ai hardware

Moore Threads’ move from raw silicon to developer tooling marks a deliberate pivot in China’s AI hardware renaissance, and its new AI Coding Plan — built on the MTT S5000 GPU and a fully domestic hardware-to-model stack — is as much a commercial gambit as it is a geopolitical statement about...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 lands as a sharp, strategic pivot: a purpose-built inference ASIC that promises to cut the cost of running generative AI at scale while reshaping how hyperscalers balance silicon, software and data-center systems. Announced on January 26, 2026, Microsoft describes Maia 200...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 marks a decisive step in the company’s push to own the full AI stack — a custom inference accelerator designed to deliver faster token-generation, higher utilization, and lower operating cost for large-scale AI deployed across Azure and Microsoft services such as Microsoft...

Microsoft’s revelation that its Maia 200 inference accelerator pairs a mammoth 216 GB of on‑package HBM3E with the claim that SK hynix is the exclusive supplier has sent shockwaves through the AI memory market and escalated the Korea‑based rivalry over high‑performance HBM for hyperscaler ASICs...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 is not a tweak to existing cloud hardware — it’s a full‑scale push to redesign how one of the world’s biggest hyperscalers runs large models, and it accelerates a tectonic shift away from the single‑vendor GPU era toward vertically integrated AI stacks built by the cloud...

Microsoft’s new Maia 200 AI accelerator is the clearest, most consequential signal yet that hyperscalers are moving from being buyers of GPU capacity to builders of their own inference infrastructure — and Microsoft says it built Maia 200 to blunt its dependence on Nvidia by lowering per‑token...

Microsoft is rolling Copilot Vision into Windows — a permissioned, session‑based capability that lets the Copilot app “see” one or two app windows or a shared desktop region and provide contextual, step‑by‑step help, highlights that point to UI elements, and multimodal responses (voice or typed)...

PCMag’s “All About AI” series distills a messy, fast-moving industry pivot into a practical playbook for buyers, explaining why the new class of AI-capable PCs matters, what the hardware metrics actually mean, and which Windows features are likely to change day-to-day workflows. Background /...

Razer’s CES presence this year felt less like the steady stream of incremental peripherals and more like a series of bold experiments: a desk-sized holographic AI companion that actually speaks and moves, smart headphones with first-person cameras that promise continuous AI assistance, an...

HP’s CES 2026 slate reframes the PC not as a single device but as a distributed, Copilot‑enabled ecosystem — from a full Windows PC inside a keyboard to 85‑TOPS NPUs across business and consumer notebooks, printer‑side Copilot integrations, and a unified gaming brand — a coordinated push to make...

HP’s OmniBook Ultra 14 is less a single product and more a statement: a supremely thin, Copilot+‑ready ultraportable that pairs Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 Elite silicon (in an HP‑exclusive variant) with a high‑fidelity 2,880 × 1,800 OLED panel, an integrated vapor‑chamber cooling system...

NVIDIA’s new Rubin platform, unveiled at CES 2026, promises to redraw the economics and architecture of large-scale inference and agentic AI by combining a six‑chip, rack‑scale co‑design with a new AI‑native storage layer — and with headline claims of up to 10× lower inference cost and...

Dell has quietly but unmistakably bowed to a chorus of criticism and brought the XPS name back into its premium laptop lineup — this time with a full redesign that pairs a more conventional, user-friendly input layout with modern AI-ready silicon and a renewed focus on build quality and battery...

LG’s return to the Wallpaper concept at CES with a 9mm‑class, True Wireless OLED — the LG OLED evo W6 — reintroduces one of the most design‑forward TV ideas of the last decade while packing modern brightness, AI smarts and a wireless “Zero Connect Box” that promises visually lossless 4K video up...

Now that the confetti has settled on the holidays, CES 2026 is ready to prove an argument that felt half-theoretical a year ago: AI is no longer a single feature on a product spec sheet — it’s the new substrate of consumer electronics, from the silicon inside laptops to the LEDs behind your...

2025 began as another year of incremental gadget refreshes and closed 12 months later with an unmistakable industry diagnosis: we had collectively slopified our devices. What started as earnest experiments in generative assistance, on-device inference, and conversation-driven UIs became, for...

2025 closed as an unmistakable inflection point: a year when the tech industry deliberately pruned entire product families, retired long‑running services, and folded experiments into larger platforms — moves driven by AI readiness, cost discipline, regulatory standardization, and changing user...

Olares One lands as a striking proof‑of‑concept: a 3.5‑litre mini PC that packs laptop‑class flagship silicon, a top‑tier mobile GPU and workstation‑class memory into a palmable chassis — but it also surfaces uncomfortable questions about software compatibility, long‑term reliability and the...

Microsoft’s next big Windows moment—widely referred to in leaks and forum chatter as “Windows 12”—remains, for now, an industry rumor rather than an announced product, but the timing of Windows 10’s end-of-support and Microsoft’s public push for AI‑ready hardware have created fertile ground for...

Microsoft’s hardware strategy appears to be entering a new phase: industry reports say the company is in advanced talks with Broadcom to co-develop custom AI chips for Azure, a move that could recalibrate supplier relationships, ease capacity constraints for large-scale inference workloads, and...