Brushless DC motor
A brushless DC motor (BLDC motor) is an electric motor design in which permanent magnets are mounted on the rotating rotor and an electronic controller switches current through stationary stator windings to…
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CATL
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) is a Chinese battery manufacturer based in Ningde, Fujian province, and the largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage in the world.
CFIUS
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee of the US government that reviews foreign investment in American businesses and real estate for national security…
CHIPS and Science Act
The CHIPS and Science Act is a United States federal law, enacted as Public Law 117-167 on August 9, 2022, that appropriated $52.7 billion for domestic semiconductor manufacturing, research, and workforce…
CME Compute Futures
CME Compute Futures are a planned family of financially settled futures contracts tied to Silicon Data benchmarks for hourly rentals of Nvidia H100 and B200 graphics processors.
CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies)
ChangXin Memory Technologies, almost always shortened to CXMT, is China's largest maker of dynamic random-access memory and the only Chinese memory company big enough to appear in global DRAM market-share…
Cambricon
Cambricon Technologies (Chinese: 寒武纪科技; stock ticker: 688256.SS) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company that designs artificial intelligence processors, best known for its Siyuan (思元) Machine Learning Unit…
Cambricon Siyuan 590/690
The Cambricon Siyuan 590 and Siyuan 690 (Chinese: 思元590 / 思元690) are data-center artificial intelligence accelerators designed by Cambricon, a partially state-owned Chinese chip company often called "the…
Catalina (Meta AI rack)
Catalina is a high-power, liquid-cooled rack system designed by Meta for training and serving large AI models.
Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU) is the general-purpose processor that executes a computer's instruction stream.
Cerebras Systems
Cerebras Systems is an American artificial intelligence hardware company that builds wafer-scale processors for AI training and inference
Cerebras WSE-3
The Cerebras WSE-3 (Wafer-Scale Engine 3) is the third-generation wafer-scale AI chip developed by Cerebras Systems, announced on March 13, 2024, and is the largest semiconductor ever built.
Cerebras WSE-4 and 2026 IPO
The Cerebras WSE-4 (Wafer Scale Engine 4) is the anticipated fourth generation of the dinner-plate-sized wafer-scale AI processor built by Cerebras Systems.
China's semiconductor industry
China's semiconductor industry is the network of wafer fabrication plants, equipment and materials suppliers, chip design houses, packaging and test operations, and state investment vehicles that produce…
ChipNeMo
ChipNeMo is a research project and a family of domain-adapted large language models developed by Nvidia to assist with industrial semiconductor and chip-design tasks.
Cloud AI GPU Pricing Comparison
Cloud AI GPU pricing is difficult to compare from a headline hourly rate alone. Providers sell different GPU variants, node sizes, CPU and memory bundles, regions, network configurations, and purchase models.
Cloud TPU
Cloud TPU is Google Cloud's offering of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), the family of custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that Google builds to accelerate machine learning training and…
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, delivered over the internet without active management by the end user.
Co-Packaged Optics
Co-packaged optics (CPO) is a hardware architecture that places active optical engines on the same first-level package substrate as a host application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
Core ML
Core ML is Apple's framework for running trained machine learning models on-device across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS.
Coreless motor
A coreless motor, also called an ironless motor, is a small electric motor whose rotor, the spinning part, carries a self-supporting winding of copper wire with no iron core wound inside it.
Cortical Labs
Cortical Labs is a Melbourne biotechnology company that develops experimental biological-computing systems.
Crossed-roller bearing
A crossed-roller bearing is a precision rolling element bearing that packs cylindrical rollers into a single V-shaped raceway
CuDNN
NVIDIA cuDNN (CUDA Deep Neural Network library) is a proprietary GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep learning, first released by NVIDIA on September 7, 2014, that provides highly tuned…
DRAM (Dynamic Random-Access Memory)
Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is the working memory of nearly every computer built since the late 1970s, and the physical substrate on which modern AI hardware runs.
