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HP unveils Dimension, the first hardware built with Google's 3D video conferencing tech, featuring a 65-inch light field display, launching in 2025 for $25,000 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684859/hp-dimension-google-b…

HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam
HP has revealed the first third-party hardware built using Google’s 3D video conferencing technology, Beam. The HP Dimension costs $24,999 and features a 65-inch light field display to create a “true-to-life” 3D video of your caller.

'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
The harder nations push for AI independence, the deeper their dependencies become.

All this time their computers have been running Win95...
FAA To Eliminate Floppy Disks Used In Air Traffic Control Systems - Slashdot
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/2249232/faa-to-eliminate-floppy-disks-used-in-air-traffic-control-systems

my annoying engineering trait is that i don't like hardware abstraction layers
they're usually irritating to write code for, and equally irritating to reverse-engineer whenever i need to. i mostly end up reverse-engineering these days

Hardware Limitations and Optimization Approach in 1-Bit RIS Design at 28 GHz
Hossein Rezaei, Mehmet Emin Arslan, George Yammine, Niels Neumann, Norman Franchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08930

Hardware Limitations and Optimization Approach in 1-Bit RIS Design at 28 GHz
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a transformative technology for electromagnetic (EM) wave manipulation, offering unprecedented control over wave reflections compared to traditional metallic reflectors. By utilizing an array of tunable elements, RIS can steer and shape electromagnetic waves to enhance signal quality in wireless communication and radar systems. However, practical implementations face significant challenges due to hardware limitations and phase quantizati…

VeriLoC: Line-of-Code Level Prediction of Hardware Design Quality from Verilog Code
Raghu Vamshi Hemadri, Jitendra Bhandari, Johann Knechtel, Badri P Gopalan, Ramesh Narayanaswamy, Ramesh Karri, Siddharth Garg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07239

VeriLoC: Line-of-Code Level Prediction of Hardware Design Quality from Verilog Code
Modern chip design is complex, and there is a crucial need for early-stage prediction of key design-quality metrics like timing and routing congestion directly from Verilog code (a commonly used programming language for hardware design). It is especially important yet complex to predict individual lines of code that cause timing violations or downstream routing congestion. Prior works have tried approaches like converting Verilog into an intermediate graph representation and using LLM embedding…

BOFH excuse #38:
secretary plugged hairdryer into UPS

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20302 has been replaced.
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VeriThoughts: Enabling Automated Verilog Code Generation using Reasoning and Formal Verification
This paper introduces VeriThoughts, a novel dataset designed for reasoning-based Verilog code generation. We establish a new benchmark framework grounded in formal verification methods to evaluate the quality and correctness of generated hardware descriptions. Additionally, we present a suite of specialized small-scale models optimized specifically for Verilog generation. Our work addresses the growing need for automated hardware design tools that can produce verifiably correct implementations …

Nintendo says it sold 3.5M Switch 2 consoles globally in its first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026 (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

STI-SNN: A 0.14 GOPS/W/PE Single-Timestep Inference FPGA-based SNN Accelerator with Algorithm and Hardware Co-Design
Kainan Wang, Chengyi Yang, Chengting Yu, Yee Sin Ang, Bo Wang, Aili Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08842

STI-SNN: A 0.14 GOPS/W/PE Single-Timestep Inference FPGA-based SNN Accelerator with Algorithm and Hardware Co-Design
Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted attention for their event-driven characteristics and high energy efficiency. However, the temporal dependency and irregularity of spikes present significant challenges for hardware parallel processing and data reuse, leading to some existing accelerators falling short in processing latency and energy efficiency. To overcome these challenges, we introduce the STI-SNN accelerator, designed for resource-constrained applications with high…