Hardware
AI Chip Design in Nine Months: What OpenAI's Jalapeño ASIC Proved
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip went from design code to tapeout in nine months. Here is what AI actually did, and what people still had to do.
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HardwareHard Drive Failure Rates in Q2 2026: What 354,415 Drives Show
Backblaze's Q2 2026 Drive Stats put the fleet at a 1.73% failure rate. Our recalculation shows age is the clearest signal in the data.
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HardwareWhat an NPU Actually Does: A Plain-English Guide to AI PC Chips
NPUs are now standard in new laptops. Here's what they actually do, how they differ from a CPU or GPU, and whether you should care.
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HardwareDocking Stations for a Multi-Monitor Home Office: What Actually Matters
Port count on the box means less than your laptop's video output standard. Here's what actually determines whether a dock will drive your monitors.
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TechZero-Water Data Center Cooling, Explained: Microsoft's Newest Region Uses Almost No Water to Cool
Air-cooled chillers instead of evaporative towers is a real engineering decision with a real cost. It moves the problem from the water bill to the power bill.
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HardwareXPeng's IRON Walked Off a Humanoid Robot Production Line. Here's What That Took.
A bipedal robot assembled on a fixed line, then walking away under its own control, is a manufacturing claim before it is a robotics one. The manufacturing part is the harder half.
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HardwareAlibaba Built a 500,000-Chip Cluster You Can't Buy. AI Chip Procurement Still Changes.
The Zhenwu V900 will not appear on a US purchase order. It still moves three things a buyer has to plan around: Nvidia China revenue, export control policy, and how long your accelerator contract should run.
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TechiPhone Ultra: The Crease Is Gone, and That's a Hinge Story
Apple's first foldable finally shipped without the visible crease that's dogged every other book-style phone. The software isn't why. The hinge is.
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TechThe AWS Bahrain Outage Nobody's DR Plan Was Ready For
AWS just told customers it can't recover data lost when regional infrastructure damage exceeded what its resiliency design was built to survive. Here's what 'regional redundancy' actually promises, and what it doesn't.