Intel Prepares Wireless Mode Support For QAT Gen6 Hardware
Intel is adding a dedicated wireless mode to its upcoming QuickAssist Technology (QAT) Gen6 accelerators, with support slated for the Linux 7.1 kernel. The new mode activates via a specific fuse bit and loads a separate firmware binary that handles advanced wireless cryptography such as ZUC‑256 and 5G algorithms. Existing QAT Gen5 already accelerates wireless ciphers; Gen6 expands this with extended algorithm chaining and broader standards coverage. The changes are queued in the cryptodev Git branch ahead of the April merge window.
RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026
The open‑source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver recently received patches that resolve a long‑standing rendering problem for EDuke32 and its derivatives on AMD RDNA4 GPUs such as the RX 9070 XT. The issue stemmed from the engine allocating extremely large textures, which broke OpenGL...
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Vs. Fold 8 Wide: Which New Shape Should You Buy?
Samsung unveiled two new foldables for 2026: the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide. The Ultra targets premium users with an 8.0‑inch internal screen, triple‑camera system, 5,000 mAh battery and a $1,999 price tag. The Wide trims...
Jetway F35-ARU1 Combines Core Ultra SoC in 3.5-inch Form Factor
Jetway unveiled the F35‑ARU1, a 3.5‑inch sub‑compact motherboard built around Intel Core Ultra 5 225U and Core Ultra 7 255U processors. Both CPUs run at a 15 W TDP and include integrated graphics, an AI‑focused NPU, and support for DDR5‑6400 memory up to 128 GB. The...
Why Your Next Smart Home Upgrade Should Be a 9-Axis Sensor
Aqara introduced the Multistate Sensor P100, a single‑body device that uses a 9‑axis sensor suite (accelerometer, gyroscope, geomagnetic) to detect motion, tilt, vibration and rotation. By consolidating functions traditionally handled by separate contact, vibration and motion sensors, the P100 can...
Sony Suspends Sales of Memory Cards
Sony announced an indefinite suspension of sales for its low‑end memory cards, including SDXC, SDHC and Compact Flash Type A and B models. The halt is driven by a severe shortage of NAND flash and SSD components, a bottleneck intensified...
DJI Pocket 4 Arriving April 2026: Pricing, Specs & Key Features
DJI will unveil the Pocket 4 on April 20, 2026, pricing the base model between $499 and $599 and the Creator Combo at $649‑$749. The camera retains a 1‑inch sensor while adding 4K video at 120 fps and rumored 6K capability, alongside upgraded stabilization...
The GaN Charger That Wants to Kill Your Travel Power Strip
The UGREEN Nexode 100 W GaN charger packs three USB‑C and one USB‑A port into a 2.7 × 2.7 × 1.3‑inch wall adapter, delivering up to 100 W (5 A) on a single USB‑C connection. Its GaN‑based power conversion keeps the unit compact and cool, while dynamic...
Meta Financia Sete Centrais De Gás Natural Para Alimentar O Seu Maior Centro De Dados
Meta will fund the construction of seven new natural‑gas power plants delivering over 5,200 MW to supply its largest planned data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana. The facility will span roughly four million square feet and is dedicated to powering massive...
Lithium Tantalate Stabilises Light-Based Chips for Faster Computing
Researchers at Sun Yat‑sen University and partner institutions have built an integrated optical phased array (OPA) from lithium tantalate that eliminates the phase‑drift problem plaguing ferroelectric photonic integrated circuits. The device keeps its far‑field main lobe 8 dB above side lobes...
These Bluetooth Label Makers Don’t Need Ink or a Computer
NIIMBOT introduced two Bluetooth‑enabled label makers, the D110 and D11, priced at $29.99 each and sold on Amazon. Both devices use direct‑thermal printing, eliminating ink, toner or cartridges, and rely on a smartphone app for design, batch printing and Bluetooth...
Valve’s $800 Steam Machine Could Now Cost Over $1,200
Valve’s Steam Machine, originally priced between $800 and $1,000, is now facing component cost spikes driven by AI demand. Prices for DDR5 RAM have tripled and GPUs and high‑capacity SSDs are also surging, pushing projected retail prices above $1,200. Supply‑chain...
