Rambus Introduces PCIe 7.0 Switch IP with Time Division Multiplexing for Scalable AI and Data Center Infrastructure
Rambus announced a PCIe 7.0 Switch IP that incorporates time‑division multiplexing (TDM) to address the bandwidth and latency challenges of next‑generation AI and data‑center system‑on‑chips. The new switch enables flexible traffic scheduling across shared PCIe links, improving fabric utilization for large‑scale training, inference, and high‑speed storage. It joins Rambus’ existing PCIe 7.0 portfolio of controllers, retimers and debug solutions, offering a unified IP suite for AI‑focused ASIC designs. The technology promises deterministic performance while reducing the need for additional physical lanes.
Samsung’s Shocking Galaxy S27 Ultra Leak: Is Losing a Camera Lens Actually a Good Thing?
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S27 Ultra is rumored to shift focus from flashy specs to refined, user‑centric features. The flagship will house a 200 MP main sensor, 50 MP ultra‑wide and telephoto lenses, and a variable aperture that adapts to lighting conditions, while...
Don’t Wait Until 2027: Why the Standard iPhone 18 Is Shaping Up to Be a Major Letdown
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 line is rumored to lean on shared components with the budget‑focused iPhone 18e, potentially blurring the distinction between tiers. Industry leaks suggest the standard model could see a less bright OLED panel and no meaningful upgrade over the...
Smart Glasses for the Authorities
ICE is preparing to field AI‑enhanced smart glasses that can pull facial‑recognition, gait and other biometric data from federal databases in real time. The devices are modeled on counter‑terrorism tools such as ABIS and BEWL, extending them to routine street...
Khadas Mind Graphics 2 and Mind xPlay Display + Keyboard Review – Part 1: Unboxing, Teardown, and First Try
Khadas unveiled its Mind Graphics 2 eGPU dock and Mind xPlay portable display with magnetic keyboard, tested alongside the Mind 2 mini PC. The Graphics 2 dock packs an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB GPU, a 350 W GaN power supply, 2.5 GbE networking, and supports...
LLM System Design Interview #44 - The Bandwidth-Precision Trap
In a DeepMind senior AI engineer interview, candidates are asked why casting an entire model to Float16 causes immediate loss divergence and NaNs. The trap highlights a common mistake: using low‑precision arithmetic for both inputs and accumulations, which leads to...
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...
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....
DDR6 Moves Into Early Development: Memory Manufacturers Apparently Target 2028 to 2029
Samsung, SK hynix and Micron have asked substrate partners to start early DDR6 development, moving the next DRAM generation from roadmap to pre‑production. The industry targets a 2028‑2029 commercialization window, with the first modules aimed at server and AI workloads rather...
Extreme Networks Deploys Wi‑Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be) at University of Florida’s “Swamp”
Extreme Networks has rolled out the first Wi‑Fi 7 network in a U.S. college stadium, deploying the technology at the University of Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (“The Swamp”). The system is engineered for up to 90,000 concurrent users, leveraging Multi‑Link...
TotalEnergies Selects Dell and NVIDIA for Pangea 5 Supercomputer in France
TotalEnergies has contracted Dell Technologies and NVIDIA to build Pangea 5, a new high‑performance supercomputer in Pau, France. The system will increase the company’s computing power sixfold, backed by an investment of over €100 million (≈ $110 million). Pangea 5 promises a 40% reduction in...
PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/S Bi-Directional X16 Bandwidth
The PCI‑SIG released draft version 0.5 of the PCIe 8.0 specification, which doubles the x16 bi‑directional bandwidth to 1 TB/s (256 GT/s). PCIe 8.0 retains PAM4 signaling and aims for backward compatibility while exploring new connector designs. The draft also introduces power‑reduction techniques. This...
Canadian Government To Spin-Off III-V Foundry Unit
The Canadian government is preparing to spin off the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Center (CPFC) into a stand‑alone commercial entity. CPFC, the nation’s only pure‑play III‑V compound semiconductor foundry, operates a 40,000‑square‑foot facility with an additional 8,000 square feet of clean‑room...
