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
Agilent Launches S540MD Slide Scanner System
Agilent Technologies introduced the S540MD slide scanner, a whole‑slide imaging system now on sale in select European markets. The scanner holds up to 540 slides, supports continuous loading, standard rack compatibility, automated scanning modes, and AI‑assisted tissue detection. It is a rebranded Hamamatsu NanoZoomer S540MD platform. Initial rollout as an in‑vitro diagnostic covers Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Luxembourg, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, with further European expansion planned.
GNU C Library Lands X86_64 FMA'ed Cosh For A ~35% Improvement
The GNU C Library (glibc) now includes an FMA‑optimized implementation of the hyperbolic cosine function, cosh(), delivering roughly a 35% speed boost on x86_64‑v3 Intel and AMD CPUs. The change was merged by Linaro engineer Adhemerval Zanella alongside other core‑math...
What’s New in the AirPods Max 2? Breaking Down Apple’s Headphone Update
Apple unveiled the AirPods Max 2, a refreshed version of its premium over‑ear headphones, priced at $549 and shipping in April. The update centers on the H2 chip, delivering 1.5× stronger active noise cancellation, a new amplifier, and software features like...
Rubin+Groq Shows Custom Accelerators Becoming Unnecessary
The Rubin + Groq narrative is the best case $NVDA has made to date about less real need for custom accelerators. I don't think it changes the calculus for certain hyperscalers, but as it comes to silvering for training and...
DLSS 5 Rewrites Graphics, Not Just Upscales
DLSS 5 is legitimately one of the wildest things I've ever seen in graphics. It's not upscaling it's...totally reworking the image to look photorealistic(ish).
Telus and Xanadu Sign MOU on Developing Quantum Data Centre Infrastructure
Telus and Xanadu Quantum Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a sovereign quantum data centre that blends photonic quantum processors with high‑performance computing. The partnership will leverage Telus’s PureFibre network and secure, Canadian‑controlled infrastructure alongside Xanadu’s expertise...
Nvidia Forecasts $1 Trillion AI Spend by 2027
In October, Jensen Huang said he saw $500 billion in spending on the company's Blackwell and Rubin systems over five fiscal quarters through the end of 2026. Nvidia now says the opportunity will reach $1 trillion between 2025 and 2027,...
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Platform Now Mass‑Producing Seven‑Chip AI Supercomputer
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is opening the next frontier of AI. #NVIDIAGTC news: The Vera Rubin platform’s seven chips are now in full production to scale the world’s largest AI factories. Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6, ConnectX-9, BlueField-4, Spectrum-6 and Groq 3...
Inovonics Introduces AARON 656
Inovonics unveiled the AARON 656, a dual‑tuner rebroadcast receiver designed for FM and HD Radio environments. The unit uses a Maximum‑Ratio Comparison system to monitor two antennas and a combined feed, automatically selecting the strongest signal. It offers a five‑band audio...
Linux 7.1 Sched_ext To Add "SCX_ENQ_IMMED" For Tighter Control When Tasks Land On A CPU
The Linux kernel’s extensible scheduler class, sched_ext, is set to receive a new SCX_ENQ_IMMED flag in the upcoming 7.1 release. The flag forces tasks that can run immediately onto a local Dispatch Queue (DSQ) rather than queuing behind other work....
NewTek Offers Custom High-Temperature Position Sensors
NewTek unveiled custom AC‑operated linear position sensors that function reliably up to 200 °C, eliminating internal electronics at the sensing element. The accompanying NTC signal conditioners keep processing electronics outside the hot zone, converting low‑amplitude AC output into DC, current, or...
