Semiconductors & Hardware

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1734+ words) Earlier this week, Apple announced this year's batch of new iPhone models: the all-new folding iPhone Duo, and the iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max. Every other site on the Internet will be talking about the incredible folding screen on the Duo,…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (168+ words) Apple has introduced its new in-house C2 modem in the iPhone 18 Pro, and the US specifications list support for the n258, n260 and n261 mmWave bands, marking the first time Apple's C-series modem has crossed the mmWave threshold. Apple cracks mmWave with C2, weakening Qualcomm's…...

23+ hour, 21+ min ago   (354+ words) Omarchy M is targeting M1 and M2 Macs with a native installer, GPU support, Touch ID, external displays, disk encryption and MLX. Omarchy M is the new team behind Omarchy’s push to bring its Linux desktop to Apple Silicon Macs, with M1 and M2 machines…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (198+ words) We benchmark scikit-learn and cuML implementations of PCA, K-Means, nearest neighbors, logistic regression, random forests, and DBSCAN. We generate datasets on the GPU, synchronize CUDA operations for fair timing, and record the speedup each accelerated algorithm achieves. We also compare…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago   (273+ words) Look closely and you can tell them apart. Many electronics users have felt the wave of panic that comes with trying to wipe away a mark on their screen, only to realize it's actually an issue with the screen itself....

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (698+ words) Perovskite solar cells have spent more than a decade rewriting the record books, but the most valuable real estate in these devices has always been the interface, the razor-thin boundary where the light-absorbing perovskite layer meets the contacts that siphon…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (34+ words) Alas, We Don’t Know What They Can Experience. For decades, we imagined the disturbing future as a machine becoming alive. A computer would grow more …...

7+ hour, 11+ min ago   (203+ words) This week, d-Matrix and NVIDIA had a big announcement. The companies announced that d-Matrix would bring its next-generation XPUs to the NVLink Fusion platform. A closer look at the announcement revealed a few interesting details. We covered the d-Matrix Raptor…...

4+ hour, 15+ min ago   (522+ words) Packaging has always been a quiet workhorse of the modern food system. It tells us where a product came from, when it was made, what ingredients it contains, and how many calories it carries. But a team of researchers at…...

4+ hour, 15+ min ago   (625+ words) Silicon has long dominated the solar industry, but its fundamental physics imposes hard limits on how much sunlight a single-junction cell can convert into electricity. Photons with less energy than silicon’s band gap simply pass through the material, while photons…...