#Hardware
Curated coverage on «Hardware»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.
Syntiant Files for IPO: Edge AI on Chips Grows from Labs to Stock Exchange
Low-power AI chip manufacturer for local inference (on device) filed S-1 for Nasdaq IPO. Edge AI becomes commodity.
SambaNova grew to $11 billion amid demand for Nvidia alternatives
AI-chip startup SambaNova reached a $11 billion valuation—grew 5x in several months. Investors seek exit from Nvidia monopoly.
ZML Releases Free Cross-Chip AI Tool
Paris startup ZML launched free tool for quick deployment of open models on Nvidia, AMD, Google, Apple and Intel chips.
Lingsi Raised ₽35 Billion for On-Device AI Chips
Biren Technology, MoKe Shensi, and Step Created the First Optoelectronic AI Product
Chipmaker Nexchip Raises $890M in Hong Kong IPO
NVIDIA Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B: 37% model compression doubled server speed
The Era of 100,000 GPUs: China Achieves Independence in AI Computing
China’s AI infrastructure has overcome U.S. sanctions and reached the 100,000-GPU level — a turning point where the country no longer depends on Western chips
NVIDIA NeMo generates synthetic financial data for AI
NVIDIA introduced a method for synthetic generation of financial data for LLM training, addressing the imbalance of rare events in real news.
Hybrid architecture with a quantum component improves image classification by 50%
SK Hynix Raises $26.5B in Largest IPO Powered by AI Boom
The world runs on RISC-V: Alibaba on unity despite the US-China trade war
7 Trillion in Debt: How Nvidia Becomes the Financial Guarantor of AI
SmolVLM2-2.2B for local video summarization on consumer GPU
Hugging Face introduced a compact multimodal model SmolVLM2-2.2B that summarizes video on a single consumer GPU — powerful enough for real workflows, but small…
Senator Markey proposes federal AI accountability bills
Senator Ed Markey has introduced to Congress a plan for federal AI regulation covering data center energy use, workplace surveillance, and protection of children…