for pregnancies between...
Google Quantum AI Opens Willow Early Access Program for Research Proposals
Google Quantum AI has launched the Willow Early Access Program, inviting researchers to submit proposals for experiments on its cutting‑edge Willow quantum processor. The program’s submission deadline is May 15, 2026, with selection notifications by July 1, 2026. Accepted teams will gain...
IREN Leverages Ultra‑Cheap Power for AI & Mining Boom
5 high-risk, high-expectation stocks the market is watching closely 👇 $IREN IREN operates energy-advantaged data centers designed for both Bitcoin mining and AI workloads. Power cost at $0.035/kWh and fleet efficiency of 15 J/TH create a structural cost edge. Over 10,900...
Series 10 Matches Series 11—Save by Buying Older Model
The Apple Watch Series 10 is just as good as the Series 11 — here's why you should save on the previous gen model instead. https://t.co/PZbRt8jSB3
Open-Source RadeonSI+Rusticl Nearing Formal OpenCL 3.0 Conformance
The open‑source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver paired with the Rusticl OpenCL implementation has cleared every OpenCL 3.0 Conformance Test Suite case. This achievement could grant the first formal OpenCL certification to a modern AMD GPU—such as the RX 6700 XT—since AMD’s last submission in...
NearHub Frames 10: Smart Photo Frame with Environmental Monitoring
Another digital picture frame? Yep, but the NearHub Frames 10 Smart Photo Frame actually has some slick features, including environmental monitoring. Here's my detailed demo and review: https://t.co/TRCOvBe2Tc #nearhub #pictureframe #photography @nearhub_global https://t.co/VHgLAq2ZI0
High‑end 32GB RAM Stays Flat at $359
RAM pricing discourse is wild. Prices have been generally flat since January - cutting-edge price is $359 for 32GB of RAM - this hasn't changed at all for weeks.
Crescenta Valley, CA Reduces Leakage Using Smart Pressure Monitoring
The Crescenta Valley Water District (CVWD) deployed Mueller remote pressure loggers and altered pump operations to combat frequent leaks caused by aging pipes and pressure surges. Real‑time data fed into its water‑management platform enabled staggered pump scheduling, expanded tank levels,...
Top NAS Deals for Secure, Organized Data Backup
World Backup Day: The best NAS deals to keep your personal data safe, organized and accessible. https://t.co/UKfTr94bER
Oppenheimer Names Nvidia, Broadcom, Monolithic Power, Marvell Top Chip Picks
Nvidia, Broadcom, Monolithic Power, and Marvell are Oppenheimer's top chip picks $NVDA $AVGO @seekingalpha https://t.co/ydlV0xyp9W
Ameren Begins Testing Dynamic Line Rating Technology
Ameren Transmission Co. of Illinois has begun piloting Heimdall Power’s dynamic line rating (DLR) technology on its most congested transmission corridors. Since December, the utility installed 15 sensor units that clamp onto lines and will add another 15 before year‑end....
2nm Chip Design Demands New Business‑Tech Tradeoffs
Designing, developing, and manufacturing chips at 2nm and below requires a whole new set of business and technology tradeoffs that are dramatically more impactful at every turn, from architectural inception to manufacturing yield. https://t.co/MzILzSSFrN #semiconductor #2nm https://t.co/R4www8pBSv
Kingston 1TB SSD Delivers Lightning‑Fast, Adaptive Mac Transfer
The Kingston Dual USB-A/USB-C Portable 1TB SSD is one of the most fascinating demos I've recorded: A capacious storage device, it's super fast, but you can also see it negotiate optimal transfer speed with MacOS. Check it out: https://t.co/EUsSw8DAE7 #ssd...
Tieline Will Debut ViA Duo Codec
Tieline will unveil its new ViA Duo codec at the NAB Show, positioning it as an ultra‑portable broadcast platform that unifies IP workflows for remote, commentary and off‑tube productions. The device packs HDMI video output, multiple AoIP protocol support and...
