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
Navitas Revenue Grows 18% in Q1
Navitas Semiconductor posted Q1 2026 revenue of $8.6 million, an 18% sequential increase, as high‑power GaN and SiC markets now account for the bulk of sales and grew roughly 35% year‑over‑year. GAAP gross margin remained negative at 9.3%, while non‑GAAP margin edged up to 39.0%. The company narrowed its GAAP operating loss to $27.8 million and non‑GAAP loss to $11.7 million, supported by a cash pile of $221 million. Navitas forecasts Q2 revenue around $10 million, a >16% sequential rise, and highlights a $3.5 billion serviceable market by 2030.
Veeco Announces InP Tool Orders Worth over $250m
Veeco Instruments disclosed more than $250 m in orders for its Spector ion‑beam deposition, Lumina MOCVD and WaferEtch wet‑processing systems. The orders target InP laser production used in silicon‑photonic transceivers and are slated for delivery beginning in 2026, with a steep...
Gyro-Stabilized Imaging Systems for Unmanned Platforms & Counter-UAS
CACI International has been added as a Gold Supplier to Unmanned Systems Technology’s global ecosystem, showcasing its gyro‑stabilized EO/IR imaging payloads for UAVs and counter‑UAS missions. The Australian‑based firm offers a portfolio that includes the sub‑900 g CM102 ISR system, the...
CTI-INTL to Showcase Ground Control & Rugged Computing Solutions at Loitering Munitions Conference
CTI‑INTL will exhibit at the Loitering Munitions USA conference on May 13‑14, presenting its rugged Ground Control Systems (8‑, 10‑, and 12‑inch models), mission‑computing platforms, and integrated unmanned technologies. The showcase highlights field‑proven reliability for UAV and UGV operations in...
Quantum Brilliance CEO Mark Luo on Deployable Quantum Systems and the Future of Diamond-Based Computing
Quantum Brilliance, founded on the premise that synthetic‑diamond chips can run quantum operations at room temperature, has become a TIME Top 100 Invention of 2025. CEO Mark Luo says the company’s strategy—eschewing cryogenic systems, investing heavily in European manufacturing, and securing...
LG C6 Sets New Standard for Mid‑Range OLEDs
We tested the LG C6 over two weeks — it's a notable upgrade over its predecessor, and sets the bar for mid-range OLED TVs in 2026 https://www.techradar.com/televisions/lg-c6-review
FalCAN Probe Is an Open-Source, STM32-Based USB to CAN/RS-485/RS-422 Adapter
The FalCAN Probe is an open‑source USB‑C adapter that combines CAN, RS‑485, and full‑duplex RS‑422 on a single STM32F042 board. It runs a fork of the candleLight_fw firmware, allowing native Linux gs_usb driver support without extra software. Mode selection is...
Chipolo and Secrid Just Created the Smartest Way to Never Lose Your Wallet Again
Chipolo and Dutch leather maker Secrid have launched a Trackable Miniwallet that houses Chipolo’s Bluetooth CARD tracker. Priced at $140, the wallet features a dedicated slot, magnetic Qi wireless charging, a 400‑foot Bluetooth range and a 110 dB ringer. The CARD...
HiPEAC Vision 2026 | CONNECT University
The European Commission’s CONNECT University hosted a HiPEAC Vision 2026 online session on 19 May 2026 to outline a distinct European roadmap for next‑generation computing and AI. Speakers argued for a paradigm that shifts from massive, energy‑hungry data centres to modular, edge‑to‑cloud...
Hut 8 Signs Nearly $10bn Data Centre Lease
Hut 8 announced a 15‑year lease worth $9.8 billion for its Beacon Point data‑centre campus in Nueces County, Texas, securing 352 MW of compute capacity and up to 1 GW of power. The agreement, with an unnamed major tech firm, also includes a 500 MW...
How Elon Grew to Love Anthropic
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will supply Anthropic with more than 300 MW of compute power—over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs—from its Colossus 1 data center, converting idle capacity into a high‑margin revenue stream just before SpaceX’s anticipated IPO. The partnership helps Anthropic address a severe...
AI Data Center Boom Squeezes Consumer Tech’s Chip Supply—Even Though They Use Different Chips
The rapid construction of AI‑focused data centers is gobbling up the industry’s most advanced chips, especially high‑bandwidth memory and GPUs. Although smartphones and PCs use low‑power system‑on‑a‑chip designs, they are now competing for the same semiconductor capacity. The shortage is...
