Why Does Performance Drop When Phones Heat Up?
Heat buildup during intensive use on smartphones can cause performance to decline.
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Chips & Hardware
Mark Furneaux disassembled the Lumitime watch, manufactured by the Japanese company Tamura, and examined its mechanism.
Mark Furneaux disassembled the Lumitime watch manufactured by Tamura and examined its internal mechanism.
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Google to test its artificial intelligence chip in space next week
Google plans to launch the prototype satellite it prepared to test TPU chips with SpaceX next week.
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Reconstructing Device Firmware from SPI Readings
Matthew Alt explained a method for reading device firmware using a logic analyzer without removing the flash chip.
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The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 family also includes a surprise Extreme model this year
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme models for flagship phones.
Read more →NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agent-Based and Open-Source Robotics Development
NVIDIA announced its GPU-accelerated robotics library, Isaac ROS 5.0, at the ROSCon conference in Toronto.
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Laser Access to Debug Mode on RP2350
The Ledger Donjon team bypassed the security protections of the RP2350 chip, which is described as secure, using a laser.
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Huawei plans to launch its new AI chip against Nvidia in the first quarter of 2027
Huawei has brought forward the launch of its new AI chip, Ascend 960DT, which competes with Nvidia, to the first quarter of 2027.
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An Access Point Becomes Handheld
[bkovac] developed a Linux-based portable computer using a 20-dollar 4G access point.
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Coreboot advances toward DRAM initialization on Bay Trail
The Coreboot open-source software has successfully initialized DRAM memory on Intel Bay Trail processors.
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