Today's Hardware Pulse
Nvidia driver adds DLSS 5 profile options, hinting at next‑gen AI rendering
Nvidia's GeForce Game Ready driver 610.47 introduces three new profile settings—Enable DLSS NR override, Enable DLSS NR SL override, and Override DLSS NR presets—suggesting continued development of its upcoming DLSS 5 neural‑rendering technology. The earlier DLSS 5 reveal sparked debate over AI‑driven image alteration, after which Nvidia fell silent on the feature.
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By the numbers: Cyient Semiconductors raises $30M Series A
I Wasn't Expecting a Lenovo Legion Go 2 Price Cut, but You Can Save over $500 with This Deal
Lenovo has slashed the price of its Legion Go 2 handheld from $1,599.99 to $1,071.99, a discount of over $500. The base model features an AMD Ryzen Z2 CPU, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB storage, positioning it as a high‑performance alternative to the Steam Deck OLED. The discount arrives amid a broader 2026 trend of rising hardware costs, making the deal notable for gamers seeking premium performance at a lower price. Availability is limited, and the promotion may be short‑lived.
AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds
Mesa 26.2‑devel now includes a reorganization of AMD’s RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, separating graphics code into a new "gfx" subfolder and multimedia code into an "mm" folder. This structural change enables builds that provide video acceleration via VA‑API without requiring OpenGL...
Arm Predicts $2B AGI‑CPU Demand, Fueling AI‑driven CPU Renaissance
MyPOV: @Arm and the CPU renaissance https://t.co/Xwzt9rwrq3 Arm said the company sees $2 billion in customer demand for its AGI-CPU through 2027, double what it saw just a few weeks ago. Arm is becoming one of the headliners for what's...
Kensington Boosts Charging Efficiency with New GaN Products
Kensington has broadened its USB‑C gallium‑nitride charging line with a 70W three‑port adapter, a 140W four‑port adapter, and a 240W USB‑C to USB‑C cable. The GaN‑based devices deliver high‑speed power while staying compact and cool, thanks to superior efficiency over...
Samsung’s Flagship Laptop Is a MacBook Pro Clone Gone Horribly Wrong
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book6 Ultra as a Windows‑based answer to the MacBook Pro, pricing it at $3,800 and equipping it with a 16‑inch OLED screen, Intel Core Ultra 7 356H CPU and an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU. While the display and discrete...
The Health Impact Alliance Collaborates with Infineon to Redefine Independent Living for the Aging Population
The Health Impact Alliance (HIA) has partnered with semiconductor leader Infineon Technologies to build a connected healthcare ecosystem for seniors. Infineon will supply its AIROC CYW55512 Wi‑Fi 6/Bluetooth 6 combo IC and PSOC Edge E84 microcontroller, delivering low‑power, secure, edge‑AI capabilities. The first...
Google Fitbit Air
Google unveiled the Fitbit Air, a $99 screenless health tracker that mirrors the Whoop band’s minimalist design. The device ships with an optional $10‑per‑month Google Health subscription, contrasting Whoop’s hardware‑free model that requires a $200 annual fee. Priced below Apple’s...
Lian Li DK-07 WOOD Combines Walnut Desk and PC Chassis
Lian Li unveiled the DK‑07 WOOD, a motorized standing‑desk that houses a full high‑end PC chassis within a dark walnut tabletop. The platform supports single‑ or dual‑system builds with removable E‑ATX trays, extensive cooling options, and a tempered‑glass panel that showcases...
AMD Instinct MI350P PCIe Targets Air-Cooled Enterprise AI Servers
AMD unveiled the Instinct MI350P PCIe GPU, a dual‑slot accelerator aimed at AI inference in existing air‑cooled data‑center servers. The card packs 144 GB of HBM3E memory delivering up to 4 TB/s bandwidth and claims up to 2,299 TFLOPS (4,600 TFLOPS MXFP4) performance. It...
Nota AI Signs AI Optimization Technology Supply and Strategic Partnership Agreement with Mobilint Accelerating Commercialization of On-Device AI on Domestic...
Nota AI, a specialist in AI model compression, has signed a strategic supply agreement with Korean NPU maker Mobilint to embed its NetsPresso® optimization platform into Mobilint’s MLA100 and MLA400 chips. The partnership aims to deliver low‑power, high‑performance edge AI...
