Tag: Hardware

Lightmatter halves fiber counts with a bidirectional optical module

Lightmatter has joined the Open CPX MSA and shipped a module that puts both directions of an optical…

OpenAI picks up a camera startup run by two ex-Apple engineers

Glass Imaging, which trains neural networks on how individual phone lenses distort light, reportedly sold for more than…

Hugging Face ships a $399 duck robot you can retrain

Hugging Face unveiled Microduck, a $399 open source duck robot that learns tricks through reinforcement learning.

OpenAI custom silicon outruns Nvidia on first inference tests

OpenAI's first benchmarks for its in-house Jalapeno chip show it beating an Nvidia Blackwell system on power-scaled inference.

Anthropic hires hardware engineers to design custom Claude chips

Anthropic confirms it is hiring engineers to co-design custom chips for Claude while keeping AWS, Google, Nvidia and…

Meta starts production of in-house Iris AI chip in September

Meta plans to manufacture its first custom AI chip codenamed Iris starting September as part of a massive…

Nvidia launches Jetson Thor for mainstream robotics and edge AI

Nvidia's new Jetson Thor computers bring server-class AI performance to general-purpose robots and autonomous machines at the industrial…

Google Splits Its Next Gen TPU: One Chip for Training, One for Agents

Google bifurcated its eighth generation TPU into a training specific chip and an inference focused chip, claiming twice…