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…

SpaceXAI will deploy standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs for Grok’s agentic workloads — will use optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 in space with Starmind satellite

Agents spend much of their runtime off the GPU. A model that writes code, for example, calls tools, queries databases, and parses results by leaning on the host CPU between every inference pass; idle GPUs waiting on that…

Decades-long Linux ownership dispute effectively dead after Xinuos appeal rejected — US Court of Appeals halts the legal wrangling over IBM’s and Red Hat’s use

Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom’s Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason. “,”collapsible”:{“enabled”:true,”maxHeight…

US gov’t moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits withou

Paul Revere Admin said: A proposed change to the EPA’s regulations would remove the requirement for states to seek public input on air pollution permits, particularly around AI data centers. U.S. gov’t moves to suppress …