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Lenovo has reaffirmed that it will support the Legion Go 2 handheld through October 2029, but it has not provided a release date for the next graphics driver. The most recent major driver update arrived in December 2023 for the 32.0.21030 branch that originated in October 2022. Lenovo’s support team directs users to the Legion Space app for BIOS and driver downloads, despite some guidance pointing to Lenovo Vantage. While the company assures that new driver packages will be published after testing, the lack of a concrete ETA leaves owners uncertain about future performance improvements.
Embedded SIM (eSIM) and integrated SIM (iSIM) are reshaping IoT connectivity by allowing carriers and enterprises to provision cellular profiles over the air. eSIM uses a dedicated chip, while iSIM embeds SIM functions directly into the device’s main processor, cutting...
Companies are accelerating AI compute capacity with truck‑sized modular data centers. Duos Edge AI will deploy four 55‑foot pods, each housing 576 Nvidia GPUs, for a total of 2,304 GPUs, while LG CNS plans similar 576‑GPU units with future expansions...
AI is rapidly reshaping the Internet of Things, with the 2026 IoT 50 highlighting a wave of new AI‑driven offerings. Siemens partnered with Nvidia to build an Industrial AI operating system that will embed intelligence across manufacturing workflows. HiveMQ expanded its...
The 2026 CRN IoT 50 highlights ten connectivity firms reshaping enterprise IoT in the AI era. AT&T’s $5.75 billion acquisition of Lumen’s Quantum Fiber adds 4 million fiber sites, targeting 60 million locations by 2030. Other leaders include Aeris with over 100 million devices, Myriota’s...
In 2024, only about 40 % of Africans are online and most of their traffic runs through servers outside the continent. Africa hosts just 103 data centres, with South Africa holding 61, Nigeria 23 and Kenya 19, compared with the United...
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Hitachi have signed an MOU to convert second‑hand vessels into floating data centers, with a target launch no earlier than 2027. The partnership will leverage MOL’s maritime conversion expertise and Hitachi’s data‑center operations in Japan,...
Chinese battery maker CALB has begun series production of its R46 cylindrical cells at the Chengdu plant for Aridge, Xpeng’s flying‑car subsidiary. The hybrid liquid‑solid batteries deliver up to 360 Wh/kg and support a 25 C discharge rate, meeting aviation‑grade safety standards...
Qnetic, a SOSV‑backed startup, is launching low‑volume production of its Q500 solid‑state flywheel energy storage system at a new Sacramento factory. The Q500 is designed for 500 kWh capacity, 125 kW power, and up to twelve hours of discharge at lower power,...
AAIR has launched its AI‑driven Intelligent HVAC system for hotels, promising up to 30% energy savings compared with conventional units. The compact 14.3‑inch design replaces bulky VTAC and PTAC units, freeing interior space and reducing noise. Integrated with building‑management software,...
The speculative Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears to trade higher power draw for a lower boost clock, positioning it as a niche product for enthusiasts willing to invest in custom cooling. ASUS has teased a DDR5‑8800 CL32 memory overclock on the platform, but such...
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 2‑in‑1 Gen 10 Intel Aura Edition, a premium 14‑inch OLED convertible, is now available for $1,593 after a $1,100 discount, down from its $2,699 list price. The device combines a 2880×1800, 120 Hz display with a 57 Whr battery that delivers...
PNY is shipping NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Editions equipped with up to four Blackwell GPUs. The configuration delivers up to 14.2 petaflops of AI compute and 384 GB of GPU memory, matching data‑center performance on a desktop. The workstations accelerate data‑science...
Rice University researchers have created electric heating elements from carbon‑nanotube fibers (CNTFs) that outperform traditional metal‑alloy heaters in gas‑flow applications. By exploiting CNTFs' high specific power loading, lightweight strength and superior thermal conductivity, the team built filament, array and textile‑style...
A wave of reports suggests that AMD Ryzen 9 9800X3D CPUs are failing when paired with certain ASRock motherboards. Mindfactory alone has shipped roughly 10,000 of these combos, raising the prospect of a large‑scale defect. Users debate whether the root cause lies...
Hikvision has launched LinkVu, a cloud‑managed IoT and networking suite aimed at small‑ and medium‑size business installers. The platform consolidates switches, routers, access points, cameras and other devices under the Hik‑Partner Pro mobile app. Integrated tools such as the HPP...
