Gaming Hardware The Neo Geo AES is coming back, right down to real cartridge support Just like in the good old days, Neo Geo is providing arcade authenticity to affluent gamers By Alfonso Maruccia, July 29, 2026, 1:32 PM
Tech Culture Electronics Lego unveils Smart Bricks, a computer that fits inside a standard 2 x 4 brick The debut Star Wars models introduce NFC, sensors, and wireless capabilities By Skye Jacobs, January 6, 2026, 8:52 AM
Hardware AI MediaTek is shifting from smartphone chips toward a billion-dollar bet on AI ASICs A deeper partnership with Google as next-gen TPU enters volume production By Skye Jacobs, January 5, 2026, 9:04 AM
Hardware Industry Opinion: Are we nearing the peak of custom ASIC adoption? Have we reached the high-water mark of custom silicon? Not yet, but we can likely see it from here. By Jonathan Goldberg, May 5, 2025, 12:40 PM
Hardware AI OpenAI custom chip project aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance Unconfirmed collaboration with Broadcom is quietly bearing fruit By Alfonso Maruccia, February 11, 2025, 4:23 PM
AI Gaming Oasis is an interactive AI experience that turns Minecraft into a nightmarish hallucination The developer hopes that, over time, the model can help game makers create content faster By Alfonso Maruccia, November 5, 2024, 3:18 PM
Hardware Google The end of Moore's law forced YouTube to make its own video chip YouTube now controls its hardware roadmap By Shawn Knight, August 26, 2022, 11:15 AM 12 comments
Hardware Intel starts shipping its Bitcoin mining rig as cryptocurrencies crash Good job guys By Isaiah Mayersen, July 2, 2022, 11:21 AM 28 comments
Hardware Industry Intel launches second-gen Blockscale ASIC for Bitcoin mining The silicon giant says it won't affect CPU and GPU manufacturing By Adrian Potoroaca, April 5, 2022, 11:16 AM
Hardware Industry Intel unveils 3,600-watt ASIC Bitcoin mining rig The company's first mining rig is capable of up to 40 terahashes per second By Adrian Potoroaca, February 21, 2022, 12:44 PM 27 comments
Industry Bitmain places orders for 5nm mining chips with TSMC Could it impact production of other 5nm chips? By Rob Thubron, May 7, 2021, 6:55 AM 7 comments
Industry Intel acquires eASIC to diversify beyond CPUs New hybrid of FPGAs and ASICs to be built using shared intellectual property By Greg Synek, July 13, 2018, 8:40 AM
Industry Hardware Facebook is hiring a team to design its own custom microchips Mentions of AI, compression, and video encoding applications By Greg Synek, April 19, 2018, 10:46 AM
Industry Bitcoin mining rewards cut in half to curb inflation By Shawn Knight, July 11, 2016, 10:30 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry Ex-NASA chief's neural computing startup reveals 256-core processor and voice recognition system By Rob Thubron, June 7, 2016, 10:00 AM
Hardware Google Google built its own processor to power machine learning By Shawn Knight, May 19, 2016, 7:30 AM