Hardware stories
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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RSS feed for HardwareChip 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