Anthropic Taking Over All Capacity of xAl’s First Memphis Data Center
Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to occupy the entire Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, giving it access to over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and more than 300 MW of power. The partnership instantly raises usage limits for Claude Pro and...
The "Large Format & Optics" Glossary
The article provides a comprehensive glossary of large‑format and optics terminology, covering sensor standards, lens physics, mount types, and on‑set workflow concepts. It outlines a tiered camera list, from "Titan" class 65mm‑plus systems like the ARRI Alexa 265 to full‑frame...
Q-CTRL Claims 3,000x Quantum Speedup for Materials Science Simulations on IBM Quantum Platform
Q-CTRL announced a 3,000‑fold speedup on a materials‑science simulation using the IBM Quantum Platform, completing a 120‑qubit electron‑interaction problem in two minutes versus over 100 hours on the best classical software. The result constitutes the first practical quantum advantage on...
Computer Architecture in an AI-Accelerated World with Jim Ledin
Jim Ledin, CEO of Ledin Engineering, released the third edition of his book Modern Computer Architecture and Organization, adding extensive coverage of AI‑centric hardware. He argues that the prevailing GPU‑only view of AI acceleration is incomplete, highlighting the rise of TPUs,...
University of Southern Denmark, Danfoss and HPE Launch National AI Supercomputer ‘Bitten’
The University of Southern Denmark, together with Danfoss and HPE, has launched "Bitten," a national AI supercomputer that will serve all Danish universities via the UCloud research platform. The system features advanced liquid‑cooling and full heat‑recovery, feeding waste heat into...
ICYMI – Microsoft Definitely Never Said You Want 32GB Of RAM To Run Win11
Microsoft quietly removed a blog post that suggested 32 GB of RAM as a “no‑worries” upgrade for Windows 11 gaming, a claim that conflicted with the OS’s official minimum of 4 GB and preferred 8 GB. The deletion followed a wave of backlash from...
Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows
The Linux 7.2 kernel will incorporate a new AMDGPU Display Core (DC) power module that mirrors the power‑management behavior of Windows. The module focuses on backlight control and Panel Self Refresh, aiming for a unified experience across operating systems. Alongside...
AMD Highlights Instinct MI430X GPU, Future HPC Systems at HPC User Forum
At the HPC User Forum in Austin, AMD unveiled its Instinct MI430X GPU, promising more than 200 teraflops of native FP64 performance—roughly six times the upcoming NVIDIA Rubin chip. The company highlighted the MI430X as a dual‑purpose accelerator for high‑precision...
Upset About the DJI Drone Ban in the US? Here’s How You Can Speak Out Today
The FCC placed DJI on its Covered List, effectively banning the sale of new DJI drones—including the flagship Mavic 4 Pro—in the United States. DJI has announced an appeal slated for February 2026 and is urging U.S. drone operators to submit comments through...
LOOP 3D Teases Production-Focused Upgrade
LOOP 3D unveiled the LOOP PRO X+ TURBO Gen2, a production‑focused upgrade to its large‑format FFF printer. The Gen2 promises high‑speed, batch manufacturing of fibre‑reinforced parts, citing a drone body printed in just 30 minutes. It retains the 500 × 350 × 500 mm build...
INCITE Program Awards Supercomputing Time to 77 High-Impact Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science has allocated 60% of its leadership‑class supercomputing capacity to 77 high‑impact research projects for 2026 through the INCITE program. The awards cover the exascale Frontier system at Oak Ridge, the Aurora AI‑focused...
Nouveau Vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance
Phoronix benchmarked the open‑source Nouveau driver stack against NVIDIA’s proprietary R595 driver on an HP Z6 G5 A workstation equipped with an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max‑Q GPU. Using Linux 7.0, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Mesa 26.2‑devel and the NVIDIA 595.58.03 driver, the tests focused on workstation compute and...
546 Two-Qubit Gates Enable Reliable Molecular Energy Calculation
Quantinuum researchers chained 546 two‑qubit gates in a single trapped‑ion computation, integrating Steane quantum error‑correction gadgets directly into quantum phase‑estimation circuits. The approach yielded a ground‑state energy estimate for molecular hydrogen within 13 hartree of the exact value, demonstrating a...
