Hardware & Semiconductors

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.

LG's MRGB95 series uses individually controlled RGB LEDs and Intertek-certified Triple 100% Color Coverage across BT.2020, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB in 75-, 86-, and 100-inch sizes.

Mercury Research data show AMD's EPYC processors claimed a record 46.2 percent of x86 server CPU revenue in Q1 2026, as AMD's data center segment hit $5.8 billion and overtook Intel's comparable unit.

Eric Migicovsky's rePebble introduces the Index 01, a battery-free smart ring that captures voice notes with a button press, skipping health tracking and subscriptions entirely.

NVIDIA VP Ian Buck personally delivered the first production Vera CPU systems to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle in California, marking the commercial arrival of NVIDIA's first purpose-built agentic AI processor.

Sony's 1000X THE COLLEXION launches at $649.99 on the series' 10th anniversary, featuring 12-mic ANC, Edge-AI audio upscaling, and luxury materials.

Google Quantum AI and Google.org are funding five universities to develop quantum sensors and algorithms for molecular biology, targeting drug discovery and human health.

Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII on May 13, 2026, with a new square camera island, a 48MP triple-camera system with a telephoto sensor four times larger than its predecessor, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and Wi-Fi 7 — while keeping the 3.5mm headphone jack and microSD slot rivals have abandoned.

ETH Zurich researchers published a Nature paper demonstrating noise-resistant geometric-phase swap gates for neutral-atom qubits, achieving 99.91% fidelity simultaneously across 17,000 qubit pairs in under a millisecond.

Walmart's budget Onn brand launched six Android 16 tablets on May 18, from a $97 7-inch entry model to a $288 13-inch Pro with bundled stylus and secondary-monitor support.