Understanding 800VDC: Shaping Data Center Power Future
Tomorrow on @DiligenceStack Primer on 800vDC and how to think about the future of power in the data center. https://t.co/HIMjUJ0hIB https://t.co/5Bpqj83kUT
Lenovo Promises It Hasn't Abandoned Updating Your Legion Go 2 Drivers, Yet
Lenovo has reaffirmed that it will support the Legion Go 2 handheld through October 2029, but it has not provided a release date for the next graphics driver. The most recent major driver update arrived in December 2023 for the 32.0.21030 branch that...
ESIM and iSIM for IoT: Remote Provisioning, Flexibility and Scale
Embedded SIM (eSIM) and integrated SIM (iSIM) are reshaping IoT connectivity by allowing carriers and enterprises to provision cellular profiles over the air. eSIM uses a dedicated chip, while iSIM embeds SIM functions directly into the device’s main processor, cutting...
The AI Data Centers That Fit on a Truck
Companies are accelerating AI compute capacity with truck‑sized modular data centers. Duos Edge AI will deploy four 55‑foot pods, each housing 576 Nvidia GPUs, for a total of 2,304 GPUs, while LG CNS plans similar 576‑GPU units with future expansions...
2026 Internet of Things 50: AI Is Reshaping The IoT Landscape
AI is rapidly reshaping the Internet of Things, with the 2026 IoT 50 highlighting a wave of new AI‑driven offerings. Siemens partnered with Nvidia to build an Industrial AI operating system that will embed intelligence across manufacturing workflows. HiveMQ expanded its...
The 10 Coolest IoT Connectivity Companies: The 2026 Internet Of Things 50
The 2026 CRN IoT 50 highlights ten connectivity firms reshaping enterprise IoT in the AI era. AT&T’s $5.75 billion acquisition of Lumen’s Quantum Fiber adds 4 million fiber sites, targeting 60 million locations by 2030. Other leaders include Aeris with over 100 million devices, Myriota’s...
Powering Africa's Digital Future: Why Infrastructure, Not Access, Will Determine Who Captures Value
In 2024, only about 40 % of Africans are online and most of their traffic runs through servers outside the continent. Africa hosts just 103 data centres, with South Africa holding 61, Nigeria 23 and Kenya 19, compared with the United...
MOL and Hitachi Plan to Convert Used Ships Into Floating Data Centers
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Hitachi have signed an MOU to convert second‑hand vessels into floating data centers, with a target launch no earlier than 2027. The partnership will leverage MOL’s maritime conversion expertise and Hitachi’s data‑center operations in Japan,...
Monolithic AI Chips Trade Flexibility for Raw Power
Building a dinner-plate-sized processor like Cerebras offers immense power but sacrifices the modularity and cost-efficiency of scaling standard GPU clusters. Committing to such a massive, monolithic piece of hardware means losing the flexibility to easily scale down or swap components...
Zendure SolarFlow 2400 Pro Review: Is the XXL Balcony Solar System with 2,400 W & AI Worth It?
Zendure introduced the SolarFlow 2400 Pro, an all‑in‑one balcony solar solution delivering up to 2,400 W output, 2.4 kWh base storage and modular expansion to 16.8 kWh. The unit features four MPPT inputs for up to 3 kW of PV, AI‑driven energy management, and LAN connectivity,...
CALB Manufactures Batteries for Aridge
Chinese battery maker CALB has begun series production of its R46 cylindrical cells at the Chengdu plant for Aridge, Xpeng’s flying‑car subsidiary. The hybrid liquid‑solid batteries deliver up to 360 Wh/kg and support a 25 C discharge rate, meeting aviation‑grade safety standards...
Deploying Java Applications on Arm64 with Kubernetes
The article details how to optimize Java workloads on Arm64‑based Kubernetes clusters by tuning both the operating system and cluster configuration. It explains Java’s container awareness, recommends matching CPU requests to limits, and using flags like -XX:ActiveProcessorCount and MaxRAMPercentage for accurate...
