AI hardware news — GPUs, TPUs, custom AI chips, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and the infrastructure powering large-scale model training and inference.
Arm's Cortex X925 is a high-performance CPU core designed to compete with desktop-class processors from AMD and Intel, achieving performance parity with AMD's Zen 5 and Intel's Lion Cove in Nvidia's GB10 chip. The core f…
A user assembled a miniature Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi Pico running Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware. The build outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz and supports a USB keyboard and mouse. Despite the Pico's …
The article describes the author's 2024 project of building a local, cloud-free Pi-based surveillance server using Frigate and a Coral TPU, housed in a rack-mounted Axzez Interceptor case. The author now aims to downsize…
The article explains that macOS 26 Tahoe's Disk Utility no longer includes the "Security Options" button for securely erasing hard drives, a feature present in earlier versions. To perform secure erases (such as zero-fil…
The article discusses the 80386 processor's improved protection model, which added paging, a flat 32-bit address space, and Virtual 8086 mode to make protected mode usable after the 80286's unpopular implementation. It e…
The article summarizes the author's experience purchasing and setting up a BATLEXP G350 retro gaming handheld. Key steps included replacing the stock operating system and ROMs, installing PortMaster for additional games,…
This article provides a guide for configuring the Frigate security camera software to use a Hailo AI coprocessor (such as the Hailo-8 or Hailo-8L on a Raspberry Pi 5) for object detection. The author details the installa…
The Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor determined whether an instruction was intended for it by monitoring the computer's bus via its Bus Interface Unit (BIU) for specific "ESCAPE" opcodes assigned to the coprocessor.…
Comprehensive guide for setting up a Windows 11 virtual machine with GPU passthrough and Looking Glass on an Arch-based Linux system using a Wayland compositor. It explains the architecture behind Looking Glass, which ac…
The author announces that their band, The Stop Bits, will perform at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal on February 14, 2026, in Orange, CA. They also introduce a new subscription preference system for their newsletter,…
The article describes the author's project to build an 80386-compatible processor core in SystemVerilog using original Intel microcode, with real mode operational and over 10,000 test cases passing. It highlights that th…
The Arm Cortex A725 is a 5-wide out-of-order core designed for density-optimized performance, serving as the latest in Arm's 7-series line. It is featured in Nvidia's GB10 SoC, which pairs ten A725 cores with ten high-pe…
The article describes the author's project to set up Home Assistant (HA) on a Raspberry Pi for home automation, including a panic button for his elderly father. After installation, the author encountered a DNS issue wher…
The Intel 80386, released in 1985, was the first 32-bit x86 processor, introducing a flat 4GB address space, virtual memory with paging, and an effective protected mode. It significantly improved arithmetic performance o…
The Intel 8086, introduced in 1978, is a 16-bit processor whose arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) performs 28 operations, including addition, subtraction, and bitwise logic. The ALU is controlled by a combination of microcode …
The article describes how the author built four complete games for the Playdate handheld console in a single afternoon using AI (Claude in Cursor). The author attributes the success to the console's 1-bit black-and-white…
The article traces the evolution of personal computing from the early days of "home computers" used for gaming and simple tasks to the modern era of centralized platforms. It argues that while early software landscapes w…
At CES 2026, AMD unveiled the silicon for its upcoming Venice server CPUs and MI400 series datacenter accelerators, showcasing new packaging technologies. The Venice CPU features 256 Zen 6 cores across eight CCDs and two…
In an interview at Qualcomm’s architecture day, GPU team lead Eric Demers detailed the upcoming Adreno X2 GPU, highlighting its improved performance-per-watt over the X1 generation and full support for DirectX 12.2 Ultim…
This article describes a method to run OpenGL 4.6 applications, specifically Minecraft, on macOS by translating OpenGL calls through a chain of graphics APIs: OpenGL → Vulkan → Metal. The process uses Mesa's Zink driver …