Hardware & Semiconductors

The company reports the first full toric-code error-correction demonstration on neutral atoms, sustaining logical memory across up to 90 cycles by reloading lost qubits from a reservoir.

Uptime's 2026 report marks a fifth straight year of declining outage frequency, but 57% of major outages now cost over $100,000 and power remains the top cause.

NVIDIA officially unveiled the RTX Spark Superchip at Computex 2026 — a 20-core Arm Grace CPU paired with a Blackwell GPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, launching in laptops from six OEMs in fall 2026.

AMD's 6th Gen EPYC 'Venice' is ramping on TSMC 2nm — the first HPC chip on the node — with 256 Zen 6 cores and 1.6 TB/s memory bandwidth.

Oura's fifth-generation smart ring is 40% smaller than its predecessor, adds Health Radar software with Blood Pressure Signals, and ships June 4 starting at $399.

All three major memory chipmakers crossed $1 trillion in market cap within weeks as AI demand, sold-out HBM4 capacity, and a landmark UBS upgrade triggered a historic valuation surge.

Anker's Soundcore division unveiled the Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max earbuds at a New York City event, powered by its first proprietary AI chip.

reMarkable launches the Paper Pure at $399, replacing the reMarkable 2 with a 50% faster, 40g lighter monochrome writing tablet as the company simultaneously navigates major layoffs.

Apple and Intel have struck a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture some Apple chips, ending a six-year split and handing Intel Foundry its most consequential customer win yet.

The three largest US carriers announced an agreement in principle on May 14 to form a joint venture that will pool spectrum resources and build shared satellite direct-to-device infrastructure to close coverage gaps in rural and underserved areas.

London-based Fractile closes a $220M Series B led by Accel, Founders Fund, and Factorial Funds to tape out SRAM-based inference chips promising radically faster and cheaper AI output generation.

NVIDIA will reveal the N1/N1X SoC at Jensen Huang's June 1 GTC Taipei keynote, a Blackwell-GPU Arm chip co-developed with MediaTek targeting Dell and Lenovo laptops.