#AI hardware
50 stories taggedAI hardware.

TSMC Pulls In $16 Billion for September as AI Chip Demand Keeps Climbing
The world's largest contract chipmaker recorded a 54.6% year-on-year sales rise for September, extending a run of strong monthly figures driven by demand for the chips that power artificial intelligence.

Sam Altman Called Cerebras a 'Close Partner' and Stopped a 20% Slide
Four sentences from OpenAI's CEO lifted Cerebras stock 6.3% in premarket trading. The margin numbers still need to improve before the rally means anything.

Meta's Muse Charm Is Basically a Tamagotchi for Your AI Agent
A keychain-sized gadget with a tiny screen and a talking avatar could be the cheapest bet Meta has ever made on AI hardware, and it might actually work.

I walked to work with a $4,000 robot dog. Here is what happened.
A journalist's morning commute with a quadruped robot drew crowds, barking dogs, and surveillance fears. What does everyday life with a consumer robot actually feel like?

OpenAI Pays Over $300 Million for Camera AI Startup Glass Imaging
Two former Apple engineers whose software sharpens smartphone photos at the moment of capture, not after, are now part of OpenAI.

SK Hynix and Intel Are Talking About Making Memory Chips in the US
The South Korean chip giant is exploring a deal to manufacture RAM inside American borders for the first time, possibly by leasing space inside Intel's Ohio factory.

Your AI Data Center Has a Heat Problem. Here Is What the Industry Is Doing About It.
Modern AI chips now burn more than 1,000 watts each. Air conditioning can't keep up. A new white paper explains why liquid cooling is becoming the only practical answer.

Apple Wants Back in the Server Room, and Nvidia Might Help It Get There
After 15 years out of the server market, Apple could return with powerful chips and an unlikely partner, and the Mac Mini shortage is partly why.

Samsung and TSMC sign up for ASML's $400 million chipmaking machine as AI demand grows
The world's two biggest chipmakers have committed to using ASML's most advanced chip-printing tool, a sign that demand for the complex chips powering AI is only heading one way.

A Seven-Year-Old Chip Startup Just Raised $468 Million to Fix the AI Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing says it can squeeze more memory into existing chip factories, skipping the $20-to-$40 billion cost of building new ones. What that means for the AI bottleneck holding back everything from data centres to your favourite apps.

Nvidia's RTX Spark Chip Powers the First Wave of AI-Focused Laptops and Mini PCs
New machines from Lenovo, Acer, Asus and others promise enough power to run AI entirely on your own hardware, no internet connection required. Prices will be steep.

Big Tech Is Buying Up Robot Startups. Here's What That Means for the Industry
Three major acquisitions in five months have reshaped who controls the future of robotics. A controller maker that bridges traditional and AI-driven robots explains what comes next.

Nvidia's real AI edge is not the chip. It's everything around it.
After a year of flat share prices and growing GPU competition, Nvidia's latest earnings have shifted how investors see the company. The advantage was never just about making the best processor.

Meta patches its Ray-Ban smart glasses to stop secret recordings after public backlash
A software update will cut off the camera if someone covers the recording light mid-shoot, closing a loophole that let wearers film strangers without any visible warning.

Hugging Face's $399 Microduck Is a Waddling Open-Source Robot You Can Train Yourself
The duck-shaped bot picks things up, roller skates, and gets back on its feet when it falls. It ships before Christmas, and the code is free for anyone to inspect or modify.