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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.

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U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

tomshardware.com · 93 points · 153 comments

Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu's Monaka CPU – By Chester Lam

chipsandcheese.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Arduino Ventuno Q

arduino.cc · 3 points · 2 comments

DumpsterCluster: From Dumpster Diving to Serving Llama-70B on $60 GPUs

arxiv.org · 3 points · 0 comments

Spinifex – run EC2/S3/IAM/EKS on your own hardware, AWS CLI unchanged

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu's Monaka CPU

chipsandcheese.com · 11 points · 0 comments

The Qualcomm Oryon CPU is the first mobile CPU to reach 5GHz

qualcomm.com · 18 points · 8 comments

Memory Ordering in CPUs

fgiesen.wordpress.com · 21 points · 3 comments

Try Omarchy as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac

github.com · 6 points · 2 comments

CuMetal – Run CUDA Programs on Apple Silicon via Metal

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

HotChips 2026 Samsung LPDDR5X-PIM (processing-in-memory)

servethehome.com · 9 points · 1 comments

OpenAI claims its new chips can outperform Nvidia processors in tests

bloomberg.com · 16 points · 2 comments

Achieving Out of Order in My CPU

outercloud.dev · 4 points · 0 comments

Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics

dl.acm.org · 45 points · 4 comments

I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

github.com · 75 points · 68 comments

MNT Station – A modular, open hardware desktop computer and server

crowdsupply.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Decades-long Linux ownership dispute dead after Xinuos appeal rejected

tomshardware.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Intel Crescent Island 160GB to 480GB LPDDR5X AI GPU at Hot Chips 2026

servethehome.com · 5 points · 0 comments

CPU Shack – IBM PowerPC 615 x86 and PPC

cpushack.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Hot Chips 2026: Intel's Diamond Rapids

chipsandcheese.com · 16 points · 1 comments

Right-Sized Language Model

joecooper.me · 5 points · 2 comments

SiFive's First Server Platform

chipsandcheese.com · 29 points · 46 comments

IBM Z and LinuxONE Dual-ISA Processor and AI Acceleration at Hot Chips 2026

servethehome.com · 5 points · 0 comments

SK hynix runs out of replacement SSDs and defaults to purchase price refunds

tomshardware.com · 4 points · 2 comments

AMD Helios MI400 System Architecture at Hot Chips 2026

servethehome.com · 10 points · 2 comments

Rumoured Apple M5 Private Cloud Compute hardware surfaces online

twitter.com · 8 points · 3 comments

Nvidia Vera CPU at Hot Chips 2026 – ServeTheHome

servethehome.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage

techcrunch.com · 16 points · 7 comments

Intel's Wildcat Lake

chipsandcheese.com · 4 points · 5 comments

Intel Diamond Rapids the 2027 Intel Xeon at Hot Chips 2026 – ServeTheHome

servethehome.com · 4 points · 0 comments