Topic

Hardware

12 stories

The first consumer notebooks on the open instruction set ship with working Linux and a long list of caveats.

Lena Hoffmann October 10, 2026 1 min read

Mixing dies from different vendors on one package is now routine, and it is changing who gets to design a processor.

Priya Natarajan October 10, 2026 1 min read

Capacities above 30 terabytes and a cost per bit flash cannot touch keep spinning disks at the heart of the data centre.

Mariam Petrosyan October 9, 2026 1 min read

Optical links between chips are shipping in production accelerators, cutting power and freeing designers from copper limits.

Daniel Okafor October 8, 2026 1 min read

Stacked boards, a custom battery chemistry and a surprising amount of empty space around the camera.

Priya Natarajan October 8, 2026 1 min read

Demand from accelerators ate the supply, and the fabs that could help are years from opening.

Lena Hoffmann October 7, 2026 1 min read

Analog switches have moved from gaming niche to mainstream, and software is finding uses beyond games.

Mariam Petrosyan October 6, 2026 1 min read

A rare tour of a leading-edge facility, from wafer intake to the robots that never stop.

Lena Hoffmann October 6, 2026 1 min read

Price tags, dashboards and now a laptop: reflective displays are spreading wherever battery life matters more than colour.

Mariam Petrosyan October 5, 2026 1 min read

Modular ports, a socketed CPU board and screws instead of glue. The reviewer’s verdict: it is also just a good laptop.

Mariam Petrosyan October 4, 2026 1 min read

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