#Hardware
Curated coverage on «Hardware»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.

Ulan-Ude Assembles Russia's First Domestic Electric Truck Under the BaikalAutoTrak Brand
At a new plant in Ulan-Ude, the company BaikalAutoTrak has assembled its first electric truck, serial number 001. The project is backed by China's Huanqiu Tonglian…

Apple Cuts October iPhone 18 Pro Component Orders by at Least 15%
Apple is reducing component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max by 15% below original plans. The reason: rising AI data center memory chip prices and iPhone 18…

Yadro Releases kvadraOS Desktop: An OS for Government and Enterprise
Kvadra, part of KNS Group (Yadro), announced kvadraOS Desktop in October 2026, a PC operating system built for phased migration of workstations to Russian software.

Phase-HDC trains a model with no optimizer history and stores 16–23x less than Adam

Principal Global Investors Strategist Weighs In on the AI Capex Cycle and Market Sentiment

NVIDIA Scales Bit-for-Bit Determinism in Megatron Core to 2,432 GPUs with 2% Overhead

Apple Is Preparing Its First Touchscreen MacBook and a New iPad mini for Late October

Apple Cuts Hardware Engineering Staff to Speed Up Development Under Ternus
Apple is trimming parts of its hardware engineering group to move faster. According to Mark Gurman, John Ternus is preparing a leaner, quicker structure for the…

Bloomberg: AI Boom Has Pushed Global Trade Imbalances to Their Widest Since 2008
Bloomberg Originals links the concentration of capital around AI to trade imbalances the world hasn't seen since the 2008 crisis. We break down the mechanics and…

Amazon finishes 1,000th Leo satellite, internet launch weeks away

Ternus Reshapes Apple as Gurman Rates Meta's $1299 VR Headset Above Vision Pro

Russian smartphones hold 1% of the market, and Sberbank expects no growth through 2036

MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+ Heads to Russian Pre-Order: The First RTX Spark Convertible

Google advances AI data center in Texas with gas plant despite climate goals
Google confirmed a partnership on the Goodnight campus in Texas, where a 933 MW gas power plant is being prepared for an AI data center, with emissions above San…

FERC criticized US tech giants over weak dialogue on power grids for data centers
The head of FERC rebuked US tech giants: as data centers' electricity demand rises, companies are doing too little to engage with the power system regulator.