GSME, Tarana Wireless Partner to Transform Wireless Connectivity
GS Microelectronics U.S., Inc. (GSME) has entered a strategic partnership with Tarana Wireless to provide dedicated RF‑Analog engineering support for Tarana’s transceiver portfolio and future road‑map. The collaboration will accelerate product optimization, validation and new releases, especially for Tarana’s Fixed Wireless Access solutions...
Linux for Smartphones: Ubuntu Touch Makes the Volla Phone Quintus a Rare Alternative in the Mass Market
The Volla Phone Quintus now ships with Ubuntu Touch as a factory‑installed option, priced at roughly $785. It combines a 6.78‑inch 120 Hz AMOLED panel, MediaTek Dimensity 7050 chipset, 8 GB RAM, and 256 GB storage with full 5G, Wi‑Fi 6 and a 4700 mAh battery....
Lenovo Legion Go Fold: From Leak to Concept – Foldable Handheld with Lunar Lake Shows Where Mobile PC Devices Might...
Lenovo unveiled the Legion Go Fold concept at MWC 2026, showcasing a foldable POLED display that expands from 7.7 inches closed to 11.6 inches opened. The prototype runs on an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V Lunar Lake processor, Intel Arc 140V graphics, 32 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, a 1 TB PCIe Gen4 SSD...
PLCnext ROS Bridge: Enabling Hardware Interoperability Between Industrial PLCs and ROS
The PLCnext ROS Bridge introduces a Docker‑based ROS node that directly links the PLCnext Global Data Space with ROS topics and services, enabling bidirectional data exchange between industrial PLCs and robotic software. It leverages an Interface Description File to auto‑generate...
DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel
Developers at LINBIT are synchronizing the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) driver with the Linux kernel after roughly 15 years of divergence. They have staged a patch series of about 7,260 lines of code to bring the out‑of‑tree implementation up...
Microsoft Announces Opening of New Datacenter Region in Denmark
Microsoft opened the Denmark East datacenter region, with sites in Høje Taastrup, Køge and Roskilde, delivering low‑latency, secure cloud services and a strong sustainability focus. Over the next four years Microsoft and its partners will invest roughly $4.5 billion, creating up...
All-Optical Neuron Breaks the Nanosecond Barrier Using Tellurium Phase Transition
Researchers have demonstrated an all‑optical neuron built from a thin tellurium film that melts in under 260 picoseconds, breaking the nanosecond barrier for photonic activation. The device operates with threshold energies as low as 0.4 picojoules and occupies less than 5 µm², enabling...
Mitsubishi, Rohm, Toshiba To Merge Power Semi Businesses
Mitsubishi Electric, Rohm and Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage have signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan Industrial Partners and TBJ Holdings to explore merging their power‑semiconductor businesses. The proposed joint venture would combine silicon, gallium‑nitride (GaN) and silicon‑carbide (SiC)...
Total AI Chip Memory Bandwidth Has Grown 4.1x per Year, Now Reaching 70 Million TB/S
AI chip memory bandwidth has accelerated to 70 million terabytes per second, representing a 4.1× annual growth since 2022. This capacity dwarfs global internet traffic by a factor of roughly 300,000, highlighting the massive data movement required for modern inference. The...
Bridge Device Enables Live AI Phone Captions for Deaf Workers
Mezmo Technologies unveiled Bridge, a plug‑and‑play device that adds AI‑driven, real‑time captioning to standard desk phones and computers. The box streams captions to an iPhone or iPad and can route audio to Bluetooth hearing aids while preserving full call controls....
Premium: Catching up to Samsara
Samsara reported Q4 2026 results showing a rebound in annual recurring revenue, adding a record $145 million net new ARR and an 8.3% sequential growth rate. Emerging product lines now represent 23% of net new ACV, expanding the company’s data moat...
HLRS Future Computing Group Holds 1st Annual Workshop
The High‑Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) hosted its inaugural Future Computing Workshop on March 16‑17, 2026, bringing together more than 65 hardware vendors, researchers, and HPC center operators. Attendees examined emerging paradigms such as quantum, neuromorphic and specialized accelerators, alongside...
SEMI Europe Applauds European Commission’s Implementation Dialogue on Chips Act 2.0
SEMI Europe participated in the European Commission’s Implementation Dialogue on the Chips Act, supporting the upcoming revision known as Chips Act 2.0. The association highlighted its Chips Act Report, which contains 30 recommendations covering regulatory simplification, faster permitting, targeted investment,...
