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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GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

bsky.app · 258 points · 200 comments

AROS, the FOSS Recreation of AmigaOS, Comes to Raspberry Pi

theregister.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

chipsandcheese.com · 77 points · 110 comments

URML – safety-eval harness for AI agents on lab and factory hardware

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

MicroSD card torture test reveal SanDisk as the outlier: 6 fails of the 7 tested

tomshardware.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Does anyone have a VRAM tester? Something like MemTest86+ but for GPUs?

5 points · 2 comments

Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash

bloodinthemachine.com · 77 points · 138 comments

Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference

artificialanalysis.ai · 82 points · 18 comments

Anthropic Announces Hardware Interface Standard (Model Hardware Standard, MHS)

twitter.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

news.bgov.com · 87 points · 40 comments

Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

anthropic.com · 42 points · 62 comments

PwnPad – hardware hacking platform built for practical learning

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Spore – run local models on your own hardware, use them from anywhere

sporeintel.com · 3 points · 2 comments

The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement

siliconcontinent.com · 47 points · 108 comments

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the End

alyssarosenzweig.ca · 35 points · 6 comments

PiLFS Linux from Scratch on the Raspberry Pi

intestinate.com · 11 points · 2 comments

Apple Silicon's Surprisingly Speedy SIMD

twitter.com · 11 points · 9 comments

Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads

theregister.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Why Is Everyone in Silicon Valley Talking Like That?

theatlantic.com · 9 points · 14 comments

Notificator – Send website events to push, email, MQTT and hardware

notificator-project.com · 2 points · 1 comments

A Thread-Register Decoupled GPU Execution Model for Efficient Tensor Computation

arxiv.org · 14 points · 0 comments

Ultrafast Frontier Inference – Cerebras Hot Chips 2026

cerebras.ai · 9 points · 0 comments

Silicon Valley Is Not Ambitious Enough

mayank-agrawal.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Highball – Run Windows games on Apple Silicon, with an open game db

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Intel Crescent Island GPU Flexes 32 Xe3P Cores, 480GB LPDDR5X for Agentic AI

hothardware.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Nvidia's Vera CPU outpaces AMD EPYC 9655P in Linux kernel compilation

cryptobriefing.com · 6 points · 2 comments

IBM announces chip that natively executes ARM and Z instructions concurrently

theregister.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Memory Ordering in CPUs

fgiesen.wordpress.com · 55 points · 7 comments

Xcena MX1 CXL Computational Memory Device at Hot Chips 2026 with Samsung

servethehome.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Adding CPU affinity in a 24-core build machine made builds take longer

infosec.exchange · 6 points · 0 comments