Terafab: what Tesla and SpaceX’s $16.8B first phase buys
Grimes County sits an hour northwest of Houston and it's mostly ranch land. It now has a $30 million state grant and a plan for the largest building on the ...
Tag: hardware
Anthropic’s custom silicon team: no chip, no timeline
Six job listings. That's most of the announcement, and honestly it's more informative than the headlines stacked on top of it. On 5 August Anthropic confirmed it's building a custom ...
MacBook Air M5 shortage: $1,299 and a six week wait
You go to order six Airs for the new starters, and the checkout says late September. That's roughly where this is: Apple put the MacBook Air up $200 in June, ...
Qualcomm’s double-digit chip price rise starts September 1
Your September quote for a batch of Android handsets comes back higher than the August one, and the line that moved isn't memory this time. On 29 July Qualcomm confirmed ...
Seagate 50TB HAMR drives: 2028, not 2027
Every headline this week put 50TB in the title, which is fair, because a ten platter drive holding fifty terabytes is a genuinely absurd object. Read the actual timing though ...
FCC robot ban: the 4.4 lb rule that catches vacuums
Your robot vacuum still works. Worth saying first, because the headlines this week read like the US outlawed robots, and plenty of people went and looked at their hallway. What ...
Nvidia SSI deal: $5B reported, 10x compute on Vera Rubin
A four-line post on X, from an account that had barely spoken in two years. That's how the biggest number in this week's AI coverage got loose. On 27 July, ...
The Pixel 11 price rise is 4.3x on RAM, not sixfold
You go to re-quote a laptop refresh you scoped in January, and the same machine comes back a fifth dearer. That is the crunch Google just used, on the record, ...
Tesla Optimus V3: production starts, reveal still missing
Picture a factory floor in Fremont where the last Model S rolled off in early May, now filling up with tooling for a machine nobody outside Tesla has laid eyes ...
SK and NVIDIA signed letters of intent, not a $500B deal
Three deals landed in one afternoon at a San Francisco hotel, and the biggest number came with the least paperwork. On July 24 SK Group and NVIDIA announced plans for ...