AMD's Next Epyc Server Chip Debuts This Year with 256 Cores and 70% Better Performance
AMD confirmed that its next‑generation Epyc Venice processors, built on the Zen 6 architecture, will ship later this year. The chips will use TSMC’s 2 nm process, delivering up to 256 cores, a 70% performance uplift and roughly double the CPU‑to‑GPU bandwidth...
Semiconductor Design and Verification Services | ASIC, SoC & IC Development Partners
Semiconductor design and verification services guide companies from architecture through tape‑out, covering ASIC, SoC, FPGA, analog, and mixed‑signal projects. The offering includes RTL coding, IP integration, functional and formal verification, DFT, physical design, and post‑silicon validation. AnySilicon connects firms with...
Qualcomm Poised to Become the Next AMD
Qualcomm $QCOM warrants a serious look given its growth potential and valuation. It could be the next AMD. The next chapter of the company has started, transitioning from a mobile chip vendor to a diversified chip provider, especially the potential...
A Data Centre Fire in Almere Disabled a University, a Transport Emergency System, and the Assumption that Physical Infrastructure Is...
A fire at NorthC's Almere data centre knocked out Utrecht University’s online services, disabled the emergency‑communication platform for public transport across Utrecht province, and triggered an NL‑Alert for residents of Flevoland. Classified as a GRIP 1 incident, the blaze destroyed the...
3D-MIND: A Flexible Device that Can Be Integrated with Living Brain Cells
Researchers at Princeton have unveiled 3D-MIND, a flexible electronic mesh that can be embedded inside three‑dimensional cultures of living brain cells. The device integrates sensors and micro‑stimulators within the neural tissue, enabling stable recording and stimulation for up to six...
You Won’t Need to Leave Your Pixel Watch Behind to Use Google’s New Fitbit Air
Google has officially launched the Fitbit Air, a display‑less wearable that complements its Pixel Watch. The two devices can be worn together or separately, with health data automatically synced to Google’s Health app and filterable by device. Fitbit Air mirrors...
Semiconductor Manufacturing Cost Breakdown | Wafer, Packaging, Test & ASIC Cost Factors
AnySilicon published a detailed guide that breaks down every cost component involved in semiconductor manufacturing, from design and NRE to wafer fabrication, packaging, test, and logistics. The guide highlights how process node, wafer diameter, die size, yield, mask set expense,...
Introducing the All-New Fitbit Air
Google unveiled the Fitbit Air, a screenless, pebble‑sized tracker priced at $99.99, aimed at delivering comprehensive health monitoring without a display. The device pairs with the Google Health app, offering continuous heart‑rate, sleep, SpO₂, and workout detection, plus a week of...
Philips Hue Launches New Immersive Sports Lighting Feature for Football Fans
Philips Hue introduced Sports Live, a new feature that synchronizes compatible Hue and WiZ smart lights with live football match data. The service launches on June 11, 2026, timed for the Championship 2026 tournament, and reacts to goals, cards and other...
Whoop Vs. Fitbit Air: I Compared Google's New Fitness Band to the Industry Favorite
Google unveiled the Fitbit Air, a $100 screenless fitness band that eliminates the mandatory subscription model common to premium trackers. The Air offers basic activity, sleep, recovery and stress monitoring, with an optional Google Health Premium service at $100 per...
Google's Fitbit Air Is Finally Here, and It's the Screenless Fitness Band We've Been Waiting For
Google released the Fitbit Air, a $99 screenless fitness band that tracks heart rate, SpO₂, temperature, and activity via the Google Health app. The thin 8.3 mm, 5.2 g device works with iOS, Android, and Pixel Watch, and can be paired alongside...
A New Era for Your Health and Wellness
Google announced a unified Google Health app that merges data from Fitbit, Google Fit, Apple Health and medical records, replacing the Fitbit app. The launch also makes the AI‑driven Google Health Coach publicly available through a new Google Health Premium...
Google Ditches the Screen With the New Fitbit Air (2026)
Google unveiled the Fitbit Air, a $100 screen‑free wearable that delivers the same sensor suite as the Charge 6 while shedding the AMOLED display. The device integrates tightly with the rebranded Google Health app and its AI‑powered Health Coach, a subscription...
Global Tablet Shipments Flat at 37 Million Units in Q1 - Omdia
Global tablet shipments remained flat at 37 million units in the first quarter of 2026, a marginal 0.1 percent rise from the same period last year. Apple led the market, delivering 14.83 million tablets—a 7.9 percent year‑over‑year increase—and secured a 40.1 percent share. Samsung fell...