Fusing Graphics, Data, and AI Drives Future Industries
ok. I admit I am impressed by the graphics improvement of the new @nvidia DLSS 5. It's beautiful. But Jensen's comment on what it means at large was key....".We combine 3d graphics, structured data with generative AI, probabilistic computing. One of them is completely predictive, the other one probabilistic, yet highly realistic. This concept of fusing structured information and generative AI will repeat itself in one industry after another." #NVIDIAGTC
This Unassuming Amplifier Is the One Audio Upgrade that Finally Made My Speakers Sing
Rotel’s DX‑5 integrated amplifier arrives as a compact, desktop‑friendly unit that blends high‑resolution digital playback with solid analog support. Powered by an ESS ES9039Q2M DAC, it handles 32‑bit/384 kHz PCM and DSD, while offering Bluetooth aptX HD, HDMI ARC, USB, optical and...
Samsung Ends Galaxy Z TriFold Sales Three Months After Launch
Samsung will stop selling the Galaxy Z TriFold in South Korea on March 17, just three months after its launch, while the United States will continue to sell the device until existing stock is exhausted. The foldable was released in...
The 7 Best UPS Battery Backups
The guide ranks seven UPS models for home offices and small businesses, highlighting CyberPower’s CP1500AVRLCD3 as the top pick with twelve outlets, AVR and an LCD panel. Budget‑friendly options like Amazon Basics 600VA lack AVR, while APC’s SMT1500C stands out...
Phase-Locked Dielectric Resonator Oscillator
Planar Monolithics (PMI) introduced the PLO‑48D4G‑EXT, a phase‑locked dielectric resonator oscillator operating at 48.4 GHz. The unit delivers a minimum 10 dBm output with a 1.5:1 VSWR load and maintains spurious emissions below –60 dBc. Phase noise is rated at –102 dBc/Hz at a...
MSI Accuses NVIDIA of 20% GPU Undersupply, Follows ASUS Down DDR4 Production Increase
MSI’s general manager Huang Jinqing alleges NVIDIA is undersupplying GPUs by about 20%, prompting a projected 15‑30% price increase for MSI’s gaming products. He warns the broader PC market could shrink 10‑20% as AI‑driven silicon shortages persist. In response to...
Intel Says Its Xeon 6 Chips Are Set to Coordinate Nvidia’s Giant AI Servers
Intel announced its Xeon 6 host processors will serve as the central orchestration layer in Nvidia’s upcoming DGX Rubin NVL8 AI servers. The Xeon 6 chips manage memory, security, and workload distribution, positioning CPUs as mission‑critical “mission control” alongside Nvidia GPUs. Intel is demonstrating...
I Refuse to Upgrade My PC This Year — Here's What I'm Doing Instead
Tanveer Singh, a PC‑building entrepreneur, is shelving his planned AM5 platform and RTX 50 GPU upgrade due to a prolonged DRAM shortage that has driven component prices to record highs. Instead, he will allocate roughly $550‑$650 each to three alternative gaming...
‘The Last Quiet Thing’
The article contrasts a $12 Casio F‑91W watch, which has remained unchanged since 1989, with a $400 Apple Watch that continuously demands updates, health tracking, and subscriptions. It argues that modern smart devices have turned ownership into an ongoing relationship...
AI Is Causing a Power and Cooling Headache for Agencies
The latest NVIDIA AI processors are forcing federal agencies to confront unprecedented power and cooling requirements. Agencies must secure trusted partners or conduct assessments to size generators, UPS systems, and transfer switches, while private‑sector spenders are willing to invest over...
NAB 2026: Boland Communications to Show New OLED Displays and Video Wall Applications
Boland Communications will showcase its latest OLED and QD‑OLED monitors at NAB 2026, highlighted by the new 55‑inch 4K55HDR7SNB super‑narrow bezel display designed for tiled video‑wall installations. The model delivers 12‑bit 4K resolution, 700 nits peak brightness, HDR support, and a range...
AI Inference Surge Could Challenge Nvidia's Dominance
Nvidia ruled the first wave of AI by powering the training of large models. But the next phase may look different. Running AI at scale, inference is now growing much faster than training. That’s where real-world deployment happens. If the center of gravity...
