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…

Commodore unveils striking Cyberpunk 2077 version of its C64U made in partnership with CD Projekt Red — Commodore 77 special edition uses more powerful AMD Arti

Watch On Commodore says that the C77 is the first franchise hardware partnership in the firm’s 68-year history. “I have been a fan of the game since its release, and it was rewarding to learn in my discussions with their…

Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia presents Groq 3 LPX architecture and unveils its first third-party inference benchmark — LP30-based rack already in production, company s

A Rubin GPU carries 288GB of HBM4 , roughly 576 times the memory of a single LP30, so a 31-billion-parameter model at FP8 needs on the order of 62 LPUs to hold its weights, and a large mixture-of-experts model runs into …

China’s YMTC aims to become the world’s largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

YMTC’s listing turns that position into a funding mechanism. Margins earned at the top of the memory cycle are already paying for domestic tool development, and the IPO adds a capital source that sits outside the reach o…