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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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China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines

reuters.com · 110 points · 118 comments

I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

select.supply · 99 points · 70 comments

Nvidia Accelerates Chip Engineering with AI Agents

nextplatform.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

github.com · 94 points · 21 comments

Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution

aistack.imec-int.com · 157 points · 47 comments

Teacher arrested for clapping in opposition at an AI data center meeting

tomshardware.com · 59 points · 16 comments

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT)

jcgt.org · 38 points · 11 comments

Gpuinstances.net, historical tracking for GPU prices across providers

gpuinstances.net · 3 points · 0 comments

Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 years ago – dethroned AMD Athlon

tomshardware.com · 14 points · 2 comments

A Backlash Against Anthropic Is Brewing in Silicon Valley

wsj.com · 10 points · 2 comments

Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors

bbc.com · 74 points · 52 comments

Manim (3Blue1Brown's animation engine) in the browser via WebGPU

studio.academa.ai · 48 points · 32 comments

Chip stocks tumble as AI sell-off deepens

ft.com · 36 points · 7 comments

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

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

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

github.com · 132 points · 46 comments

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

tomshardware.com · 11 points · 0 comments

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

github.com · 10 points · 10 comments

AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks

theguardian.com · 18 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 · 9 points · 0 comments

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

reuters.com · 10 points · 5 comments

Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide

rocm.blogs.amd.com · 71 points · 11 comments

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

macyou.co · 13 points · 4 comments

China begins mass production of homegrown DUV chipmaking tools

tomshardware.com · 8 points · 2 comments

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

chipsandcheese.com · 16 points · 0 comments

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

github.com · 10 points · 2 comments

China begins making homegrown DUV chipmaking tools

reuters.com · 14 points · 2 comments

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

techspot.com · 30 points · 30 comments

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

smoothbrains.net · 53 points · 111 comments