NVIDIA's RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition matches L40S throughput at less than half the power in a single-slot 165W card, reshaping edge and mainstream inference BOMs.
ChipAgents and NVIDIA launch Build-A-Chip-Bench to score end-to-end digital chip design. Only ~10% of agent runs hit PPA targets, exposing the gap to tapeout-ready AI.
Aetina launches AIE-KT78 and AIE-KT68 edge AI systems on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, with QSFP28, 8× GMSL2, and an isolated EtherCAT port for cobots, humanoids, and AMRs.
Epomaker confirmed a 75% Galaxy keyboard with VIA remapping, aluminium chassis, gasket mount, and Creamy Jade linear switches; pricing is still unconfirmed.
NVIDIA pairs a 20-core Grace CPU with a 6,144-CUDA Blackwell iGPU under the RTX Spark name, backed by Microsoft and game studios for Arm64 translation and kernel-mode anti-cheat parity.
StorageReview's Jan v0.8.6 retest on an RTX 5000 Ada workstation logged 123 tok/s for Jan V3.5 4B and 82 tok/s for Jan V2 VL High, framing Windows local-LLM design choices for engineers.
Embedded.com reports latency in edge AI hinges on the full sensor-to-actuator chain, not inference alone. Designers must co-design memory, DMA, NPUs, and RTOS to hit worst-case deadlines.
SEMI projects 300 mm front-end fab equipment spend rising to $149B in 2026 (+31% YoY) and $227B in 2029, with 20 new fabs/lines starting construction in 2026.
Skyworks completes its Qorvo combination, targeting $500M+ in annual cost synergies and broader RF GaN and power portfolios. Engineers and buyers should watch for SKU consolidation and lead-time shifts.