Why Ethernet Is Named After a Physics Myth
Plug a sensor into a switch, wire up a building full of cameras, or rack a server, and you are using Ethernet. It is the most widely deployed wired ne…
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The 555 Timer Is the Best-Selling Chip Ever Made
Ask someone to name the most important chip ever made and they will reach for a processor: an Intel CPU, an ARM core, maybe the microcontroller inside…
CUDA for AMD Lemonade, Intel Arc Pro Linux Gains, XPU Manager 2.0
CUDA for AMD Lemonade, Intel Arc Pro Linux Gains, XPU Manager 2.0 Today's Highlights Today's top GPU news highlights include AMD's Lemonade SDK gainin…
How Hedy Lamarr Invented Wireless Frequency Hopping
Ask most engineers who laid the groundwork for modern wireless and you will hear names like Marconi, Shannon, or the committees behind the IEEE 802.11…
Vortex 3.0 RISC-V GPGPU, Pragtical SDL GPU Backend, NVIDIA RTX Spark Launch
Vortex 3.0 RISC-V GPGPU, Pragtical SDL GPU Backend, NVIDIA RTX Spark Launch Today's Highlights Today's top stories highlight significant advancements …
Tech Pragmatism: Why More Decentralized Data Actually Equals Centralized Utility
Navigating the tech space today often feels like walking a tightrope between two extremes: massive corporate monopolies holding all the keys, and idea…
Linux 7.1 Boosts Intel Arc, Flatpak Integrates ROCm, Vintage AMD Driver Refined
Linux 7.1 Boosts Intel Arc, Flatpak Integrates ROCm, Vintage AMD Driver Refined Today's Highlights Recent developments enhance GPU performance and acc…
Wi-Fi Doesn't Stand for Wireless Fidelity
Ask almost any engineer what "Wi-Fi" stands for and you'll hear the same answer: "Wireless Fidelity." It is one of the most repeated facts in tech, it…
Why Your Next AI Tool Might Be Bottlenecked by the Wrong Chip
Everyone's talking about GPUs for AI - but a quieter hardware shift is about to change what "fast AI" actually means for the tools you use every day. …
Why EIA-96 SMD Resistor Codes Don't Match Their Resistance Values
The first time I encountered an EIA-96 resistor , I assumed the marking would tell me the resistance value directly. I was troubleshooting a PCB and f…
Why Arduino Is Named After a Bar in Italy
Ask a roomful of engineers where the name "Arduino" comes from and you will get confident answers about acronyms, Italian for "bold friend," or some c…
A 120B-model laptop, a federal AI bill, and free pro-grade editing: 3 shifts for builders
Three things landed at once that change what you can run, ship, and edit on your own machine. Here's the builder's-eye view, with what (if anything) t…
Spectre and Meltdown: When CPUs Leak Secrets by Guessing
For decades, processor designers chased speed by letting the CPU run ahead of itself — executing instructions before it was certain they were needed, …
Zhen Ding Joins Nvidia MGX: Cable-Free PCB Technology Replaces Copper Cables in AI Server Factories
The Death of Cables in AI Data Centers Taiwan's Zhen Ding Technology just announced something that should interest anyone building AI infrastructure: …
North American PCB Bookings Surge 25.5% in April — What It Means for Hardware Engineers
The Numbers Are In: PCB Demand Is Accelerating The Global Electronics Association just released their April 2026 PCB industry data, and the numbers ar…
Best Local AI Models for Each VRAM Tier (4 GB to 80 GB) in 2026
This article was originally published on runaihome.com Every "best local AI model" article skips the question that actually matters: best for what VRA…
Stop picking a homelab mini-PC by TDP. The number that decides the power bill is idle watts.
A homelab box that never sleeps runs 8,760 hours a year. So the spec that decides what it costs you is not the one on the box. It is the one nobody pr…
Intel Targets World's First Mass Production of Glass Substrates for AI Chip Packaging
Intel Foundry's Rio Rancho Facility Moves Toward Glass Substrate Volume Production Reports from Wccftech and Forbes (May 26, 2026) indicate that Intel…
AMD Linux 7.2 Graphics & SteamOS VRR Drivers, NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks
AMD Linux 7.2 Graphics & SteamOS VRR Drivers, NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks Today's Highlights This week's top stories feature significant driver upd…
5090 vs 4090 for AI Workloads: Buy, Rent, or Validate in the Cloud?
Originally published at https://blog.runc.ai/5090-vs-4090/ . Key Takeaways RTX 5090 is the stronger flagship on paper, especially when your AI workflo…
From Zero to PCB: A Software Engineer‘s Guide to Designing Your First Circuit Board
No EE degree? No problem. Let’s build hardware the way you build software. You can debug a distributed system. You can optimize a database query. You‘…
CUDA 13.3 Lands, AI Writes Blackwell Kernels, & FP4 VRAM Optimization for LLMs
CUDA 13.3 Lands, AI Writes Blackwell Kernels, & FP4 VRAM Optimization for LLMs Today's Highlights NVIDIA releases CUDA Toolkit 13.3, bringing new …
Keyboard latency probe
Hello, fellow geeks! I was working on a side project when I discovered something odd about how keyboards behave. I only have three keyboards myself to…
FlashAttention CUDA Kernel, Strix Halo MOE Boost, & NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Driver Update
FlashAttention CUDA Kernel, Strix Halo MOE Boost, & NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Driver Update Today's Highlights This week, discover a deep dive into FlashAtt…
20 Years of GPUs in Numbers: How FLOPS & TDP Grew, and Who Led the NVIDIA vs AMD Race (open dataset, 13.5k GPUs)
We run a GPU spec catalog, and over a couple of years it grew into a database of 13,566 GPUs — from the GeForce 256 (1999) all the way to Blackwell an…