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Speedata Ltd. announced a partnership with Nebul to integrate its purpose‑built Analytics Processing Unit (APU) into Nebul’s European sovereign cloud. The APU claims up to 100× performance gains over CPUs and GPUs for Apache Spark workloads, cutting server counts and operational costs dramatically. Nebul becomes the first EU‑based AI neocloud to offer this hardware‑accelerated analytics platform, keeping data under European jurisdiction. The deployment targets data‑intensive sectors that need both high performance and strict data‑sovereignty.
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max represent the 2026 flagship duopoly, each championing a distinct design and ecosystem philosophy. Samsung leans on a brighter 3,000‑nit Dynamic AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, a 200 MP camera and...
Credo Technology announced that its 7 nm Toucan PCIe retimer has achieved PCI‑SIG compliance at 32.0 GT/s, meeting PCIe 5.0 speed specifications while being ready for PCIe 6.0 and future 7.0 roadmaps. The compliance validation confirms interoperability, signal integrity, and low‑power operation across standard...
Qualstar and ATTO announced certification of ATTO’s XstreamCORE 8100T Intelligent Bridge with the full Q‑Series tape‑library portfolio, from Q8 to Q1000+. The bridge converts up to four SAS‑connected LTO‑8/9/10 drives into dual 10 Gb Ethernet iSCSI links, letting libraries attach to standard...
Amazon introduced the eero Signal, an add‑on for its eero Wi‑Fi mesh that automatically switches to cellular broadband when the primary internet fails. The 4G‑only device retails for $99.99 and includes six months of service, after which a $99.99 annual...
HFCL Limited has joined a Department of Telecommunications‑funded consortium led by IIT Delhi to develop hollow‑core fiber (HCF) technology for future 6G and quantum communication networks. The partnership leverages HFCL’s manufacturing expertise and IIT Delhi’s research capabilities to accelerate the...
The article describes a two‑rack deployment where each rack relied on a single top‑of‑rack switch, making each rack a lone failure domain. When the ToR in rack 2 became unstable, database replica loss and ARP failures occurred, yet latency and error‑rate...
BeagleBoard’s PocketBeagle 2 Industrial version upgrades the original PocketBeagle 2 Rev A1 with 1 GB DDR4 RAM, a 64 GB eMMC flash and an industrial temperature range of –40 °C to +85 °C. The board retains the Texas Instruments AM6254 quad‑core Cortex‑A53 SoC, the MSPM0L1105 M0+ MCU, USB‑C...
Physicists have shown that chiral phonons in non‑magnetic quartz can directly transfer orbital angular momentum to electrons, creating an orbital Seebeck effect without magnets or charge currents. The breakthrough replaces heavy, scarce magnetic metals with inexpensive, abundant crystals, simplifying orbitronic...
Apple will begin assembling the Mac mini in the United States in 2026, a notable shift for a product that makes up about five percent of global Mac sales. The 2024 redesign introduced the first major update since 2010, pairing...
A Reddit‑based weekly roundup, Last Week in AVP #107, aggregates the most compelling Apple Vision Pro (AVP) news, reviews, and videos into a single, ad‑free page. The edition highlights Apple’s potential immersive Formula 1 demo at the March 4 event, teases the...
Apple’s Mac lineup is experiencing unprecedented demand, pushing US lead times to two‑four weeks, the longest in years. The Mac Studio now has a 27‑day wait, followed by the M4‑powered MacBook Pro at 23 days and the Mac Mini at...
RAD announced the ETX‑2i‑400G, a 400 Gbps Ethernet demarcation and aggregation platform designed for data‑center interconnect and high‑capacity enterprise links. The device targets communications service providers seeking low‑latency, SLA‑driven services that can handle AI‑intensive workloads. It incorporates multiple 400 G QSP‑DD interfaces...
At Mobile World Congress 2026 the five largest European telcos—Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone—demonstrated the first live European Edge Continuum, a federated edge infrastructure spanning their networks. The federation, built on EU‑funded IPCEI‑CIS components, is now operational in...
CATL and Changan have launched the first production vehicle equipped with the Naxtra sodium‑ion battery, delivering 175 Wh kg⁻¹ and a claimed 400 km range. The cell retains more than 90% of its capacity at –40 °C, vastly outperforming conventional LFP packs in sub‑zero...
The open‑source PanVK driver for Arm Mali GPUs received a major update in Mesa 26.1 that reworks its framebuffer abstraction and moves MSAA resolves into a final frame shader. This change yields dramatic performance improvements in the Sascha Willems Vulkan multisampling...
