Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers

The entire video is fascinating and information-dense, so we suggest you watch it to get the complete picture. Hartensveld started off with gallium nitride atop a sapphire wafer, that he proceeded to break into shards an…

Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRA

Mounting the wafer-scale engines vertically in the backpack modules lets Cerebras do away with a PCB or substrate for the wafer to handle all its supporting infrastructure. Instead, the backpack connects the large copper…

Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers

The entire video is fascinating and information-dense, so we suggest you watch it to get the complete picture. Hartensveld started off with gallium nitride atop a sapphire wafer, that he proceeded to break into shards an…

Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report claims — could strengthen Nvidia’s open-model strategy and shore up position against rivals

If Nvidia proceeds with the takeover, the transaction will be a part of Nvidia’s increasingly aggressive investments across the AI ecosystem that spans from hardware to models to software. Last week, Nvidia agreed to pay…