Hardware & Semiconductors

JetPack 7.2.1 adds T3000 emulation on the Jetson Thor AGX Developer Kit plus new automated video-pipeline tools built on PyNvVideoCodec 2.2.

A ServeTheHome deep dive breaks down CDNA 5, the architecture behind AMD's Instinct MI455X, alongside the ROCm.ai tooling meant to let AI coding agents program AMD GPUs natively.

AMD is buying Toronto-based Taalas, whose chips etch model weights directly into silicon instead of storing them in memory, to strengthen its AI inference lineup.

IBM and UChicago ran a 70-logical-qubit circuit beyond classical simulation reach and verified it to 95% confidence, one of three quantum-advantage papers released the same day with mixed outside reception.

HRL published a Nature paper on an 18-qubit silicon spin processor run by an onboard cryogenic chip, days after IBM agreed to acquire the lab.

Google says the entire Pixel lineup will see price "adjustments" after RAM costs jumped sixfold, with specifics due August 12.

Quantinuum, Caltech, UChicago, and Harvard used 54 qubits on the H2 processor to build a universal gate set from non-Abelian anyons, aiming to sidestep costly magic state distillation.

Zhongqi Wuliang showed Qinghe No. 1, a neutral-atom quantum computer built to fit a standard data-center rack, at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai.

Skullcandy launched the $279.99 Crusher 1080 ANC on July 15, the first non-Bose headphones to combine Bose QuietControl noise cancellation, TrueSpatial audio, and WaveForm sound with Skullcandy's own bass technology.

Samsung announced Flex Titanium, a two-layer titanium display structure it says reduces crease visibility and boosts durability, ahead of its July 22 Unpacked event in London.

Bloomberg reports Apple is developing two redesigned Apple Pencil models with easier-to-replace batteries ahead of a 2027 EU rule mandating removable batteries in portable electronics.

Lightstorm, Microsoft, Singtel, and Tata Communications will build the 3,600 km I-2SEA submarine cable linking India's AI data centers to Singapore and Malaysia by Q4 2029.