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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas — Apple Inc.'s newly com
Apple: Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering — Apple today announced that, effective immedi
Apple Inc. announced today that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become chief executive officer on Sept. 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who will transition to executive ch
CNBC: John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board — Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is s
Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO on September 1, 2026, ending his 15-year tenure, with John Ternus, the senior vice president of hardware engineering, succeeding him as chief execut
As the automotive landscape accelerates toward software-defined vehicles, Cockpit Domain Controllers (CDCs) are becoming the core of next-generation in-cabin experiences. The ability to rapidly develo
AI model co-design involves integrating model requirements into hardware planning to ensure memory hierarchies and networking stacks are purpose-built for specific systems . AI performance balances th
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered 'a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by
CNBC: Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets — Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in fed
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI — Apple Sues Ope
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets — Apple filed a la
PhysicsX Ltd., a startup using artificial intelligence to speed up hardware design projects, today announced that it has raised 300 million in funding. Returning investor Temasek led the Series C roun
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: The first developer beta of iOS 27 offers the clearest signs yet of Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, with references to folding hardware and flexible displays — Apple Inc.'s
Phoebe Liu / The Information: Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals — Nvidia has a pl
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that uses a single camera and basic language prompts — Mistral A
Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a 300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures — - Or
Artificial intelligence adoption has brought hardware back in style, with Dell Technologies Inc. having an astounding week. The hardware firm saw an 88% jump in revenue and its stock closed up at 33%
Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a 500M Series B at a valuation of at least 5B — The Series B round, which ch
Emma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft reports Q3 Xbox hardware revenue fell 33% YoY and Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, dropped 5% YoY — Xbox hardware revenue took a 33 percent
OpenAI is finally releasing some hardware. No, it isn't the mysterious AI-powered device the company is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive, a project already tangled up in a messy lawsuit.
CUDA 13.3 introduces **clmad**, a hardware‑accelerated carryless multiply‑accumulate instruction available on all NVIDIA Ampere and newer GPUs (SM 80+), filling a long‑standing gap in GPU‑native binar
Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after
This IBM Research article discusses optimizing AI inference performance and costs by leveraging mixed hardware configurations, combining different types of processors and accelerators rather than rely
Protecting sensitive data used with AI is a critical part of our commitment to providing advanced and secure cloud infrastructure. Confidential Computing cryptographically protects data in use in hard
Anthropic is hiring a custom silicon team to design proprietary chips that will power its Claude models, while still planning a multi‑chip strategy that mixes internally designed hardware with compone
Figure 1: CUDA-to-MLX optimization translation map. CUDA optimization knowledge can be translated into architecture-native MLX strategies rather than copied instruction-for-instruction. We face a new
NVIDIA Confidential Computing addresses data privacy and security concerns for AI workloads by protecting data during inference and engagement with models, offering high-performance protection in loca
Kylie Robison / Core Memory: How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China — Westmag a
Hardware firms are cleaning up bigtime as enterprises and cloud providers can’t get enough computing power for their artificial intelligence dreams. Dell Technology’s stock rocketed an incredible 31%
Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer — Picogrid is proving that teamwork
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: A look at Xiaomi's AI push to future-proof its hardware and EV ecosystem, as it recently committed ~$8.8B in AI investments over the next three years — Xiaomi is
@bookwormengr: A look at DeepSeek's model optimization to reduce HBM use, potentially enabling domestic memory, ASIC, and CPU makers to create a Chinese AI hardware ecosystem — Have you ever wondered,
The unit of AI compute has shifted from single hosts to rack-scale systems that integrate NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, scale-up networking fabrics, and liquid cooling, such as the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 and NVIDIA
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Flipper unveils the Flipper One, a pocketable open Arm Linux computer with similar performance to a Raspberry Pi 5, and welcomes feedback to get it market-ready — But the
Bloomberg: Analysts: China's AI hardware suppliers face capacity constraints and component shortages, including optical and electronic chips, that may limit 2026 growth — China's artificial intelligen
AI factory security begins at the hardware layer — a fact that is taking on new urgency as enterprises scramble to secure the infrastructure powering the next computing era. The rise of agentic AI and
Tom Carter / Business Insider: Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a “multi-chip approach” — - Anth
Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is in the early stages of developing its own AI chip designed for inference, in a bid to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware — Chinese startup DeepSeek is deve
Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab — Nvidia Corp. is w
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time” — Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others — [Editor's Note:
Reuters: Russia's Sberbank says it hopes to use Chinese chips to power its flagship GigaChat AI model, as sanctions continue to block the country's access to hardware — Russia hopes to power its flags
Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised 30M at a 1.4B valuation — West Coast pip
Luke James / Tom's Hardware: Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction — Metrics a
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving Nitro subscribers access to offers from gaming services like Xbox Game Pass and hardware like Logitech G at no extra cost — Disco
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors — Fewer
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has “now dropped to zero” and that US export policy “has already largely backfired” — US export restr
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected — Comp
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it — Meta Platforms In
Luke James / Tom's Hardware: China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture — Good luck
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: TSMC unveils its process technology roadmap through 2029, aiming to launch a new node yearly for client applications and every two years for AI and HPC — Still no High-N
OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongsid
Less than a year ago, Apple made headlines for a lack of AI announcements at its annual WWDC event. Ten months later, the company has announced that hardware executive John Ternus will succeed longtim
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook — It's a p
The math behind reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for large language models (LLMs) is notoriously unforgiving. As frontier AI labs push the boundaries of reasoning and coding models using RL p
Securing infrastructure and services against a future cryptographically-relevant quantum computer has been a goal for Google for a decade, and we’ve dedicated ourselves to help developers by advancing
This article from SemiAnalysis tracks the performance evolution of DeepSeek V4, a 1.6 trillion parameter model, over its first 43 days of training on Huawei and NVIDIA hardware including GB300 NVL72,
Editor’s note: This blog post outlines Google Cloud’s GPU AI/ML infrastructure reliability strategy, and will be updated with links to new community articles as they appear. As we enter the era of mul
Written by: Kelli Vanderlee, Stuart Carrera For years, the cybersecurity industry's understanding of software supply chain compromise has been anchored by a few watershed events, including Russian cyb
AI hardware competition entered a sharper phase this week as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. used its flagship AI event to argue it isn’t merely chasing Nvidia Corp. — it intends to lead the market outrig