Hardware & Semiconductors

Eric Migicovsky's rePebble introduces the Index 01, a battery-free smart ring that captures voice notes with a button press, skipping health tracking and subscriptions entirely.

NVIDIA VP Ian Buck personally delivered the first production Vera CPU systems to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle in California, marking the commercial arrival of NVIDIA's first purpose-built agentic AI processor.

Sony's 1000X THE COLLEXION launches at $649.99 on the series' 10th anniversary, featuring 12-mic ANC, Edge-AI audio upscaling, and luxury materials.

Google Quantum AI and Google.org are funding five universities to develop quantum sensors and algorithms for molecular biology, targeting drug discovery and human health.

Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII on May 13, 2026, with a new square camera island, a 48MP triple-camera system with a telephoto sensor four times larger than its predecessor, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and Wi-Fi 7 — while keeping the 3.5mm headphone jack and microSD slot rivals have abandoned.

ETH Zurich researchers published a Nature paper demonstrating noise-resistant geometric-phase swap gates for neutral-atom qubits, achieving 99.91% fidelity simultaneously across 17,000 qubit pairs in under a millisecond.

Walmart's budget Onn brand launched six Android 16 tablets on May 18, from a $97 7-inch entry model to a $288 13-inch Pro with bundled stylus and secondary-monitor support.

Nearly 45,000 Samsung workers plan an 18-day walkout from May 21 after talks collapsed over the 50% bonus cap and a 15% operating-profit share, putting HBM4 supply at risk.

ASML will supply the lithography toolset for Tata's Dholera 300mm fab, which Tata Electronics has costed at US$11 billion and aimed at 28nm-110nm chips for AI, automotive and mobile applications.

AI chipmaker Cerebras priced its IPO $25 above the upgraded range on May 13, opened at $350 on Nasdaq the next morning, and closed its first session at $311.07 before slipping roughly 10% on Friday.

Researchers led by Leibniz Hannover, Stuttgart, and Nanjing have published the first time-bin QKD link driven by an on-demand telecom quantum dot, holding stable across 120 km of standard fiber for six hours straight.

A 120-qubit simulation finished in two minutes versus more than 100 hours classically, with the team also reporting direct observation of spin-charge separation on 62 qubits.