Vishay Launches Compact Proximity Sensor with 600 Mm Detection
Vishay Intertechnology has launched the VCNL36758, a compact high‑sensitivity proximity sensor that can detect objects up to 600 mm away. The device integrates an IR emitter, photodiode, amplifiers and a 12‑bit ADC in a package 65 % smaller than previous models, and...
SEMI Summit Spotlights Europe’s Chiplet and Packaging Push
The SEMI 3D & Systems Summit will take place June 17‑19 in Dresden, putting Europe’s advanced packaging, chiplet ecosystems and heterogeneous integration front‑and‑center. Attendees—including chipmakers, equipment suppliers and research institutes—will debate AI hardware, hybrid bonding, co‑packaged optics and system‑level design....
AI Demand Keeps 3nm and CoWoS Capacity Tight Through 2027
AI-driven demand for high‑performance chips is tightening supply of advanced 3nm wafers and 2.5D/3D CoWoS packaging through 2027. TrendForce reports that TSMC remains the dominant supplier of 3nm capacity, making its fab slots a critical bottleneck for AI GPUs, data‑center...
Musk’s AI Compute Empire Takes Shape as xAI Plans $119B Chip Factory, Sells Spare Capacity to Anthropic, and Battles OpenAI...
Elon Musk’s AI ambitions are coalescing around a $119 billion semiconductor fab in Texas, dubbed “Terafab,” to supply chips for AI servers, rockets, autonomous vehicles and orbital data centres. Simultaneously, xAI is monetising idle compute by selling the entire capacity of...
Why Big Tech Is Obsessed with Hiding Its Reality
Big‑tech firms such as Amazon, Canberra Data Centres (CDC) and Microsoft have been fighting to keep their aggregated energy and emissions data out of Australia’s NGERS reporting system, citing trade‑secret protections. Despite public claims of net‑zero operations, NGERS data shows...
I Used the World's Thinnest 13-Inch Tablet, and It Made Me Ditch the iPad Pro
Huawei unveiled the MatePad Pro Max, a 13.2‑inch tablet that measures just 4.7 mm thick and weighs 509 g, making it the thinnest and lightest device in its size class. It pairs a 3K OLED display with a matte, anti‑glare coating and...
U.S. Army Trains with New Bumblebee V1 Counter-Drone Interceptor
The U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division began training with the Bumblebee V1, a first‑person‑view counter‑drone system, at Fort Drum in partnership with Joint Interagency Task Force 401. The FPV multirotor not only intercepts hostile UAVs but also provides short‑range reconnaissance,...
How to Forecast China’s Lithography Leap
The RAND report compares the Delphi method with crowdsourced forecasting to predict whether China will secure deep‑ultraviolet and extreme‑ultraviolet lithography machines by 2026 and 2030. The Delphi workshop outperformed the crowd by 12% on the 2026 question, citing the short...
AI Data Center Infrastructure Drives Pennsylvania Energy Expansion
AI workloads are driving a wave of dedicated energy projects as hyperscale operators seek reliable power for compute‑intensive tasks. UGI Energy Services and Prime Data Centers announced a partnership to build a natural‑gas pipeline and on‑site generation facility in Pennsylvania,...
General Dynamics Wins Crypto Systems Contract for 18 Allied Militaries
General Dynamics Mission Systems won a sole‑source contract valued up to $69.7 million to produce KIV‑78A cryptographic IFF devices through May 5, 2031. The award, made by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, includes Foreign Military Sales to 18 allied countries such...
Sungrow’s Grid-Forming PCS Achieves 19-Second Black Start at ‘World’s First’ 30MW Test Facility
Sungrow demonstrated its Power Titan 3.0 grid‑forming power conversion system achieving system voltage within 19 seconds after a black‑start at its new 30 MW test facility in Hefei, China. The extreme test covered 14 grid‑code scenarios from Europe, Australia and China, with...
OpenAI Introduces MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection): A New Open Networking Protocol for Large-Scale AI Supercomputer Training Clusters
OpenAI unveiled MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), a new open networking protocol designed to eliminate congestion and accelerate failure recovery in massive AI training clusters. Developed with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft and NVIDIA, MRC extends RoCE with SRv6‑based source routing and...
From Data Silos to Smart Operations – What Is the Role of System Integration in IoT?