MiniMed Unveils MiniMed Flex, Its Smallest Insulin Pump Yet
MiniMed secured FDA clearance for the MiniMed Flex, its smallest insulin pump yet, featuring a fully smartphone‑controlled, screenless design. The pocket‑sized device is roughly half the size of the 780G and holds a 300‑unit insulin reservoir while integrating continuous glucose...
Which Foundries Are Making Which AI Chips?
Jon Peddie Research tracks 133 active AI processor suppliers, with major players like Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Google and a host of startups operating fabless. Nvidia’s newest Rubin GPU is manufactured by TSMC using its N3P process, while its Groq 3...
Gigabyte BRIX Mini PC with AMD Ryzen AI 400 “Gorgon Point” Coming Soon
Gigabyte announced the upcoming BRIX GB‑BRR7‑450 mini PC, powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI 400 “Gorgon Point” processor. The compact device measures 119 × 113 × 34 mm and supports up to 96 GB of DDR5‑5600 memory, dual M.2 slots (PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 4.0), and a range of...
‘Can’t Innovate Anymore, My Ass’
Apple’s Mac Pro celebrates two decades of evolution, from its 2006 Intel‑Xeon launch to the 2019 modular redesign and the recent M2 Ultra‑powered models. The original “cheese‑grater” chassis set a benchmark for workstation performance, while the 2013 cylindrical version sparked...
Xanadu Becomes 1st Pure-Play Photonic Quantum Computing Company to Go Public
Xanadu Quantum Technologies went public on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange, raising $302 million in gross IPO proceeds. The listing also unlocks up to $288 million in Canadian federal and provincial funding and an additional $17 million from the Canadian Quantum Champions...
The World’s First Eye-Tracking Smart Glasses Are Here : Fully Tested
Smart eyewear company launched Maverick AI and AI Pro glasses, the first consumer devices with built‑in eye‑tracking. Weighing 47 grams and priced at $359 for the AI Pro model, they feature a full‑color in‑lens display, a 28° field of view, and...
Scale Your AI Ambitions with Dell Storage and Nvidia
At Nvidia GTC 2026 Dell unveiled two AI‑focused storage innovations: the globally‑available Dell Lightning File System and a preview of Dell Exascale Storage. Lightning FS is billed as the world’s fastest parallel file system, delivering up to 6 TB/s read throughput...
IOS 26.4 + Firmware 8B39: The Update That Finally Fixes AirPods Pro Connection Lag
Apple has released AirPods Pro firmware version 8B39, unifying the software across AirPods Pro 2 (USB‑C and Lightning), AirPods Pro 3, and AirPods 4 while leaving the original Pro 1 on its legacy code. The update resolves several bugs for Pro 2 users, including faster...
The Meaning of Asset Intelligence in the Age of AI
The article introduces "Asset Intelligence" as a shift from raw building data to shared meaning, enabling questions like “Why is this room too hot?” to be answered accurately. It highlights the Semantic Bridge—a knowledge‑graph layer that links physical spaces, systems,...
Linux Patches Posted To Fix ~2x Performance Drop For CPU Workloads On NVIDIA Vera Rubin
NVIDIA engineers identified a severe performance regression on the upcoming Vera Rubin CPUs, where enabling Simultaneous Multi‑Threading (SMT) caused up to a two‑fold slowdown for CPU‑intensive workloads. To address this, Linux kernel developer Andrea Righi submitted a patch series that...
AI Glasses Are Catching on in China, From Shopping to Cheating
AI‑powered smart glasses are moving beyond novelty in China, with domestic players such as Xiaomi, Alibaba and Li Auto launching models priced $270‑$1,000. In 2025 the market shipped 2.5 million units, representing 16.7 % of global volume, and the government added a...
AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP
AMD has released a batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver patches targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 release. The updates introduce a new DebugFS interface for 64‑bit PCIe registers, add support for the SMU 15.0.8 IP block, and bring a series of...
SparkFun Thing Plus – ESP32-C5 Board Offers Dual-Band WiFi 6, Adafruit Feather Pinout, LiPo Battery Support
SparkFun has released the Thing Plus – ESP32‑C5, a Feather‑compatible development board built around Espressif’s dual‑band Wi‑Fi 6 ESP32‑C5 SoC. The board ships with the stable ESP‑IDF v6.0 SDK, OTA‑capable safe bootloader, and comes pre‑loaded with MicroPython while also supporting Arduino IDE....