Iowa's House Agriculture Committee advanced HSB 751, a Right‑to‑Repair bill targeting John Deere, with an 18‑5 vote. The legislation would require the manufacturer to provide farmers with the same diagnostic tools, software and parts that dealers use. Iowa accounts for roughly...
GyroidOS, an open‑source multi‑architecture OS‑level virtualization platform maintained by Fraunhofer AISEC, isolates guest operating‑system stacks on a single Linux kernel using namespaces, cgroups and capabilities. The solution targets embedded devices and integrates hardware‑root‑of‑trust features such as secure boot, TPM‑linked disk...
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated hair‑thin microLEDs that outperform conventional designs in efficiency, output power, and beam control. By enclosing the InGaN/GaN emitting region with distributed Bragg reflectors, the devices deliver 20% more air‑side light, over 130% more...
HP’s Omen Max 16 launches with three GPU options—RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090—and two CPU choices, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375. Priced from $2,099, the Intel‑based RTX 5080 configuration garners the most praise for its OLED 2.5K 240 Hz display and effective Tempest...
Thermal Grizzly’s WireView Pro II is a hardware‑level GPU monitoring device that sits between the graphics card and a 12VHPWR or 12V‑2×6 power cable. It provides per‑pin current data on a 320 × 170 TFT‑IPS colour screen and streams the information to the...
The article traces four decades of hardware‑assisted verification (HAV) from its roots in 1980s in‑circuit emulation to today’s AI‑driven full‑stack validation platforms. Early emulators struggled with reliability but proved that pure software simulation could not keep pace with growing chip...
Peplink is launching the Pepwave 5G Dongle, a compact USB‑C modem that delivers Ethernet‑over‑USB 5G connectivity for its routers and laptops. Built on a Qualcomm X62 chipset, the device supports dual physical nano‑SIM slots, dual eSIMs and a wide range of sub‑6 GHz 5G/LTE...
Creality has launched the CFS‑C filament swapper, marketed as a “no‑purge” solution for its K1 series desktop FFF printers. By relocating the filament‑cutting operation from the hot end to the swapper, the system eliminates the traditional purge cycle, cutting change‑over...
MIT engineers have unveiled a multi‑material 3D printer capable of fabricating a fully functional electric linear motor in a single print job. The system integrates four distinct extruders that handle conductive, magnetic, and standard plastic materials, allowing the motor to...
Easy‑Logic Technology Ltd. has commercialized EasylogicECO, an automated functional Engineering Change Order (ECO) engine that generates minimal logic patches from RTL or specification updates. The tool leverages formal equivalence and optimization algorithms to preserve timing closure, layout integrity, and DFT...
Cadence announced the completion of its €2.7 billion acquisition of Hexagon’s Design and Engineering business, integrating MSC Software’s Nastran and Adams tools into its multiphysics portfolio. The deal, financed with 70% cash and 30% Cadence stock, expands Cadence’s System Design and...
The AMDGPU/AMDKFD open‑source driver stack has crossed the six‑million line threshold in the Linux 7.0 kernel, up from four million lines just four years ago. It now accounts for roughly 15% of the entire kernel codebase, making it the single largest...
Apple’s 2026 Mac Studio launches with M5 Max and M5 Ultra processors, the latter built by fusing two M5 Max chips via Ultra Fusion. The desktop offers up to 128 GB of RAM, faster SSD options, and Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, while pairing...
Intel’s open‑source ANV Vulkan driver received a batch of H.265 encode fixes merged into the Mesa 26.1‑devel branch. The changes, contributed by Igalia engineer Hyunjun Ko, add dynamic transform‑skip handling, respect application‑provided QP values, correctly process GPB frames, and clean up unsupported...
Kados unveiled the Mind Pro mini‑PC paired with the Mine Graphics 2 eGPU dock, leveraging its proprietary Mind Link PCIe 5.0 X4 interface. The dock houses an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti with 16 GB GDDR7B and a built‑in 350 W power supply, delivering desktop‑class graphics in a...
Researchers have built a free‑space nanophotonic diffractive network that executes morphological image operations—dilation, erosion, opening, and closing—directly on the optical wavefront. By encoding structuring elements into engineered phase layers, the system transforms incoming light in a single pass, achieving latencies...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers published a comprehensive review in Chemical Reviews describing how advanced, physics‑based simulation can decode the complex relationships among processing, structure, and performance of single‑crystal battery materials. By spanning atomistic to cell‑level scales, the multiscale models...
Week 8 highlighted several strategic moves in the data‑storage and AI hardware market. IBM launched an autonomous storage portfolio—FlashSystem 5600, 7600, 9600—powered by agentic AI, while AMD and TCS announced a 200 MW Helios rack‑scale AI deployment in India. Financially, AMD posted a 34 % YoY...
