Google Magic State Cultivation Explained: What Willow Fixed, What It Didn’t
Google's Science paper shows a 40-fold cut in magic state errors on its Willow chip, but only 8% of attempts survived and…
Hardware
Chips, memory, fabs and the supply chain that every AI promise runs on. From Nvidia’s roadmap to Intel’s fabs and the memory squeeze, we follow the hardware and the numbers behind it.
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Vicor’s New ITC Case Names 20 AI Server Suppliers. Five Lost to It in 2025
The Oct. 14 notice targets the power modules that sit directly under AI chips, and it names Foxconn, Quanta, Delta, Infineon and…
ASML Earnings: Record €11.7B Quarter, but It Can’t Build Enough Machines
ASML lifted its 2026 forecast to €44 billion to €45 billion and warned that planned 2027 and 2028 supply will fall short…
Microsoft Maia 300 Will Run Copilot From 2027. Check the Nvidia Math
Microsoft's third in-house AI chip claims 40% more tokens per megawatt than unnamed GPU systems and could ship by the million in…
TSMC Q3 Revenue Beat Its Forecast: What to Watch in ASML and TSMC Earnings
TSMC's September sales of NT$511.86 billion pushed Q3 to about US$46.7 billion, above its own guidance. ASML reports Oct. 14 and TSMC…
Surface Laptop Ultra UK Price Is £2,599. Here’s the Real British Markup
Microsoft charges £2,599 in Britain and US$2,599.99 in the US. Once VAT comes out, Britons pay about 12% more, and they miss…
National Medal of Science Goes to Musk, Brin, Huang and Su. Nvidia Pledged US$1B
Trump gave the US's top science honour to four tech executives and its technology medal to Nadella and Dell on Oct. 8.…
Samsung Q3 Profit Hits a Record US$80 Billion as Galaxy Prices Climb
Samsung's Oct. 8 guidance puts third-quarter operating profit at about 107.4 trillion won, nearly nine times last year's, almost all of it…
Surface Laptop Ultra Is CA$3,899.99 in Canada. Here’s the Real Markup
The CA$1,300 gap to the US price shrinks to about CA$286 once you convert currency. The bigger catch: the base model has…
Depth Cameras, Lidar and Cognex’s US$500M Bet on Robot Eyes, Explained
Cognex is buying RealSense, the 3D-camera business Intel spun out in 2025. Here's how stereo, structured light, time-of-flight and lidar differ, and…