#Hardware
Curated coverage on «Hardware»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.
Madison Air raised $2.23 billion in its IPO and bet on data center infrastructure
Madison Air raised $2.23 billion in its IPO, and Jill Wyant tied future growth to the data center boom, where demand for ventilation and filtration is rising…
Qualcomm and China’s CXMT prepare new DRAM for smartphones amid memory shortage
Qualcomm may be working with China’s CXMT on a new mobile DRAM: demand for memory for AI systems is straining smartphone supply despite the years-long US-China…
Microsoft veteran ran a transformer on a 6 MHz PDP-11 with 64 KB of memory
Former Microsoft developer Dave Plummer trained a tiny transformer on a 47-year-old PDP-11 and showed that the essence of AI is not magic, but optimized arithmetic.
US poll finds: people are more comfortable living next to an Amazon warehouse than a data center
Nebius acquires Eigen AI for $643 million to accelerate and lower the cost of AI infrastructure
TSMC reported 58% profit growth: AI investments supported chip demand
Meta expands multibillion-dollar alliance with Broadcom for its own AI chips
Google-linked data centers prepare record $5.7 billion high-yield bond issuance
Google-linked data center operators want to raise $5.7 billion through a high-yield bond issuance — it could become the largest deal of its kind for AI…
Sequoia Capital raised $7 billion for its largest growth fund, nearly doubling its AI bet
Sequoia Capital has closed the largest growth fund in its history at $7 billion: nearly twice the size of its 2022 counterpart and a clear bet on late-stage rounds…
US utilities prepare $1.4 trillion in investments by 2030 amid AI data center boom
Memory card makers cut speeds amid flash memory shortage
Microsoft, NVIDIA, and IBM made the list of the 19 leading AI red teaming tools of 2026
Claude and the illusion of honesty: why people trust chatbots more than their own judgment
Cursor in talks for a $2B+ round at a $50B valuation amid enterprise growth
Cursor, according to TechCrunch, is in talks for a funding round of more than $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation amid explosive growth in enterprise revenue and…
Allbirds moves from footwear to AI infrastructure, and the market recalls the dot-com era
Sneaker maker Allbirds is selling its footwear business, raising $50 million for GPU infrastructure, and renaming itself NewBird AI, while the market reaction…