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From Apple Silicon to custom ASICs and Raspberry Pi projects, hardware stories on HN bridge engineering and consumer technology. This page tracks chip announcements, device reviews, and maker projects that spark technical discussion.

Supply chain constraints, performance benchmarks, and repairability debates add depth beyond product marketing.

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Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

newsroom.arm.com · 18 points · 9 comments

Pope's Top US Cardinals Visit Silicon Valley, Warn Millions Will Lose Jobs

thelettersfromleo.com · 3 points · 0 comments

AI cancer cures slowed by chip shortage, says Arm boss

bbc.com · 12 points · 10 comments

Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame

theatlantic.com · 68 points · 34 comments

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

vllm.ai · 37 points · 9 comments

'RAMageddon' hits consumer electronics as AI drains chip supply

ft.com · 12 points · 3 comments

Gotham Silicon: 1μ CMOS process that will ship custom chips for –$100 in <24hrs

gothamsilicon.com · 10 points · 7 comments

Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry

3 points · 0 comments

Hot Chips 2026: Irrational Recap

irrationalanalysis.substack.com · 9 points · 0 comments

New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd)

olimex.wordpress.com · 6 points · 0 comments

A Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying Nvidia's Best A.I. Chips

nytimes.com · 3 points · 0 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

devquasar.com · 27 points · 8 comments

AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation packing 96 cores

tomshardware.com · 12 points · 3 comments

AI Image Generation on an RP2350 Microcontroller

cpldcpu.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Repairing Traces on a Delidded Pentium III CPU Gone Wrong

hackaday.com · 4 points · 0 comments

The 33-Year-Old AI Hotshot Taking Silicon Valley Swagger Back to Beijing

wsj.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Searching for the Best Silicone USB Cable

frankchiarulli.com · 11 points · 3 comments

The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026

raspberry.tips · 49 points · 53 comments

Three-LLM: Three.js-based WebGPU LLM inference engine

three-llm.ben3d.ca · 7 points · 2 comments

WiringPi 3.20 – Updated GPIO Library for Raspberry Pi

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR

compute.cheap · 3 points · 0 comments

M6 Mac Mini vs. M1 Mac Mini: original Apple Silicon versus the new

appleinsider.com · 4 points · 0 comments

The Nerd Reich wants to 'destroy' democracy, and it's mask has slipped

abc.net.au · 17 points · 9 comments

I built a version of Omarchy that runs on Apple Silicon

github.com · 15 points · 4 comments

PulsarForge – run a 744B MoE model on 32GB RAM with zero GPU (pure C)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Chinese court freezes $300M of Nexperia assets in Wingtech case

reuters.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Taiwan's six-year hunt for China's undercover chip labs

restofworld.org · 3 points · 0 comments

Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts an AMD B650 Chipset onto a PCIe Card for More I/O

phoronix.com · 3 points · 0 comments

The ZX Spectrum sound chip hidden in a 1992 DOS game's Tandy driver

utopia.platesteel.net · 4 points · 0 comments

GrapheneOS may skip Pixel 11 over missing hardware security feature

cyberinsider.com · 29 points · 3 comments