Orica Launches Next-Generation GroundProbe Monitoring System for Mining Operations
Orica has unveiled a next‑generation GroundProbe geotechnical monitoring system designed for mining sites that demand faster deployment and more reliable safety data. The platform introduces three purpose‑built hardware models—SSR‑XT, SSR‑FX and SSR‑Omni—paired with the MonitorIQ Next software suite to streamline...
Captello Launches Intelligent Scanner: Revolutionizing Event Data Capture with a Single Button
Captello unveiled its Intelligent Scanner, a single‑button device that captures event badges, business cards, QR codes, LinkedIn profiles, paper documents and live conversations. The scanner leverages AI to enrich data instantly from more than 25 sources, adding emails, phone numbers...
Tiny xMEMS Chip Aims to Keep SSDs From Losing Their Cool
xMEMS introduced a 1 mm‑thick µCooling chip that actively moves air inside solid‑state drives, preventing thermal throttling that can shave 20‑30% off sustained throughput. The piezoMEMS device uses tiny piezoelectric paddles to generate up to 28 cc/s of airflow while consuming just...
From ENIAC to Nvidia: Powering the Idle Transistor Era
A world full of dark compute as the journey from ENIAC to Nvidia built a world of idle transistors; or, your MacStudio vs. the planet’s datacenters: a thought experiment in silicon and power: **Well, I Can Hammer the CPUs & the...
Canon Teases Versatile New Camera, Launching May 13
Canon shared a teaser on its socials of its next camera with the tagline 'One camera, many stories', plus a May 13 launch date. Here's what it could be https://t.co/ObVQ5JnKpL
SiPearl and Semidynamics Partner to Develop EU-Sovereign Rack-Scale AI Compute Platform
European fabless CPU designer SiPearl and Barcelona‑based AI infrastructure firm Semidynamics announced a strategic partnership to create a rack‑scale AI compute platform built entirely with European‑sourced components. The system will pair SiPearl’s Arm‑based Rhea1 CPU with Semidynamics’ RISC‑V GPU/AI inference...
Anthropic Rents 300MW of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 Compute
MyPOV: @AnthropicAI buys all of @SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center capacity https://t.co/lqOJ6BKFBc Anthropic needed compute and SpaceX was happy to rent more than 300 megawatts of capacity to the LLM company. @ldignan @constellationr
Semiconductor Industry Faces Fragmented Standards and Runtime Assurance Gap
The semiconductor ecosystem is wrestling with fragmented standards, IP exposure, and the urgent need for runtime assurance. https://t.co/JHJJe29gFO #semiconductor #AI #AIgovernance #AIsecurity
RF Amplifiers Expand High-Power Range
Rohde & Schwarz has broadened its BBA300 broadband amplifier family with two new single‑band models delivering 500 W and 1 kW P1dB output power. The BBA300‑DE500 and BBA300‑DE1000 operate continuously from 1 GHz to 6 GHz without the need for band switching, improving efficiency...
TSM's Hiring Outpaces Taiwan Births, Drives US Expansion
There are 100,000 births per year in Taiwan and TSM needs to hire 10,000 people per year in Taiwan, a number which will only grow. Continued expansion in the United States is likely inevitable. Especially given immense willingness to pay a...
Arm Shares Fall Despite Strong AI CPU Demand
MyPOV: @Arm’s stock sinks even as it reveals strong interest in its CPUs for #AI servers https://t.co/UPSBFc3WSA @SiliconANGLE @Mike_Wheatley “More than four out of five of Arm’s employees are engineers, and so investors may rightly have questions about...” - @holgermu @constellationr #AIWars
Controllers Bring PQC to Boot and Root of Trust
Microchip introduced the TS1800 root‑of‑trust controller and the TS50x secure‑boot controller, expanding its TrustShield portfolio with hardware‑accelerated post‑quantum cryptography (PQC). The TS1800, built on a 192 MHz Cortex‑M4F, offers full platform root‑of‑trust features, OCP compliance, and up to double the processing...
Inference Margins Outpace Training, Driving ROIC Above 80%
As we have continually pointed out, inference margins are vastly higher than training margins. And as compute infra optimizes even more for inference workloads north of 80% will be the standard (often higher). This is the inflection for ROIC our...
Browser-Based Real-Time Indoor 3D Scanning Achieved
Big indoor scan - fully explorable in real-time on a browser. Distribution of 3DGS is pretty much solved. Blocker is still large scale capture - you need an expensive LiDAR + RGB scanner to get results like this. 360 video is still hard...
