hardware

I took part in a hackathon in Vilnius the other weekend (courtesy of Basedcollective) during the pink soup festival. I brought along an old rotary phone and our two-man team spent the next 48 hours sticking our fingers in it. We wired a Raspberry Pi into the phone which interfaced with all of its IO and communicated with our server via a single websocket connection which controlled everything fro…

Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks This post is a high-level explainer for my Master’s thesis, which involves designing hardware architectures for ultrafast inference and online learning using the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) architecture. I’ll assume familiarity with standard machine learning concepts, as well as some understanding of hardware and digital circu…

Learn how tech giants are shaping the technology landscape with AI accelerators. Comparing the most popular AI chips on the market.

Everyone's talking about GPUs for AI - but a quieter hardware shift is about to change what "fast AI" actually means for the tools you use every day. The Part Nobody Talks About: The CPU Problem If you've used any AI-powered tool in the last two years - a writing assistant, an image generator, a meeting summarizer - you've probably noticed they aren't always fast. Sometimes they stall, sometimes …

Somewhere along the way, computing became disposable. Devices became sealed. Systems became rented. Ownership became licensing. Repairability disappeared. Infrastructure moved away from the user and into distant cloud platforms. And I think we lost something important because of it. Lately, I’ve found myself becoming increasingly interested in hardware again. Not just software. Not just cloud sys…

Companies are now considering new ways to build switch matrices for IC testers, using relays built using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The post Beating AI Bottlenecks with Better Switches appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .

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Netbooks are dead, but the Chuwi Minibook X scratches the same itch. The Minibook X is a 10.5″ x86_64 sub-ultrabook with 16GB RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, and only one majorly annyoing Linux quirk. I needed a knock-around laptop, so I bought myself a Minibook for my birthday last year. The more I tote it around, the more fun I’m having with this ridiculous little computer. Quick specs Much like the n…

Crisp 27in 5K Mac monitor is packed with features and some of the best HDR performance you can get for work or play Apple’s new 27in Studio Display XDR is its best monitor yet, with an exceptionally bright and gorgeous 5K screen that wants to be the pro display for Mac-wielding content creators everywhere, with a price tag to match. Built to be paired with the latest or high-end Macs, the Studio …

The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark results published by Phoronix today show that the NVIDIA Vera CPU meets this need. For this first public look, the benchmark scope […]

02 — Hardware Guide: What Do You Actually Need? 🟢 Beginner — No matter what computer you have, there's a model that will run on it. The Most Important Thing to Know VRAM is the bottleneck, not compute. A model running on a 5-year-old RTX 3060 at Q4 quantization gives you 96% of the quality of the same model on an A100 — just slower. And "slower" for most use cases (chat, coding, document analysis…

This is a submission for the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge " At Google I/O 2026, Google made a specific claim: Gemma 4 runs on consumer laptops without cloud dependency. They demoed offline coding on stage. Local AI on everyday hardware is finally practical, they said. " I tested that claim GPU and high-bandwidth memory prices are not normal right now. AI companies are buying hardware at a sc…

GPU Hardware & Driver Update: RTX 5090 Benchmarks, llama.cpp MTP, Windows 11 Fix Today's Highlights This week's top GPU news features practical performance optimization on NVIDIA's RTX 5090, a critical driver fix for Windows 11 users, and deep dives into multi-tensor processing for local LLM inference. Testing llama.cpp MTP Support on RTX 5090 (r/LocalLLaMA) Source: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaM…

Published on May 16, 2026 12:45 PM GMT Recently I'm thinking on major in Electrical engineering(EE) vs CS, I think hardware knowledge is less relevant to AI s-risks research, however, it seems EE engineers would have more expected earnings than CS, which is better for earning to give(since hardware would be replaced later by AI than software). 80000 hours has put " AI hardware engineer" as a  car…

A new technical paper, “CMOS-compatible ferroelectric tunnel junctions integrate stochastic sampling and deterministic computing for image generation,” was published by researchers at Seoul National University, Sungkyunkwan University, Hanyang University, Sogang University, and SK Hynix. Abstract “Recent progress in generative modeling has intensified the need for compact, energy-efficient hardwa…

Is your GPU not running at its advertised speed? This BIOS setting could be holding it back.

Last week I had another run-in with VGA emulation, and like last time, the cause was very likely the generally woefully inadequate VGA documentation. The VGA is not, all things considered, a particularly complicated piece of hardware. It has no microcode, no CPU/microcontroller, and performs relatively simple functions. However, the VGA does consist of several logically separate components that w…

Foldables are only useful if their software makes the most of their hardware. Luckily, the Motorola Razr 2026 series looks to do just that.

I’ve been working on a PC Engine emulator (aka TurboGrafx-16) after getting the bug to start looking at a new system, and I’ve found it to be pretty interesting hardware-wise. Originally released in 1987, its hardware is in a sort of awkward spot between the 3rd generation gaming conoles (NES, Sega Master System) and the 4th generation consoles (Genesis / Mega Drive, SNES), though it’s generally …