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Sonos Launches $299 Play Speaker and $189 Era 100 SL as First New Hardware Under CEO Tom Conrad Signals Post-App-Crisis Recovery
Sonos unveils the $299 Play portable speaker with 24-hour battery and Bluetooth grouping, and the $189 Era 100 SL without microphones, marking CEO Tom Conrad's first hardware launch after the app-crisis era.
Tesla Targets March 21 for Terafab Launch, Its $25 Billion Bid to Build the World's Largest AI Chip Factory
Tesla plans to formally launch its Terafab semiconductor facility on March 21, aiming to produce up to 200 billion custom AI chips annually at 2nm process technology.
Apple Ships MacBook Pro With M5 Pro and M5 Max, Delivering 4x AI Performance and a New Wireless Chip
Apple's MacBook Pro refreshed with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips offers up to 128GB unified memory, Thunderbolt 5, Wi-Fi 7, and claimed 4x AI gains over the previous generation, shipping March 11.
China Sets 70 Percent Chip Equipment Target for 2027 as Sanctions Drive the Largest Forced Localization in Semiconductor History
Beijing is mandating domestic sourcing for new fabs and racing to build an independent semiconductor equipment supply chain, with three Chinese firms now in the global top 20 and a prototype EUV machine reportedly under assembly.
AMD Launches Radeon RX 9070 XT With RDNA 4 Architecture, Matching RTX 5070 Ti at $599 Before Supply Collapses
AMD's first RDNA 4 graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, launched on March 6 at $549 and $599 with competitive rasterization performance, a machine-learning-powered FSR 4 upscaler, and 16 GB of VRAM — but sold out within hours as AMD described demand as 'unprecedented'.
ASML Looks Beyond Its EUV Monopoly, Plans Advanced Packaging and Larger-Die Tools for the AI Chip Era
ASML's CTO reveals plans to build packaging, bonding, and inspection tools that move the company beyond EUV lithography and into the broader AI semiconductor supply chain.
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.