EDC Flashlight: The Small Light That Handles Big Messes
The Rodman ED08 is a coin‑sized, titanium‑built EDC flashlight that offers five LED colors, magnetic mounting, and a 105° adjustable stand. It delivers up to 300 lumens, is IP68‑rated, and charges via USB‑C, providing up to 26 hours of low‑mode runtime. Priced...
The Intel Core Ultra 3 205 Appears on PassMark for the First Time, Raising New Questions About Intel’s Entry-Level Strategy
Intel's Core Ultra 3 205, an Arrow Lake‑S entry‑level CPU, has finally appeared on PassMark with a 26,244 overall score and a 4,586 single‑thread rating. The chip features an 8‑core 4P/4E hybrid architecture, 4.9 GHz turbo, 15 MB cache and integrated Xe graphics, but...
ASUS X870 BIOS References to “Future CPU Support” Are Once Again Fueling Speculation About Upcoming AMD Desktop CPUs
ASUS has posted beta BIOS updates for its X870, B850, X670 and B650 motherboards that include a vague "Future CPU Support" note, sparking renewed speculation about a new AMD desktop processor line. Official ASUS support pages, however, only reference AGESA...
Microchip SAM9X75 Hybrid Automotive MCU – Surprisingly ARM9 Is Still a Thing in 2026
Microchip has introduced the SAM9X75 Hybrid automotive MCU, a System‑in‑Package that retains the classic ARM926EJ‑S core running up to 800 MHz while integrating up to 2 Gbit DDR3L memory and a rich set of peripherals. The device is automotive‑qualified (AEC‑Q100 Grade 2) and...
Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro ↦
Apple confirmed the discontinuation of the Mac Pro, removing its product page and redirecting visitors to the general Mac homepage. The company also stated it has no plans to release future Mac Pro hardware. The decision follows a shift toward...
ETA Prime Answers the Question: What if the MacBook Neo Had Thermo-Electric Cooling?
The MacBook Neo, a low‑cost laptop powered by Apple’s A18 Pro, suffers from rapid thermal throttling because it lacks active cooling. ETA Prime first applied a copper plate and thermal pad to move heat to the aluminum chassis, which already...
8 Key Features to Look for in a Sublimation Printer
The article outlines eight essential features to evaluate when selecting a sublimation printer, from print resolution and speed to ink compatibility, connectivity, and maintenance. High dots‑per‑inch output delivers sharper graphics, while faster machines meet tight production deadlines. Versatile ink support...
ICC Launches Aquarius R-117A Immersion-Native 1U Server with 6 NVIDIA H200 GPUs
ICC unveiled the Aquarius R-117A, an immersion‑native 1U server that packs six NVIDIA H200 SXM GPUs and a single‑socket AMD EPYC Turin processor with up to 192 cores and 3 TB DDR5 RAM. The system delivers 846 GB of combined GPU memory...
Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA Is Cheaper Than a Respin — and Why It Matters in the Intel 18A Era
As semiconductor nodes become ever more complex, the financial risk of ASIC respins has surged, with mask sets at Intel’s 18A process costing tens of millions of dollars. Embedded FPGA (eFPGA) offers "silicon insurance" by embedding reconfigurable logic that can...
Vision Pro and Cosm: Two of a Kind?
Apple’s Vision Pro delivers impressive hardware and natural displays, yet it lacks the daily content cadence needed to become a habit‑forming device. The article points to Cosm, a high‑end immersive venue where fans pay for shared sports experiences, as proof...
Scoop: Meta Gets Ready to Launch Two New Ray-Ban AI Glasses
Meta and its hardware partner EssilorLuxottica are preparing to launch two new Ray‑Ban AI glasses, as indicated by recent FCC filings that list the devices as production‑ready units. The filings suggest the models are close to market, echoing the rapid...
Transistor-Inspired Triboelectric Nanogenerator Powers Human-Machine Interfaces without Batteries
Researchers at Chonnam National University unveiled an air‑breakdown triboelectric nanogenerator (AB‑TENG) that harvests static electricity from human skin to power ultrathin input devices without batteries. The device delivers up to 290 V and 22 mW at a modest 24 N contact force, outperforming...