Twisting Atom Thin Materials Reveals New Way to Save Computing Energy
A KTH-led study published in Nano Letters shows that twisting two atom‑thin van der Waals antiferromagnet layers creates strong altermagnetic magnons, enabling magnetic‑based information transfer without electric currents or external magnetic fields. The approach leverages twist engineering to alter crystal...
Top Quantum Hardware Companies 2026 By Modality
The 2026 quantum‑hardware landscape is organized around six modalities, each dominated by a handful of commercial vendors. Superconducting platforms, led by IBM’s 1,121‑qubit system, hold the highest qubit counts, while trapped‑ion firms such as Quantinuum deliver the best gate fidelities...
New Wi-Fi 7 Network Installed at University of Florida Stadium
Extreme Networks has installed the United States' first collegiate stadium Wi‑Fi 7 network at the University of Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The system delivers ultra‑fast gigabit speeds, sub‑10‑millisecond latency, and the capacity to handle tens of thousands of simultaneous connections. Coverage spans...
Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service
Dell and Lenovo have become the first premier sponsors of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), each contributing $100,000 annually. The LVFS, which powers firmware updates on Linux via the fwupd client, recently celebrated more than 145 million updates shipped. Their...
The Material Problem Hiding in Plain Sight: Why RFID Credential Substrates Matter More Than Ever
The hospitality industry is moving away from PVC RFID key cards as EU plastics rules and ESG reporting make the 520,000‑ton annual waste stream a reportable liability. Hotels are adopting wood‑based and hybrid substrates that meet ISO/IEC 7810 dimensions, maintain RF...
OCP EMEA Summit 2026: Castrol ON Advances Liquid Cooling Strategy with OCP Inspired Portfolio
Castrol ON announced that its PG 25 direct liquid‑cooling fluid has earned OCP Inspired certification and will be listed in the Open Compute Project Marketplace, with DC 15 and DC 20 immersion fluids slated to follow. The inclusion makes Castrol ON’s liquid‑cooling suite among the...
JEDEC Previews LPDDR6 Roadmap Expanding LPDDR Into Data Centers and Processing-in-Memory
JEDEC unveiled its next‑generation LPDDR6 roadmap, aiming to push memory density to 512 GB per die and extend the technology beyond smartphones into data‑center and accelerated‑computing workloads. The upcoming standard will introduce a narrower x6 sub‑channel interface, flexible metadata carve‑outs, and...
LLM System Design Interview #43 - The Kernel Masking Trick
During an OpenAI senior AI systems engineer interview, candidates are asked why adding a simple if/else inside a CUDA kernel can double execution time. The real cause is warp divergence: GPUs execute threads in 32‑thread warps that must follow the...
Drones Over the Pitch: How Counter-UAS Technology and 3D Printing Are Securing the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Sentrycs, a subsidiary of Ondas Holdings, secured multiple multi‑million‑dollar contracts with federal, state and local agencies to deploy counter‑UAS systems at most of the 2026 FIFA World Cup venues across the United States, Canada and Mexico. The tournament, the largest...
Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips
Two independent research teams have demonstrated rowhammer attacks that exploit GDDR6 memory on NVIDIA Ampere GPUs, such as the RTX 3060, RTX 6000, and RTX A6000. By inducing bit flips in GPU memory, the attacks can corrupt page‑table structures and...
Shepherd Model Gateway Cuts GPU Idle Time With Rust
The LightSeek Foundation unveiled Shepherd Model Gateway (SMG), a Rust‑based service layer that offloads all CPU‑bound tasks—tokenization, detokenization, and multimodal preprocessing—from Python‑driven LLM serving pipelines. By replacing the Python Global Interpreter Lock bottleneck with a native gRPC data plane, SMG...
VIAVI Unveils CyberFlood CF1000 Appliance for Validation of Multi-Terabit Security
VIAVI Solutions introduced the CyberFlood CF1000, a 2‑RU appliance that delivers native 400 G security and application performance testing up to 1.2 Tbps. The platform combines massive encrypted traffic generation, TLS throughput of 500 Gbps, and AI inference workload emulation without external switches....