The article explains that IoT deployments generate massive data streams that often end up in isolated silos, hampering analytics and timely decision‑making. System integration is presented as the bridge that connects sensors, machines, applications, and business systems into a unified...
Deutsche Telekom Made Cloud Jump From Ericsson to Mavenir in 5G
Deutsche Telekom is replacing Ericsson’s 5G packet core with Mavenir’s solution as part of its Horizontal TelCo Cloud (HTC) initiative. The HTC platform consolidates more than 50 core‑network applications onto a common bare‑metal and Kubernetes‑based container‑as‑a‑service (T‑CaaS) layer. By standardising...
Securing Chiplet-Based Platforms: Distributed Trust With Centralized Authority
Chiplet‑based systems break the monolithic security model, requiring a platform‑wide trust framework. The proposed architecture places a Main Security Chiplet (MSC) with a full hardware root of trust at the center, acting as a single policy authority. Subordinate chiplets receive...
Powering AI At Scale: Why 3D-ICs Demand A New Approach To Power Integrity
The semiconductor industry is shifting from transistor scaling to advanced packaging such as 2.5D, 3D‑ICs, and chiplets to meet AI and HPC performance demands. These stacked architectures introduce vertical power paths, dense interconnects, and shared return networks, turning power integrity...
How OCP S.O.L.I.D. Completes The Data Center Security Picture
The Open Compute Project’s Security Appraisal Framework and Enablement (S.A.F.E.) gave the data‑center industry a repeatable audit process in 2023, but it stopped short of prescribing concrete security features. In January 2026 OCP released S.O.L.I.D. v1.0, a device‑specific checklist that defines baseline...
XPS Sleeps on a Fraction of Battery Drain
Panther Lake isn't just super battery efficient when you're using the machine, but also when it's sleeping. My old Framework AMD would consume about 2% of its battery per hour in sleep. My new XPS only sips 0.45%. So 20h...
AMD Shares Surge on AI-Driven Chip Demand
ICYMI - .@AMD’s stock rises on surging demand for CPUs and GPUs for #AI workloads https://t.co/eTvgEPCV58 @SiliconANGLE @Mike_Wheatley “This is proof that innovation in chip design is still the key to accelerating revenue growth, because that’s where...” #Earnings https://t.co/e62KGJzFMq
Beyond the Clinic: A Blueprint For Developing Reliable, Edge AI-Enabled Medical Devices
Edge‑AI‑enabled home ultrasound devices are being piloted to bring diagnostic imaging to remote patients. Pulsenmore, using Synaptics Astra embedded processors, embeds real‑time AI guidance that alerts users on probe placement, speed, and gel usage, producing clinically usable scans in minutes...
Humanoid Touch And Voice Are Improving Rapidly
Humanoid robots are moving beyond factories into homes and consumer spaces, driven by generative AI and advanced sensing. China expects a 94% rise in humanoid output by 2026, while industry leaders project a $25 trillion market opportunity. Touch and voice remain...
Kids' Voice Becomes Stickers via AI Printer
Kids Speak, It Prints: Stickerbox’s #AI Printer Brings Ideas to Life by @ritwikpavan #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation https://t.co/sQ6Vam9QrS
Qualcomm to Soon Launch Data Center Solutions, Eyes Leadership Position: Akash Palkhiwala
Qualcomm announced that it will soon launch a suite of data‑center solutions and begin expanding into robotics, with detailed product reveals slated for upcoming investor meetings. The company highlighted its focus on ultra‑low‑power, high‑performance chips, leveraging multiple 2‑nanometer tape‑outs planned...
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The Hidden Cost of Fragmented IoT Development [Sponsored]
ACRIOS Systems, a Czech IoT specialist, offers a full‑stack development model that eliminates the fragmented approach that typically stalls European connected‑device projects. By owning hardware design, firmware, radio protocols, backend services, and OEM production, the company can deliver prototypes in...
Go-Ahead for Another Giant Data Centre at Redhill
Planners have approved a new 15 MW data centre at Redhill, part of a £200 million ($254 million) investment by Castleforge and Galaxy Data Centers. The expansion adds a two‑storey building with four data halls on the 3.1‑hectare Foxboro Business Park site, bringing...