Jensen Huang Hails AI Natives Powered by Nvidia
And Jensen Huang break a lance for the AI natives that run on @Nvidia. #NVIDIAGTC https://t.co/8tNGm7JDOo
Micron Completes Acquisition of PSMC's P5 Site in Taiwan
Micron Technology announced the completion of its purchase of Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation’s P5 site in Tongluo, Taiwan. The acquisition, first disclosed on January 17, gives Micron control of a 300,000‑square‑foot, 300 mm clean‑room facility. Located roughly 15 miles from Micron’s...
Nvidia Nails Heterogeneous Computing Showcase at GTC
$NVDA was going to make its best case yet for heterogenous computing at GTC. Mission accomplished today. What I told @cvpayne today as the keynote kicked off. 👏🏻💪🏻🚀 https://t.co/Jxor9SWxXD
CudaJet Unveils High‑Performance Underwater Jetpack
CudaJet: A High-Performance Underwater Jetpack Redefining Aquatic Mobility via @WevolverApp #Innovation #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech https://t.co/cF5kNZliKd
★ Apple Exclaves and the Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator
Apple’s new MacBook Neo replaces traditional hardware camera LEDs with an on‑screen green dot, but the indicator is secured by a dedicated silicon exclave. The Platform Security Guide update confirms that untrusted software, even with root or kernel privileges, cannot...
NVIDIA's BlueField-4 STX Redefines Storage for Agentic AI
NVIDIA Launches BlueField-4 STX Storage Architecture With Broad Industry Adoption With agentic AI, storage must evolve to meet the demands of real-time responsiveness and longer context windows. #NVIDIAGTC @nvidianewsroom @NVIDIAGTC https://t.co/RWwx1pijbv
Integrating Groq Keeps In‑House, Not Outsourced
Jensen is articulating what my main concern with Groq was in that as an independent solution why would I outsource all my inference. By integrating it as a part of the solution, it's just disaggregated but not 100% outsourced,...
Hyper Photonix Showcases 1.6T SiP Optical Transceivers at OFC 2026
Hyper Photonix unveiled a 1.6 Tbps silicon‑photonic (SiP) optical transceiver line built on a 200 G per lane architecture at OFC 2026, targeting AI‑driven data‑center traffic. Live demos at booth 449 highlighted the module’s high bandwidth, power efficiency, signal integrity and thermal robustness. The...
Nvidia's CPU Renaissance: Multi‑Billion Dollar Standalone Business
Jensen just said 'CPU will be a standalone multi-billion business for $NVDA' Agents on agents on agents. The CPU renaissance is among us.
NVIDIA's Co-Designed System Delivers 35× Efficiency Boost
The new system of compute from NVIDIA. Extreme co-design = 35X more throughput per MW. https://t.co/Z6JtDKckOh
AMD Zen 6 Medusa Point Engineering Sample With 10 Cores Appears
An AMD engineering sample identified as “100‑000001713” has appeared in the Geekbench database, hinting at the upcoming Zen 6 mobile processor family codenamed Medusa Point. The chip runs on a Plum‑MDS1 development board tied to AMD’s FP10 platform and sports a 10‑core...
NVDA's Compute Still Cheapest, Investors Await Shift
Jensen reminds investors that the cost of $NVDA compute is still the lowest when you consider price and output. My take: True and investor are still waiting for the day when that changes. Part of the wall of worry.
AI Chips Beat Moore's Law: 35× Cheaper, 50× Efficient
In one generation, Moore’s law would have made AI chips 50% faster. Instead, it was 35 times lower cost and 50 times higher perf per watt https://t.co/FFdwHr0nXk
Lofree Introduces 1970s Retro Mechanical Keyboard With Tri-Mode Wireless Support
Lofree unveiled its 1970s‑inspired mechanical keyboard, blending vintage typewriter aesthetics with contemporary tri‑mode wireless connectivity. The device features a matte chassis, circular keycaps, and optional olive or milkshake colors, while offering 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth 5.3, and wired USB connections with up to...
