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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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6 articlesChips, devices, and the physical layer underneath the software everyone else is writing about.
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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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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.