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NVIDIA Invests $4 Billion in Lumentum and Coherent as Photonics Emerges as AI's Next Supply Chain Bottleneck
NVIDIA pours $2 billion each into photonics makers Lumentum and Coherent, signaling that optical interconnects are becoming as critical to AI scaling as GPUs.
Apple Unveils $599 MacBook Neo With iPhone Chip, Its Cheapest Laptop Ever and a Direct Challenge to Chromebooks
Apple announces the MacBook Neo at $599, the first Mac powered by an iPhone A18 Pro chip, targeting the budget laptop market dominated by Chromebooks and low-cost Windows machines.
Qualcomm Launches First Wi-Fi 8 Chip at MWC 2026 as 40-Company Coalition Commits to 6G by 2029
Qualcomm's FastConnect 8800 doubles Wi-Fi speeds to 11.6 Gbps while a 40-company coalition including Ericsson, Google, and Microsoft formally targets 6G commercialization starting 2029.
Apple Kicks Off Its Biggest Product Week of 2026 With Six Devices Spanning iPhone, Mac, and iPad
Apple begins staggered press-release launches on March 2, culminating in a hands-on media experience on March 4, delivering its most comprehensive hardware refresh in years.
Neutral Atom Quantum Computers Enter the Error-Correction Era as QuEra, Microsoft, and Pasqal Deploy Commercial Systems in 2026
2026 marks the transition from noisy quantum experiments to error-corrected commercial systems, with neutral atom platforms from QuEra, Atom Computing, and Pasqal leading the charge.
Scientists Achieve First Real-Time Readout of Majorana Qubits, Clearing a Key Hurdle for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Researchers at Delft and CSIC Madrid have demonstrated single-shot parity readout of Majorana qubits in Nature, solving a decades-long measurement problem.
Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Lab Demonstrate In-Vacuum Cryoelectronics for Ion-Trap Quantum Computers, Opening Path to Tens of Thousands of Qubits
A DOE-backed proof-of-concept integrates cryogenic control chips directly into ion traps, potentially removing a key bottleneck blocking large-scale quantum computers.
Samsung Unveils Galaxy S26 Series at Unpacked 2026: Privacy Display, Agentic AI, and a $100 Price Hike
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series at Unpacked 2026, with the Ultra debuting the mobile industry's first built-in Privacy Display and agentic AI features, as base prices rise $100 due to RAM shortages.
Europe's First Academic RISC-V Chip on Intel 3 Node Passes Validation as Open Silicon Hits 25 Percent Market Share
Barcelona Zettascale Lab's Cinco Ranch TC1, a three-core RISC-V chip fabricated on Intel's 3nm process, has passed validation testing, marking a milestone in Europe's push for semiconductor sovereignty.
Cisco and Qunnect Demonstrate First Metro-Scale Quantum Entanglement Network Across New York City
Cisco and Qunnect achieved first metro-scale quantum entanglement swapping over 17.6 km of commercial NYC fiber, surpassing previous benchmarks by 10,000x.
Microsoft's Project Silica Stores 4.8 Terabytes in a Glass Slab That Could Last 10,000 Years
Microsoft Research published a Nature paper showing ordinary borosilicate glass can store 4.8 TB of data for over 10,000 years, extending its Project Silica archival storage technology to everyday materials.
Delft Researchers Crack the Readout Problem for Majorana Qubits, Reviving the Case for Topological Quantum Computing
A QuTech team achieves first single-shot parity readout of Majorana qubits using quantum capacitance, demonstrating millisecond coherence and solving a key bottleneck for topological quantum computers.