Z80-MBC2 SBC Runs CP/M
The Z80-MBC2 is a Z80 Single Board Computer. It uses SD as 'disk emulator' and a 128KB banked RAM for CP/M 3. It can also run CP/M 2.2, QP/M 2.71, UCSD Pascal, Collapse OS and Fuzix. 🔗https://t.co/mJFq6SDNY3 https://t.co/mz5BcTfw1X
Nvidia Unveils DLSS 5, a Graphics Breakthrough
Nvidia just announced DLSS 5, calling it the “most significant breakthrough in computer graphics” since the introduction of real-time ray tracing in 2018. DLSS 5 uses “real-time neural rendering” and is coming to RTX 50 series GPUs later this year...
Creative Introduces Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro PCIe Sound Card for PCs
Creative Technology has launched the Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro, a PCIe sound card aimed at desktop users seeking better audio than integrated motherboard solutions. The card delivers high‑resolution playback up to 32‑bit/384 kHz, a 120 dB signal‑to‑noise ratio, and discrete 7.1‑channel surround sound,...
Computing Advances Accelerate Creation of New Computer Models
MyPoV: computing advancements are rapidly moving to create new models of computer. @NVIDIAGTC @nvidia #NvidiaGTC https://t.co/pLwqWqrXSQ
NVIDIA AI CUDA Expands Across All Major Cloud Platforms
Jensen highlighting a few @NVIDIAAI CUDA integrations with $IBM, $DELL, integrations with "every cloud" $GOOGL, $AMZN, $MSFT, $ORCL https://t.co/MLYzhbAlp6
AI Boom Drives Global Server Market to Record $444 Billion in 2025
The global server market surged to $444.1 billion in 2025, an 80.4% jump from 2024, driven by massive AI infrastructure spending. Accelerated servers equipped with GPUs accounted for over half of revenue, with embedded‑GPU sales up 59.1% YoY. Non‑x86 platforms exploded...
Snap Leverages Nvidia to Slash Google Cloud Costs
$SNAP shoutout at #GTC from Jensen on-stage for utilizing @nvidia to bring down Google Cloud costs https://t.co/HkgyO7MNW3
NVidia Vera Rubin Delivers 50 PFLOPs, Massive Bandwidth
$NVDA Vera Rubin NVL72 by the numbers: • 50 petaflops NVFP4 compute • 260 TB/s NVLink bandwidth (more than the entire internet) • 88 custom Olympus CPU cores • 3.6 TB/s per-GPU bandwidth • 10x inference token cost reduction • H2 2026 availability https://t.co/AxiE8GBpvR
MSI Raises Gaming Hardware Prices as NVIDIA GPU Supply Drops to 80 Percent
MSI is raising prices on parts of its gaming hardware lineup by 15‑30% after receiving only about 80% of the NVIDIA GPU allocation it needs. The price hikes also reflect broader shortages of DRAM and NAND flash that are inflating...
RTX 5090 Powers First Global Programmer Accelerator
MyPoV: the world’s first programmer accelerator. RTX 5090 This is how CUDA got installed everywhere. @nvidia @NVIDIAGTC #NvidiaGTC https://t.co/8Cdk2zVzLg
NVIDIA's Massive Installed Base Fuels Ecosystem Strength
Jensen is emphasizing something he has said a few years now on the strength of the NVIDIA ecosystem. Massive installed base and architecture compatibility.
Celebrating Two Decades of NVIDIA CUDA Innovation
I personally can't believe it has been 20 years of @nvidia CUDA. Wow. #NVIDIAGTC https://t.co/d0y659DfrC
OpenClaw Competition Heats up at NVIDIA GTCC
Everyone is building an @openclaw competitor. Just ran into @mreflow and he has a DGX in his backpack. #nvidiagtc networking. Everyone is talking about the claw. Jensen just said hi to Peter. Two people everyone knows just by their first names. Said...