PsiQuantum turns its photonics know-how into an optical switch for supercharging AI data center GPU networks — 8×8 lab prototype loses less light than rivals, with plans to develop larger devices
Cadence has revealed Maestro, a suite of tuned LLM's, designed specifically to work in EDA flows using the company's in-house suite of agentic tools. We've covered the rise of agentic EDA tools closely, and Cadence's Maestro suite appears to be the company's own shot across the bow in helping its customers automate elements of their own chip designs. In initial results compared with general-purpose AI models, Cadence claims up to a 30% improvement in the quality of results and that Maestro effectively uses fewer tokens for the same task, with up to 5x the token efficiency compared to off-the-shelf AI models.
Cadence reveals Maestro, fine-tuned AI models built to run specialized chip design agents, with early access coming for 'select customers' in Q4 2026 — claims up to 30% higher quality results and up to 5x token efficiency over a general-purpose AI model
But all of those new AI chips have to come from somewhere. With the ongoing, ceaseless AI buildout, firms are looking to secure their supply chains, with Nvidia one of the chief companies among them. As demand continues to soar, the very real limitation of fabs is particularly highlighted in the realm of the substrates used to create PCBs. Ajinomoto Build-up Film, or ABF, is one of the hottest commodities in the chipmaking industry as a result, and Nvidia has announced plans to secure the material from Ibiden, in addition to other critical materials used in chip packaging, testing, and more. Of course, Nvidia isn't doing this out of the goodness of its own heart; it's doing it in exchange for reserved production capacity.
Nvidia is bankrolling AI accelerator supply chain buildout to reserve production capacity — announces billion-dollar deals with six major suppliers across substrates, advanced packaging, semiconductor testing, and optical engines
The ramifications of AI are still being felt across the globe, but if you've been on social media over the past several weeks, you may have found that there's one particular trend: Decompilation and recompilation of video games, recompiled to work natively on PCs. We detail how additional software tools like Reverse Engineer Anything and Ghidra are powering the boom.
Why native PC conversions of console games are suddenly everywhere — Reverse Engineer Anything gives AI agents a unified toolkit, and byte-for-byte checks keep hallucinations in line
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