I'm Obsessed With the 'Conversate' App on These Smart Glasses
The Conversate app, built for Even Realities’ G2 smart glasses, uses AI to transcribe meetings in real time and surface contextual facts on a discreet heads‑up display. It creates post‑meeting summaries that flag action items and sync them to the...
Speculative GPU Hoarding Leads to Wasted Costs
just imagine what might happen if everybody was stockpiling GPUs at high prices for a demand that didn’t quite materialize….
Rohde & Schwarz and Greenerwave Achieve Precise and Fast ESA Antenna Characterization Using Near-Field Technology
Rohde & Schwarz and Greenerwave demonstrated a near‑field measurement that captured a full Ku‑band radiation pattern of a 50 cm electronically steerable array in just 32 minutes. The results matched simulation and CATR data within 1 dB, proving the method’s accuracy. By using the...
SCALINX Joins GlobalFoundries GlobalSolutions Ecosystem to Expand High-Speed Data Converter SoC Solutions
SCALINX has joined GlobalFoundries' GlobalSolutions ecosystem, gaining visibility on the partner portal and offering its mixed‑signal ASIC design services on GF’s low‑power 40 nm and FDX processes. The company unveiled new high‑performance data‑converter IP—a 14‑bit, 4 GS/s ADC and a 14‑bit, 8 GS/s...
Now 15% Off, Razer's Fantastic Basilisk V3 Pro Wireless Mouse with 30K DPI Sensor Is Reduced to Clear in This...
Razer’s Basilisk V3 Pro wireless gaming mouse is now 15% off, selling for $84.99 on Woot, a steep cut from its $159.99 list price. The mouse features Razer’s Focus Pro 30K optical sensor with up to 30,000 DPI, 750 IPS speed and...
ASA Opens 50,000‑Sq‑Ft Syracuse Plant to Meet Data‑Center and Defense Demand
American Steel and Aluminum (ASA) opened a 50,000‑square‑foot manufacturing plant in Syracuse, New York, on May 6, 2026. The new site expands ASA’s domestic footprint to over 450,000 square feet, positioning the company to serve accelerating demand from data‑center, defense,...
AMD Posts 57% Data‑center Revenue Jump as EPYC, Instinct AI Chips Surge
AMD reported a 57% year‑over‑year increase in data‑center revenue, reaching $5.8 billion, as demand for its EPYC processors and Instinct AI GPUs accelerated. Total quarterly revenue hit $10.3 billion, up 38%, and net income nearly doubled to $1.4 billion, positioning the data‑center segment...
Google Unveils $99 Fitbit Air, First Screen‑less AI Fitness Tracker
Google introduced the Fitbit Air, a $99.99 screen‑less fitness tracker that leans on AI‑driven health insights. The lightweight band offers seven‑day battery life, fast charging and integrates with the newly rebranded Google Health app.
ARBOR Technology Unveils ARES-2100 Series for Next-Generation Edge AI with Intel Core Series 3 Processors
ARBOR Technology introduced the ARES-2100 series, a fanless 1U edge AI system powered by Intel Core Series 3 (Wildcat Lake) processors. The platform delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI compute, including 17 TOPS from a dedicated NPU, and combines CPU, Intel Xe3...
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IonQ Details “Walking Cat” Blueprint for Fault-Tolerant Trapped-Ion Systems
IonQ unveiled the “Walking Cat” blueprint, a full-stack specification for a fault‑tolerant trapped‑ion quantum computer. The design couples >99.99% two‑qubit gate fidelity with a Quantum Charge‑Coupled Device that shuttles ions, delivering any‑to‑any connectivity without fixed wiring. It targets a scalable...
Stacking 2D Materials on Bulk Semiconductors Yields Smarter, Faster Photodetectors
A new review outlines how stacking atomically thin 2D crystals onto bulk 3D semiconductors creates photodetectors with record‑high responsivity, detectivity and gigahertz‑level speed. Van der Waals bonding eliminates lattice‑mismatch defects, allowing seamless integration of materials like graphene, TMDCs and black phosphorus with...
Koh Young Webinar to Show How Data Transparency Strengthens SMT Production Resilience
Koh Young, a leader in True3D inspection technology, is hosting a webinar on May 20, 2026, titled “From Quality to Resilience: How Data‑Driven Transparency Ensures Delivery Capability.” The session will show how AI‑enabled inspection and process‑optimization tools can be deployed...