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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A Heterogeneous System-on-Chip with an 83 GFLOp/s, 1.2 TFLOp/s/W

ieeexplore.ieee.org · 3 points · 0 comments

Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

apple.com · 20 points · 3 comments

Open-Source Firmware for PicoCalc/Cardputer/Video Game Module/ESP32/Raspberry

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Modder builds 8,192-core GPU at home out of RISC-V microcontrollers

tomshardware.com · 10 points · 0 comments

I wrote a 1-bit WebGPU runtime to run a 1.7B LLM in the browser

aidekin.com · 5 points · 2 comments

A free, GPU-accelerated Texas Hold'em GTO solver in C++/CUDA

bupticybee.github.io · 4 points · 2 comments

L9gpu – GPU telemetry that ties each GPU to the K8s pod or Slurm job

github.com · 20 points · 0 comments

Branchless-nccl-router ver.JAX (GPUs cannot rest)

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Silicon Physics Sandbox

silicon.bergkv.ist · 6 points · 0 comments

Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

tomshardware.com · 134 points · 35 comments

A GPUdriven voxel engine with binary greedy meshing & indirectrendering

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip

networkworld.com · 10 points · 1 comments

How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner

mydiplomaticlife.com · 55 points · 86 comments

The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming

geastack.com · 100 points · 87 comments

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

arnaud-carre.github.io · 113 points · 46 comments