Toradex Zinnia Linux IoT Gateway Offers Dual GbE, WiFi 5, 4G LTE, I/Os, and Simplified Software Deployment
Toradex unveiled the Zinnia industrial IoT gateway, built on its Verdin SOM platform and powered by NXP or TI processors. The flagship model uses an NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC with 4 GB LPDDR5, 32 GB eMMC preloaded with the Torizon Linux OS, and...
Teen Builds Low-Cost Device to Detect and Correct Eye Drift
A 14‑year‑old Southern California student, Aaryan Balani, has engineered a wearable that monitors eye alignment and alerts the wearer in real time when the eyes drift. The prototype offers a low‑cost alternative to traditional strabismus treatments, which can run into...
Queanbeyan BESS Undergoing Return to Service Journey After Long Unplanned Outage
The Queanbeyan battery energy storage system (BESS) near Canberra has begun its return‑to‑service process after a prolonged unplanned outage. A snapshot from the Bids & Offers platform at 15:00 NEM time on 6 May 2026 shows the unit back online, albeit with some operational...
AMD Zen 6 “Venice” In Leak: EPYC Samples with up to 192 Cores Indicate Significantly Denser Server Chiplets
AMD’s upcoming 6th‑Gen EPYC processor, codenamed “Venice,” has surfaced in engineering‑sample benchmarks showing configurations of 64, 128 and up to 192 cores. The leaks suggest a new chiplet architecture with up to 32 cores per Core Complex Die, potentially reducing...
Samsung Galaxy Glasses Leaked: Displayless AI Glasses with Snapdragon AR1 to Prepare Samsung’s Next XR Step
Samsung is reportedly preparing a 2026 launch of Galaxy Glasses, a 50‑gram pair of display‑less AI glasses built around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR1. The leak lists a 12‑megapixel Sony IMX681 camera, 155 mAh battery, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth 5.3, directional speakers and photochromic lenses, all running...
Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens
Apple has stripped several high‑memory configurations from its Mac mini and Mac Studio lines as a global DRAM shortage deepens. The 32 GB and 64 GB Mac mini options are gone, and the M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now sold only with 96 GB of RAM....
Everything Old Is New Again? The Victrola Journey Glow Suitcase Record Player
The Victrola Journey Glow Suitcase Record Player, priced just under $100, revives the classic portable turntable with modern upgrades like Bluetooth, 3.5 mm and RCA inputs, and 18 dynamic RGB illumination modes. It ships with a basic ITNP‑S1 stylus, which falls...
4 Minimalist Phones That Aren’t Toys, and One You Should Skip
The article reviews four minimalist phones—Light Phone III, Minimal Phone, Mudida Kompakt, and Wisephone II—highlighting price points, hardware specs, and the unique trade‑offs each model makes to curb screen time. Light Phone III offers a premium 5G handset with a 50 MP camera for $699‑$799...
Lilbits: OpenAI Phone, Steam Machine, and the Death of Copilot for Xbox
Memory and storage price volatility is forcing PC makers to rethink pricing and launch schedules. Valve has delayed its Steam Machine and Steam Frame releases while the popular Steam Deck remains out of stock for months. Shipping containers arriving in...
Lenovo Legion Tab (5th-Gen) Gaming Tablet Is Now Available… if You Can Afford It
Lenovo has launched the 5th‑generation Legion Tab, an Android gaming tablet priced at $849 in the United States. The device packs an 8.8‑inch 165 Hz IPS LCD, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, 12 GB LPDDR5T memory, and 256 GB UFS 4.1 storage, plus Wi‑Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and...
Humane Ai Pin Hacks Turn the Discontinued Gadget Into a Standalone Android-Powered Gadget
The Humane Ai Pin, launched in 2024 as a voice‑first wearable with a camera and projector, was discontinued less than a year later when Humane shut down its cloud services. Independent developers have since revived the device using open‑source firmware, turning...
Synopsys and TSMC Deepen AI Design Alliance: What It Means
Synopsys and TSMC announced an expanded AI design alliance that couples silicon‑proven IP, AI‑driven EDA flows, and advanced packaging for 3 nm and emerging 2 nm nodes. The partnership adds 64 G UCIe and 224 G high‑speed interconnect IP, agentic run assistance in the...