US Startup Begins Manufacturing Grid-Scale Flywheel ESS
Qnetic, a SOSV‑backed startup, is launching low‑volume production of its Q500 solid‑state flywheel energy storage system at a new Sacramento factory. The Q500 is designed for 500 kWh capacity, 125 kW power, and up to twelve hours of discharge at lower power,...
AAIR Touts AI-Powered HVAC System Cutting Costs for Hoteliers
AAIR has launched its AI‑driven Intelligent HVAC system for hotels, promising up to 30% energy savings compared with conventional units. The compact 14.3‑inch design replaces bulky VTAC and PTAC units, freeing interior space and reducing noise. Integrated with building‑management software,...
NFL Owners Meet in Arizona to Push AI‑Driven Health and Safety Measures
NFL owners, executives and coaches gathered in Arizona to approve AI‑enabled health and safety initiatives, including sensor‑embedded footballs and new concussion‑tracking protocols. The meeting also addressed rule changes that could affect injury rates, signaling a tech‑focused shift in player protection.
Analysts Flag Two Quantum‑Computing Stocks for Five‑Year Upside
Equity analysts released research reports in the past day that single out two publicly traded quantum‑computing firms as the most promising bets for the next five years. While the analysts did not disclose specific price targets, they cited strong technology...
DigitalOcean Raises $800M to Scale AI‑ready Cloud for SMBs, Stock up 77% in 2026
DigitalOcean announced an $800 million capital raise to build AI‑ready data‑center capacity for small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The move follows a 77% rise in its shares this year and record ARR of $970 million, positioning the company for faster growth amid rising...
IPhone Fold Delayed? Why Apple’s First Foldable Might Miss September
Apple announced its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Fold, at the September 2023 event but postponed the market debut to December 2023. The delay lets Apple fine‑tune durability, leverage the holiday shopping season, and keep the September launch focused on...
QCi Quantum Optimization Machine Placed on Quantum Corridor Network
Quantum Computing Inc. has installed its Dirac-3 quantum optimization machine at the Digital Crossroad Data Center in Hammond, Indiana, making it the first commercial data‑center deployment of the system. The machine connects to Quantum Corridor’s inter‑state fiber network via a...
Avery Dennison Combats Food Waste with RFID Innovation
Avery Dennison’s new report shows that roughly two‑thirds of retailers still rely on manual inventory counts, driving record meat waste. The study estimates meat waste will cost retailers $94 billion this year and rise to $103 billion by 2030. In response, Avery...
Galaxy S26 Ultra Teardown: Amazing… Until It Breaks
The YouTube video titled “Galaxy S26 Ultra Teardown: Amazing… Until It Breaks” provides a visual disassembly of Samsung’s flagship, highlighting its premium design and cutting‑edge components. While the video showcases sleek glass and metal construction, the teardown quickly reveals fragile...
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options
The open‑source Mesa RADV Vulkan driver now includes low‑latency video encode and decode options, mirroring similar capabilities previously available only in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. Developers can activate these modes via the RADV_PERFTEST environment variable, choosing low‑latency decode, encode, or...
The 9950X3D2 Performance Speculation Thread - The Most Divisive CPU Ever?
The speculative Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears to trade higher power draw for a lower boost clock, positioning it as a niche product for enthusiasts willing to invest in custom cooling. ASUS has teased a DDR5‑8800 CL32 memory overclock on the platform, but such...
Grab $1,100 Off Lenovo's Ultimate 2-in-1 OLED Road Warrior — Two Devices for One Single Price
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 2‑in‑1 Gen 10 Intel Aura Edition, a premium 14‑inch OLED convertible, is now available for $1,593 after a $1,100 discount, down from its $2,699 list price. The device combines a 2880×1800, 120 Hz display with a 57 Whr battery that delivers...
Summary of Week 13 – March 23-27, 2026
Week 13 highlighted a wave of AI‑focused hardware announcements and strategic deals. Dell partnered with Nvidia to deliver AI‑optimized storage solutions, while Samsung and AMD deepened their collaboration on next‑generation HBM memory. Seagate introduced industry‑leading 32 TB hard drives, and IBM completed...