Eclipse Raises $1.3B to Back and Build Physical AI
Eclipse Ventures closed two funds totaling $1.3B to build and back physical AI companies in robotics, defense, and manufacturing as investor conviction shifts from software to machines.
Articles Tagged "Hardware"
Meta's KernelEvolve Automates Kernel Tuning in Production
Meta's KernelEvolve AI agent autonomously generates and optimizes hardware kernels across NVIDIA, AMD, and MTIA chips, delivering over 60% inference gains in production.
Arm Claims Agents Need New Silicon - Intel Disagrees
Arm says its 136-core AGI CPU is purpose-built for agentic AI workloads. Intel's data center chief - Arm's former head of solutions engineering - says the claim overstates what's actually new.
Arm Launches AGI CPU, Its First Chip in 35 Years
At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm unveiled the AGI CPU - a 136-core data center processor co-developed with Meta and the company's first owned silicon product in its 35-year history.
Alibaba's C950 - First RISC-V CPU with Native LLM Inference
Alibaba's T-Head division launched the XuanTie C950, a 5nm 3.2GHz RISC-V server chip that sets a new world record for RISC-V single-core performance and natively runs billion-parameter models like DeepSeek V3 and Qwen3.
Inside Amazon's Trainium Lab - How It Beat NVIDIA
An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.
Supermicro SVP Charged in $2.5B Nvidia Chip Scheme
Federal prosecutors indicted Supermicro's co-founder and SVP along with two associates for smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI accelerator servers to China using fake hardware and stripped serial numbers.
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B: NVIDIA Edge Model Runs on 8GB
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano 4B packs a Mamba-dominant hybrid architecture, 262K token context, and 95.4% on MATH500 into a model that fits an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano.
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Arrives at GTC 2026 With 6 Chips
NVIDIA opens GTC 2026 with the Vera Rubin platform - six co-designed chips delivering 50 PFLOPS of inference per GPU and 10x lower token cost than Blackwell.
Meta Unveils Four MTIA Chip Generations in Two Years
Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.
Figure AI Helix 02 - Musk Asks if It's Autonomous
Figure AI's Helix 02 robot went viral cleaning a living room on March 9 - then Elon Musk publicly questioned whether the demo was really autonomous.
MacBook Neo: Apple's iPhone Chip Lands in a $599 Mac
Apple's cheapest Mac ever packs the A18 Pro iPhone chip with a 16-core Neural Engine - but its 60 GB/s memory bandwidth puts a hard ceiling on what local models you can actually run.
