SpaceX’s $119B Terafab Chip Bet: Desperation or Vision?
SpaceX filed plans this week for a $55 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas. The total investment could hit $119 billion. Elon Musk ...
Meshtastic Mesh Networking: Developer Guide to Off-Grid LoRa (2026)
Meshtastic hit #5 on Hacker News today with 384 points. This open-source project turns $20-50 ...
AI Chip Shortage Crashes Consumer Hardware: 70% to Data Centers
AI data centers consuming 70% of memory chips crash consumer hardware markets. PC sales drop ...
QuantWare Raises $178M for 10,000-Qubit Quantum Processors
QuantWare secured $178M from Intel Capital for 10,000-qubit processors. The quantum chip foundry is bringing ...
EU Battery Law Loophole: 1,000-Cycle Exemption Lets Apple Skip Removable Batteries
The EU’s new battery regulation takes effect February 18, 2027, mandating “readily removable” smartphone batteries. ...
CATL’s 60 GWh Sodium-Ion Deal: Grid Storage’s Cost Shift
CATL's 60 GWh sodium-ion battery deal signals mass production era. 30-40% cheaper than lithium, targeting grid storage. Mass production begins Q4 2026.
TI-84 Evo: The $160 Calculator Nobody Asked For in 2026
Texas Instruments just launched the TI-84 Evo — a $160 graphing calculator with no WiFi, ...
Majestic Labs Tackles AI’s Memory Wall with 128TB Server
AI infrastructure spending is racing toward $600 billion in 2026, but while the industry obsesses ...
Google TPU 8t & 8i: Training-Inference Chip Split
Google unveiled its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units at Cloud Next 2026, splitting them into two ...
TSMC Dominates 71% of Chip Foundry Market in 2026
TSMC captured 71% of the semiconductor foundry market in 2026 while growing 4x faster than ...