OpenAI is developing a $200–$300 smart speaker with a built-in camera and facial recognition as its first hardware product, with over 200 employees dedicated to the project and a launch target of early 2027.
Unitree G1 kung fu robots captivate global audience at China's most-watched TV event, with company targeting 20,000 humanoid shipments in 2026.
Apple ramps up work on AI smart glasses, pendant, and camera-equipped AirPods powered by upgraded Siri with visual context capabilities.
Pittsburgh startup Efficient Computer secures $60M Series A for Electron E1 processor promising million-fold energy reduction for AI.
AI data center demand drives critical memory chip shortage, DRAM prices up 80-90%, supply-demand imbalance expected to persist through 2028.
Shanghai Jiao Tong and Tsinghua University researchers developed LightGen, a revolutionary all-optical computing chip with 2 million photonic neurons that processes AI workloads 100 times faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU.
Court filing reveals OpenAI drops 'io' trademark for hardware products expected in 2027, marking strategic shift in consumer AI device development plans.
Benchmark Capital commits $225 million to AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems in $1 billion Series H round, valuing the Nvidia rival at $23 billion ahead of Q2 2026 IPO.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has seen its stock jump 72% since the start of 2025, reaching 72% market share in contract semiconductor manufacturing. The company is planning $52-56 billion in capital expenditures for 2026 and raised its five-year compound annual growth rate outlook from 20% to 25%, driven by booming AI chip demand.
IBM Research introduces groundbreaking analog AI chip with 64 in-memory compute cores achieving 92.81% accuracy on CIFAR-10, offering superior energy efficiency.
An opinion piece in USA Today by an AI professor argues that the pursuit of AI superintelligence poses an existential risk to humanity. The author calls for international agreements to halt the production of advanced AI chips, highlighting the critical role of companies like TSMC and ASML in the AI hardware supply chain.
Tech giants invest heavily in AI-powered wearables including smart glasses and pendants, marking shift from software to physical AI devices.
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell has announced significant investments for 2026 in AI-enabled PCs, high-performance storage, and the Dell AI Factory, with the company projecting $25 billion in AI server shipments.
OpenAI is on track to unveil its first hardware device in the second half of 2026, a screenless, wearable AI gadget developed in partnership with former Apple designer Jony Ive.
A new report reveals that China deployed nearly 13,000 of the 16,000 humanoid robots installed globally in 2025, signaling a significant lead in the race for AI-driven robotics.
TechRadar covers DeepSeek's new Engram technique that separates static memory from computation, reducing expensive HBM requirements and addressing the global DRAM shortage.