Astera Labs announced the acquisition of Pliops, paving the way for its first research and development center in Israel. The move, confirmed by former Pliops CRO Marius Tudor, expands Astera’s global footprint and aligns with its strategy to accelerate AI‑connectivity...
Crusoe unveiled Command Center, a unified operations platform that consolidates GPU telemetry, logging, and orchestration for high‑performance AI workloads. The solution offers out‑of‑the‑box metrics, custom metric ingestion, and topology‑aware views, while integrating tightly with Crusoe Managed Kubernetes, Slurm, and AutoClusters....
Micrologic, a Canadian sovereign‑cloud provider, has teamed with AI‑driven data‑security firm Cohesity to launch a fully Canadian‑jurisdictional data‑protection platform. The joint solution combines Micrologic’s Canada‑only cloud infrastructure with Cohesity’s backup, disaster‑recovery and isolated recovery environment technology. It promises recovery speeds...
Ax3.ai appointed Marius Tudor as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global go‑to‑market strategy. Tudor brings more than 25 years of technical sales experience in infrastructure and hardware. He will expand direct sales channels, strengthen the partner ecosystem, and target...
Lam Research inaugurated a new 9,200‑sq‑ft office in Boise, Idaho, staffed initially by about 150 employees focused on research, development and high‑volume manufacturing for Micron’s memory technology. The facility underscores Lam’s multi‑year strategy to expand U.S. operations and accelerate chip...
Reticulum is an open‑source, decentralized networking protocol that operates without traditional internet infrastructure. It uses cryptographic identity‑based addressing and built‑in encryption to secure traffic across any medium, from LoRa radios to Wi‑Fi and Ethernet. Its hardware‑agnostic design lets users build...
Korean researchers at KAIST and Hanyang University have created a metamaterial‑based nanophotonic color router that retains about 78 % optical efficiency across a ±12‑degree angle of incidence. The device separates red, green, and blue light directly on the sensor, addressing the...
Decathlon has introduced a new Peach Orange colourway for its Rockrider E‑ACTV 500 hybrid e‑bike, now available in France, the Netherlands and Spain. The bike retains its €1,999.99 price point, while older colour options in Spain have been discounted to €1,799.99....
Red Hat has released Tuned 2.27, the latest version of its open‑source tuning framework for Linux. The update adds CPU partitioning autodetection, a systemd workaround, and enables CPU boost in performance profiles. It also introduces OpenShift‑specific TCP optimizations, forces SAP HANA latency...
NXP and Silex Technology have released the SX‑SDMAX6E module, embedding the IW623 tri‑band Wi‑Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.x radios for industrial IoT. The module ships in a 44‑pin LGA package and an M.2 2230 Key‑E card, supporting SDIO for Wi‑Fi and UART for Bluetooth....
In 2012 the UberCloud team launched a public call for engineers to test real‑world simulations on remote HPC resources, sparking a decade‑long series of cloud‑based experiments. Early case studies showed modest success rates, but the 2015 introduction of purpose‑built HPC...
AMD unveiled the VEK385 evaluation kit built around the Versal AI Edge Gen 2 XC2VE3858 SoC FPGA. The board combines eight Cortex‑A78AE cores, ten Cortex‑R52 cores, a Mali‑G78AE GPU, 144 AI Engine‑ML v2 tiles delivering up to 184 INT8 TOPS, and 20 GB...
WINSYSTEMS introduced the SBC‑ZETA‑3950, a rugged mini single‑board computer built around Intel’s Atom Apollo Lake E3950 quad‑core processor. Housed in an 84 × 55 mm carrier, it delivers 1.6 GHz base speed (up to 2.0 GHz burst) within a 12 W power envelope and includes 8 GB...
ASRock Industrial unveiled the NUC Ultra 300 Box series, a new line of compact mini PCs built on Intel’s Core Ultra 300 platform. The lineup offers two processor options – the Core Ultra 5 325 and the higher‑end Core Ultra X7 358H – delivering up to 16 cores and...
Europe’s smartphone market posted modest 2% Q4 growth in 2025, driven by strong premium demand. Apple’s iPhone 17 launch lifted its share to 33%, overtaking Samsung, which held 29%. Honor posted an 18% rise in the mid‑range segment, while Xiaomi slipped...
NVIDIA unveiled the Blackwell Ultra GB300 NVL72 rack, targeting long‑context inference for agentic AI models. Benchmarks show a 1.4‑1.5× performance uplift over the GB200, with a peak throughput of 226.2 tokens per second and latency gains of roughly 1.58×. The gains...
