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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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Chip stocks tumble as AI sell-off deepens

ft.com · 31 points · 5 comments

DocSlicer – Structure-aware PDF/DOCX/PPTX parser, 31 pages/sec on CPU

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library

github.com · 87 points · 32 comments

'It sounds like someone set up a vacuum ': Michigan residents sue AI DC

tomshardware.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Base-GPUI: A GPUI port of Base UI headless components

github.com · 8 points · 4 comments

AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks

theguardian.com · 17 points · 2 comments

Swift-topomap – A silicon-aware TUI and eBPF metrics engine in Rust

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Day 0 Kimi-K3 Inference Deployment with Atom on AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs

amd.com · 9 points · 0 comments

China Begins Making Homegrown DUV Lithography Chipmaking Tools

reuters.com · 6 points · 0 comments

S.Korea's KOSPI tumbles nearly 5% as chipmakers slump on AI worries

reuters.com · 10 points · 5 comments

Measured LLM inference speeds on Apple Silicon, with raw data (CC BY 4.0)

macyou.co · 10 points · 3 comments

China begins mass production of homegrown DUV chipmaking tools

tomshardware.com · 5 points · 0 comments

AMD Advancing AI 2026: Talking CDNA5 with AMD's Alan Smith

chipsandcheese.com · 3 points · 0 comments

multiaes – hardware-accelerated, constant-time AES, two-file drop-in

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

China begins making homegrown DUV chipmaking tools

reuters.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations

techspot.com · 19 points · 20 comments

If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

smoothbrains.net · 42 points · 63 comments

Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

bbc.com · 123 points · 110 comments

Zeiss expands German site that caps ASML's EUV scanner output

tomshardware.com · 18 points · 0 comments

Physicists build a computer from 400 particles orbiting in liquid

tomshardware.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Open-source 3D-printed portable MRI machine built for under $70k

tomshardware.com · 12 points · 2 comments

Josh James selling Domo for $400M

deseret.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Silicon Valley Splits over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I

nytimes.com · 7 points · 3 comments

AMD publishes machine-readable ISA so frontier models can write its GPU kernels

theregister.com · 15 points · 0 comments

Apple seeks U.S. approval to buy memory chips from blacklisted CXMT

fortune.com · 37 points · 10 comments

HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)

7 points · 0 comments

ESP32-C6 Power Consumption: Arduino vs. Zephyr vs. ESP-IDF Comparison

qoitech.com · 11 points · 1 comments

Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem

aeon.co · 37 points · 15 comments

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

pytorch.org · 71 points · 6 comments

What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate?

xn--vk5b17r.online · 36 points · 16 comments