The UK’s EXPRESS programme, a five‑year EPSRC‑funded initiative worth £10.4 m (≈$13.2 m), is led by the Universities of Warwick and Southampton to develop electro‑deposition methods for transition‑metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). Researchers will combine novel precursor chemistry with electrochemical techniques to grow high‑crystallinity...
Agibot announced the production of its 10,000th humanoid robot, a milestone that underscores a rapid shift from niche pilots to large‑scale commercial deployment. The company accelerated production from 5,000 to 10,000 units in just three months, a four‑fold speed increase...
Vodafone’s "One Million Phones for the Planet" campaign has collected a million devices across Europe and Africa, generating £1 million (≈$1.25 million) for WWF conservation work. The funds are earmarked for projects such as a new Colombian national park, Brazil’s Earth Engine...
The Small journal review outlines how structural design drives performance gains in stretchable strain sensors that incorporate one‑dimensional conductive nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires. It catalogs common architectures—ordered arrays, engineered cracks, wavy or wrinkled films, and mesh...
Jan De Nul has engaged CRP Subsea to supply 141 NjordGuard cable protection systems for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The CPS designs are being engineered for both monopile and J‑tube interfaces, with production in...
Ukrainian drone maker General Chereshnya and U.S. firm Wilcox Industries have announced a joint venture to produce first‑person‑view (FPV) and interceptor drones on U.S. soil. The partnership will localize component manufacturing and seek Blue UAS certification to satisfy Pentagon and...
BBC Studioworks has chosen INFiLED’s DBmk2 LED panels to modernise the National Lottery draw studio at Television Centre. Two 5 × 3 metre screens with a 1.95 mm pixel pitch are mounted at a 90‑degree angle, allowing instant backdrop changes at the push of a...
HPE VM Essentials on HPE ProLiant Gen12 servers offers South African enterprises a clear path to consolidate legacy hardware, boost performance per core, and cut energy consumption. The solution pairs a streamlined virtualization stack with hardware‑level security via Silicon Root of Trust and...
Anker SOLIX has launched the Power Dock Pro in Australia, extending its X1 home battery system from critical‑load to whole‑home backup and enabling off‑grid operation with third‑party solar inverters. The device features a 63 A interface, dual inverter ports and a...
The global semiconductor foundry market, dubbed "Foundry 2.0," is projected to top $360 billion in 2026, a 17% rise from today. AI‑driven demand for advanced nodes and next‑generation packaging is the primary catalyst, while mature‑node pricing rebounds as capacity tightens. TSMC...
Industrial firms are replacing reactive and preventive upkeep with data‑driven maintenance models powered by IoT. Predictive maintenance uses sensor data to forecast equipment failures, while prescriptive maintenance adds decision logic that recommends or automates optimal actions. The transition relies on...
Broadcom delivered a double‑beat Q1, posting $19.3 billion revenue and $2.05 non‑GAAP EPS, while forecasting AI revenue of $10.7 billion and total revenue of $22 billion, underscoring the strength of its AI accelerator portfolio. Fastly’s management reiterated confidence in sustainable, profitable growth beyond...
The Indian government’s IndiaAI Mission, backed by roughly $1.27 billion, has onboarded more than 38,000 GPUs through a centralised compute portal, offering subsidised access to startups, researchers and academia. The mission has already approved 190 AI‑related projects spanning government agencies, MSMEs...
The AI boom has triggered a severe DRAM shortage, pushing conventional memory prices up 90% in early 2026 and straining startup budgets. Startups typically allocate 15‑25% of hardware spend to memory, and the scarcity is causing longer lead times and...
Australian startup WinDC, together with US‑based Armada, will install 11 MW of modular, container‑sized data centers at solar, wind and battery sites across New South Wales and Western Australia. The portable units run entirely on renewable power, can be moved by...
Siemens announced a $165 million investment to expand manufacturing in North and South Carolina, targeting the booming AI and data‑center market. The rollout includes new carbon‑neutral facilities in Raleigh and Wendell, NC, and expanded plants in Spartanburg and Roebuck, SC, adding...
At GTC 2026 Nvidia unveiled its CMX KV‑cache extension platform and the STX modular reference architecture, adding a new G3.5 flash tier that offloads LLM inference context from GPU memory to NVMe storage. Nvidia claims CMX can deliver up to five‑fold...