Soldiers Validate OpenAthena Software & Drones for Enhanced Field Artillery
Theta Informatics demonstrated its OpenAthena software integrated with Skydio X10D drones at Fort Sill, linking real‑time imagery to the Army’s AFATDS fire‑mission system. Soldiers operating as forward observers used passive‑camera sUAS and Silvus Streamcaster radios to detect, geolocate, and label...
On ARP and MAC Aging Timers
Arista’s default network timers—four‑hour ARP timeout and five‑minute MAC aging—trace back to the early days of Ethernet when memory and CPU were scarce. ARP’s long timeout minimized broadcast traffic, while MAC aging kept bridge tables clean to avoid misdirected frames....
Qualcomm Unveils a Pair of Chips: Snapdragon 6, 4 Series to Improve the Features You Actually Use
Qualcomm announced two new mid‑range processors, the Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 5. The 6 Gen 5 delivers a 21% GPU uplift, AI‑enhanced night‑vision camera support and a 20% faster app launch, while the 4 Gen 5 offers a 77% GPU boost that enables 90 fps gaming. Both...
Qualcomm Says Its New Snapdragon Chips Will Have Less Lag on Mid-Range Android Phones
Qualcomm unveiled its new mid‑range chipsets, Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 5, promising significant lag reduction for Android phones. The 6 Gen 5 features a 4+4 core design, Wi‑Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0 and a 21 % more powerful GPU, while the 4 Gen 5 uses a 2+6 layout with a...
Essential Steps to Secure Your IoT Devices
How to Protect #IoT Devices from #CyberSecurity Threats by @antgrasso #InternetOfThings #Infosec #IT #Technology https://t.co/iIDWrpr2Mm
Somewear Labs Introduces Horizon Radio to Advance Long-Range Drone Communications
Somewear Labs unveiled Horizon, a software‑defined radio that blends line‑of‑sight and satellite links to keep unmanned systems connected beyond visual range. The device automatically switches networks when link quality degrades, preserving real‑time command, waypoint updates, and flight‑mode changes. Built for...
An AM Transmitter Upgrade Fit For a King
Sea Mar Community Health Centers, the owner of the Spanish‑language station El Rey 1360 AM in Tacoma, has completed a major technical upgrade by installing a Broadcast Electronics AM‑6A transmitter. The new unit, paired with an AM‑1A backup, replaces the aging equipment and...
Tiny BCI Chip Delivers High‑Bandwidth Wireless Neural Links
Ultra-Compact Brain–Computer Interface Chip Enables High-Bandwidth Wireless Neural Communication by @CUSEAS #MedTech #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #Technology https://t.co/nWSUX4xCRz
Adif Signs for Mermec Track Inspection Railcar for Spain’s Narrow-Gauge Network
Spain’s rail infrastructure manager Adif has awarded MerMec España a €14.1 million (≈$15.5 million) contract for a custom‑designed 80 km/h track inspection railcar for its metre‑gauge network. The vehicle will carry advanced geometry, catenary, dynamics, vision and clearance‑measurement equipment, and will be supported...
Aeva Ships Atlas C-Samples to Daimler Truck NA
Aeva has shipped C‑sample units of its Atlas 4D LiDAR sensor to Daimler Truck North America and Torc Robotics for the autonomous Freightliner Cascadia. The Atlas sensor, built on FMCW technology, can detect objects up to 500 metres and simultaneously capture...
Aeva Nearly Doubles Q1 Revenue to US$6.3m Record
Aeva reported a record first‑quarter revenue of $6.3 million, almost double the $3.4 million earned a year earlier. The company shipped production‑intent 4D LiDAR sensors to Daimler Truck and a top‑10 European passenger‑vehicle OEM, while expanding deployments in defense and industrial sectors....
Diodes Launches 32 Gbps ReDriver for Cockpits
Diodes Incorporated has introduced the PI3EQX32904Q, a four‑channel linear ReDriver delivering 32 Gbps bandwidth for next‑generation automotive smart cockpits. The device supports PCI Express 5.0, SAS4 and CXL, and is built on a 0.13 µm silicon‑germanium BiCMOS process to provide low jitter and high...
Best-Selling Battery Supplier Installs 25,000 Systems in a Month, Says Bigger Still Better After Rebate Changes
Chinese battery maker Fox ESS reported installing 25,000 home storage systems in Australia in April, more than double its March volume and surpassing February’s 12,000 installs. The company continues to champion larger‑capacity units, especially 28 kWh and 42 kWh models, even as...