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d-Matrix Moves Its Corsair Inference Accelerator Into Full Production, Betting On-Chip SRAM Beats the GPU at Decode
d-Matrix says its Corsair inference accelerator is in full production, pairing on-chip SRAM with GPUs to cut AI response times by more than 10x.
Illinois Team Stacks Three Layers of Silicon Transistors at 200°C, Reporting Near-Perfect Yields for Monolithic 3D Chips
A Nature study reports stacking three silicon transistor layers with 98-100% yields using bonding temperatures no higher than 200°C, offering a route to denser chips without smaller transistors.
TSMC Brings Its 'Super Power Rail' Backside Power to VLSI 2026, Claiming Up to 10% More Speed Over N2P as the Angstrom Era's Defining Feature Arrives
At the June 14-18 VLSI Symposium in Honolulu, TSMC details A16 with backside direct-contact power delivery, claiming 8-10% more speed or 15-20% less power versus N2P.
Snap Nears 2026 Consumer Launch of Standalone 'Specs' AR Glasses After Spinning Off a Subsidiary and Locking In a Multi-Year Qualcomm Snapdragon Deal
Snap is preparing a 2026 consumer launch of its standalone Specs AR glasses, having formed a dedicated subsidiary and signed a multi-year Qualcomm Snapdragon agreement.
SpacemiT Demos a 'Usably Quick' RISC-V Mini Desktop on Its 16-Core K3, as the Open Architecture Inches Toward Everyday Computing
At the Ubuntu Summit, SpacemiT showed its 16-core Key Stone K3 running Ubuntu responsively, with a Banana Pi board priced at roughly twice a Raspberry Pi 5.
Motorola Edge 70 Pro+ Launches in India at Rs 47,999 With a 50MP Periscope Telephoto and a 6,500mAh Silicon-Carbon Battery
Motorola's Edge 70 Pro+, a rebranded global Edge 70 Pro, arrives in India with a 3.5x periscope camera, a 5,200-nit display, and a silicon-carbon battery.
Intel Details Crescent Island Xe3P Inference GPU at Computex, Scaling to 480GB of LPDDR5X Without HBM
Intel's data-center inference GPU scales to 480GB of LPDDR5X in a 350W air-cooled PCIe card, sidestepping the HBM shortage that constrains Nvidia and AMD accelerators.
Intel's Diamond Rapids Xeon 7 Drops Hyperthreading for Up to 192 Performance Cores, Slated for 2027 on 18A-P
At Computex, Intel detailed its Diamond Rapids Xeon 7: up to 192 P-cores on 18A-P, 16 DDR5 channels and PCIe 6.0, but no Hyperthreading, arriving 2027.
Intel Launches Xeon 6+ 'Clearwater Forest' on 18A, Its First Data Center CPU on the New Node, With Up to 288 Cores
Intel's first 18A server chip ships with up to 288 Darkmont E-cores and 576 MB of L3 cache, claiming a 30% per-thread lead over AMD's 192-core EPYC 9965.
Lenovo's Motorized Auto Twist Laptop Reaches US Retail in June at $1,649, Moving a Self-Rotating OLED Hinge From Concept to Product
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist, a 14-inch OLED laptop whose motorized hinge rotates the screen to follow the user, goes on sale in the US in June 2026 starting at $1,649.
Samsung Unveils First HBM5 Mockup at Computex 2026, Putting Thermal Management at the Center of the Next AI Memory Race
At Computex 2026, Samsung showed its first HBM5 mockup with a 2nm base die and Heat Path Block cooling, with mass production not expected before 2028.
Atom Computing Demonstrates Sustained Toric-Code Error Correction on a Neutral-Atom Quantum Processor
The company reports the first full toric-code error-correction demonstration on neutral atoms, sustaining logical memory across up to 90 cycles by reloading lost qubits from a reservoir.