The Indian government approved 29 electronics component projects under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme, committing roughly $855 million (₹7,104 crore) in capital. The approved initiatives, led by firms such as Dixon Display, Lohum Cleantech and Indo‑MIM, aim to produce goods worth about...
Mistral AI has secured an $830 million syndicated loan from seven banks to finance a new AI data centre near Paris, slated to launch in Q2 2026. The facility will house 13,800 Nvidia GPUs, giving the French startup direct control over its...
Engineering samples of AMD's upcoming EPYC Venice processors, built on the Zen 6 microarchitecture, have surfaced in internal validation rigs. The chips are rumored to scale up to 192 cores, continuing AMD's push for massive parallelism in data‑center servers. Early testing...
HP’s new Series 7 Pro 732xk is a 31.5‑in 4K IPS Black monitor priced around $890, offering 99% coverage of both DCI‑P3 and Adobe RGB and VESA DisplayHDR 600 certification. It packs a robust connectivity suite, including HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, and Thunderbolt 4 with 100 W...
Titan Army unveiled the U255L, a 24‑inch Full HD gaming monitor that pushes a native 620 Hz refresh rate and a 0.1 ms gray‑to‑gray response time. The display relies on an ultra‑fast TN panel enhanced by the proprietary DyDs 2.0 black‑frame insertion system,...
Aewin introduced the NCT404, a full‑height, half‑length PCIe CEM quad‑port 10 GbE NIC built around two Intel E610‑XAT2 controllers. The card provides four RJ45 10 GbE ports, PCIe Gen 4 ×8 connectivity, and dual Gen 3 bypass pairs that keep traffic flowing during host failures. Intel’s E610...
Samsung unveiled a custom RISC‑V based controller for its upcoming BM9K1 PCIe 5.0 SSD, marking a shift from Arm‑based designs. The drive targets sequential reads up to 11.4 GB/s and projected writes near 10 GB/s, using QLC NAND for high density. Samsung claims...
HONOR has unveiled the world’s first robot phone, featuring a 4‑degrees‑of‑freedom gimbal that shrinks motor size by roughly 70 percent. The device pairs a three‑axis mechanical gimbal with an AI stabilization engine, allowing fluid motion during AI‑enhanced video calls and...
Chinese researchers have unveiled a lithium‑metal battery that surpasses 700 Wh/kg energy density at room temperature and retains about 400 Wh/kg at -50 °C. The new electrolyte replaces oxygen with fluorine, boosting ion conductivity and stability. Integrated into a FAW Hongqi prototype, the...
Researchers at Caltech have unveiled a photonic platform that routes light across silicon wafers with loss levels comparable to optical fiber, even at visible wavelengths. The waveguides, made from germano‑silicate glass, are fabricated using lithography on standard 8‑inch and 12‑inch...
SmartRay has launched the ECCO X 050G, a new 3D sensor that extends the ECCO X family to handle highly reflective and transparent surfaces such as glass. The compact unit delivers up to 40 kHz scan rates, 2.2‑2.9 µm vertical resolution and 163 million points...
SecurePrint3D, founded in 2023, unveiled a patented hardware‑enforced print‑authorisation system designed to close the authorisation gap in distributed additive manufacturing. The technology embeds cryptographic controls directly into 3D printers, ensuring only approved digital files can be produced. Founder Ranjith Gopalakrishnan...
Samsung’s premium QLED televisions now carry the Real Quantum Dot certification from TÜV Rheinland, confirming a genuine quantum‑dot implementation. The technology delivers 100% colour volume, brighter and more accurate images, and eliminates cadmium for safer, longer‑lasting performance. Consumers should verify...
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will stop certifying Chinese CCTV brands such as Hikvision and Dahua from April 1, effectively barring them from the market. The new essential requirements mandate disclosure of component origins and vulnerability testing, forcing...
University of Georgia researchers reviewed MXene‑based smart textiles that can continuously monitor body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate while also providing antimicrobial protection. The fabrics harvest solar energy, enabling built‑in power banks that could charge phones or laptops. The...
JX Advanced Metals Corp. announced a plan to invest roughly ¥100 billion ($623 million) each year, targeting its chip‑related material businesses as semiconductor demand surges. The new annual budget represents an increase from the ¥90 billion average spent over the past three years....
