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Xsight Labs has its programmable, power-efficient Ethernet switches selected for SpaceX’s Starlink Gen 3 satellites, with multiple switches per satellite slated to launch in large volumes this year. The company won a competitive evaluation focused on programmability, power efficiency and resilience to vibration, radiation and thermal stress, narrowing the field to two vendors. Starlink already operates about 8,000 Gen 2 satellites and expects Gen 3 deployment to be a multiple of that fleet, making this a significant hardware win at scale. Xsight’s solution addresses the need for remote programmability and health monitoring in spacecraft that cannot be serviced post-launch.
Samsung is set to unveil its Galaxy S26 lineup on Wednesday, February 25, with shipments expected in early March. The company will keep pricing steady at $800 for the base S26, $1,000 for the Plus, and $1,300 for the Ultra,...
Red Magic unveiled the 11 Air, its latest entry in the gaming‑phone segment, positioning it as a high‑performance device priced around $500. The handset arrives in two colors—Phantom black and Prism white—and targets mobile gamers seeking console‑like controls without a premium...
Hammerspace’s core capability is aggregating metadata from diverse underlying storage systems—object and NAS—into metadata servers that sit outside the data path to create a single global namespace. The platform assimilates metadata (a process that takes days, not instant) so organizations...
Hammerspace offers a data-management platform that decouples data from underlying infrastructure, creating a virtually infinite, location-agnostic storage layer across clouds and on-prem systems. The company aggregates metadata across the data estate to eliminate silos, speed pipelines and enable seamless use...
UGREEN’s iDX6011 Pro AI NAS is a crowdfunded network appliance aimed at bringing local LLM capabilities to on-premise data, with one-click model installs and mostly local processing but optional cloud integration. The reviewer finds the AI features still under development...
Cisco tested its proprietary deep networking model against generalist LLMs (GPT-5, Lambda/Gemma, GPTO OSS) on a 590-question MCQ benchmark and reported roughly a 20% performance advantage. The company credits that lead to training on its own networking data, yielding more...
Cisco engineers warn that many enterprise network teams are unprepared for the unique demands of modern data-center traffic, particularly sustained, ultra-high-bandwidth flows between GPUs. Designing for these workloads requires precise spatial engineering of traffic, careful class-of-service configuration and detailed topology-aware...
Speakers argue that relying solely on rented cloud GPU resources is discouraging AI research because usage-based billing forces researchers to limit experimentation. They advocate for on-premises GPU infrastructure—capitalized once and reused over long lifecycles—to enable sustained exploration, hand down hardware...
The video argues that consumers need not rush to purchase Samsung’s newest flagship, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, because a barely older model— the Galaxy S24 Ultra—offers virtually the same hardware at a dramatically lower cost on the secondary market. It...
The video, part of Harbor Unboxed Q&A, explores why gaming hardware improvements will stall until around 2030, focusing on current RAM and GPU shortages and how creators adapt. Tim and the host discuss DLSS 4.5's performance hit on legacy RTX cards,...
AMD AM5 motherboards from ASUS and Gigabyte now expose a Bank Refresh Mode setting that lets users choose between legacy (all-bank) refresh, fine-granularity refresh (FGR), and a mixed mode that switches dynamically. FGR refreshes one bank per bank group instead...
The Evenstar Workstream met Dec. 12 with co-chair Tom Nato filling in; the group had no formal agenda but discussed several pending items from recent weeks. Members flagged an “autonomous RU” paper with comments to be circulated and reviewed in...
On the Jan. 9 Evenstar workstream call, OCP leaders outlined a reorganization that will fold the Evenstar project into a newly proposed AI computing continuum, replacing the existing telco/edge top-level project. The group plans to refocus Evenstar toward integrating AI...
Members of the OCP Evenstar community reviewed progress on the RAI (Radio Abstraction Interface) and coordination with the Open MPlane project, reporting significant repo modernization, dependency upgrades, dockerization, and a new test suite and mock RU/DU simulations aimed at enabling...
The video explains how quantization can cut the memory footprint of large language model (LLM) inference, focusing on the bottleneck of GPU memory and KV cache size. By moving from 16‑ or 32‑bit precision to 8‑bit (FP8), the KV cache per...
The video marks the 30‑year anniversary of the original 3dfx Voodoo graphics card, highlighting its role as the first consumer‑grade 3D accelerator that brought Hollywood‑level visual fidelity to home PCs. Founded by former Silicon Graphics engineers, 3dfx aimed to compress a...
The video reviews an ultra‑cheap aluminium‑plate PTC heater sourced from Aliexpress for roughly €4, positioning it as a low‑budget alternative for reflow soldering printed circuit boards. The creator demonstrates the unit’s quick heat‑up time and its self‑limiting temperature characteristic, which...
The video walks through how the creator pushed a Ryzen 7 9850X3D to a sustained 6 GHz using an AIO cooler and a series of BIOS and software tweaks. He starts from the OC Strategy 4 preset—enabling EXPO 1, switching to a synchronous E‑clock at 103 MHz...
A teardown-style test of Samsung’s trifold phone shows the hinge contains sensors that cause the device to vibrate as a camera-side flap approaches the center, and the creator warns starting a fold on the camera panel could risk damage. External...
A severe global memory shortage is rippling through the PC industry, with Counterpoint warning of 80–90% RAM price increases from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 and major OEMs scrambling for supply. Manufacturers including HP, Dell, Acer and Asus have turned...
Intel’s new Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3, exemplified by the high-end Core Ultra X9388H, delivers modest CPU gains over Arrow Lake but makes major strides in efficiency and graphics. Review testing by PCWorld shows dramatically improved battery life—matching Lunar...
Apple’s Lockdown Mode prevented the FBI from extracting data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone during a recent home raid, according to court filings and TechRadar. Agents seized multiple devices, forced the reporter to unlock a work MacBook with her...
The video calls out AMD for refusing to backport its latest upscaling technology, FSR4, to older Radeon GPUs. While the official version relies on FP8 hardware found only in the RDNA4‑based RX 9000 series, an accidental source‑code release in August 2025 revealed...
In his 100th Probing Paul episode, Paul warns that the PC-building landscape could worsen in 2026 as contract memory prices surge—DRAM up roughly 90–95% quarter-on-quarter and NAND up 55–60%—driven by AI and data-center demand. He notes immediate knock-on effects at...
Sony’s PlayStation 5 has reached an installed base of 92.2 million consoles and about 132 million active monthly users, indicating a substantial pool of PS4 owners still ripe for upgrade. With Rockstar’s GTA 6 expected to launch on PS5 and...
5GbE networking is emerging in 2026 as a practical mid-tier standard, showing up in new consumer NAS and home/business devices at price points comparable to earlier 2.5Gb models. Manufacturers favor 5GbE because controllers and adapters are now affordable, it consumes...
The video showcases Samsung’s SmartThings ecosystem powering a suite of connected kitchen appliances in a coffee‑shop setting, highlighting how Wi‑Fi integration transforms everyday tasks into automated, data‑driven experiences. Key functionalities include a refrigerator with an interior camera that logs inventory, suggests...