Data Center
A data center is a purpose-built facility, or a dedicated part of a facility, that houses and interconnects information technology and telecommunications equipment together with the power…
Dylan Patel
Dylan Patel is a semiconductor and artificial intelligence analyst, and the founder, chief executive officer, and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis, a research firm and paid newsletter covering chips, AI…
Edge AI
Edge AI is the practice of running artificial intelligence models directly on the device that generates the data, such as a smartphone, laptop, camera, vehicle, or IoT sensor
Edge TPU
The Edge TPU is a small application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed by Google to run machine learning inference on low-power devices.
Edge computing
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that runs computation and data storage close to where data is generated, at the "edge" of the network
Electronic skin
Electronic skin (usually shortened to e-skin) is a flexible, stretchable sensing surface built to give a robot, prosthetic limb, or wearable device something close to the tactile sense of biological skin: the…
Empyrean Technology
Empyrean Technology (Chinese: 北京华大九天科技股份有限公司, Beijing Huada Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd.; trading as Empyrean) is a Chinese electronic design automation (EDA) software company headquartered in Beijing and…
End effector
An end effector is the device mounted at the working end of a robot arm or wrist: the part that actually touches, grips, welds, or otherwise acts on the world, while the rest of the arm exists only to position…
Enflame
Enflame Technology (Chinese: 燧原科技, romanized Suiyuan) is a Chinese fabless chip company, founded in March 2018 and based in Shanghai, that designs general-purpose AI accelerators for data-center training and…
Entity List
The Entity List is a US export control list maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the Department of Commerce, and published as Supplement No. 4 to Part 744 of the Export…
Eridu
Eridu is an American startup developing networking chips and switches built specifically for large-scale artificial intelligence computing.
EssilorLuxottica
EssilorLuxottica is a Franco-Italian eyecare and eyewear group formed in 2018 by the combination of Essilor, the French lensmaker, and Luxottica, the Italian frame manufacturer and retailer .
Etched
Etched is an American semiconductor startup building Sohu, the first application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed to run only transformer models, the architecture behind most large language models.
Etched Sohu
Sohu is a transformer-specialized application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) built by Etched, a Silicon Valley AI hardware startup founded in 2022 by Harvard dropouts Gavin Uberti, Chris Zhu, and Robert…
EtherCAT
EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) is a real-time industrial Ethernet fieldbus protocol, developed by Beckhoff Automation and introduced in April 2003, that delivers microsecond-class…
Ethernet
Ethernet is the family of wired computer networking technologies standardized by the IEEE 802.3 working group.
Even Realities
Even Realities is a smart-glasses company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, that sells display-equipped eyewear with no camera and no speaker.
Extropic
Extropic (Extropic Corp.) is an American computing hardware company, founded in 2022 by Guillaume Verdon
Extropic Z1T
Z1T is a family of sparse, transformer-like language models that Extropic designed to run partly on its Z1 probabilistic chip, described in a research post dated September 4, 2026 by Guillaume Verdon…
FP4 (4-bit floating point)
FP4 (4-bit floating point) is a numerical format that stores a real number in just 4 bits, the smallest floating-point type in mainstream use for deep learning.
FP8
FP8 is a family of 8-bit floating-point number formats used to accelerate deep learning training and inference, built around two encodings, E4M3 (4 exponent bits, 3 mantissa bits) and E5M2 (5 exponent bits, 2…
FPGA
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit whose logic functions and internal wiring are set by the customer after the chip has been manufactured, and can be reset later.
Flash Attention 3
Flash Attention 3 (FA3, styled FlashAttention-3) is the third generation of the FlashAttention algorithm
FluidStack
FluidStack (stylized Fluidstack) is an artificial intelligence cloud company that provides on-demand access to large clusters of graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI training and inference
Force-torque sensor
A force-torque sensor (F/T sensor) is a transducer that measures three orthogonal forces (Fx, Fy, Fz) and three torques or moments (Tx, Ty, Tz) applied simultaneously at a single point, across six degrees of…
Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry)
Foxconn, officially Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 鴻海精密工業股份有限公司; trading as Hon Hai Technology Group)
Fractile
Fractile is a British AI hardware startup, based in London, that is building in-memory computing chips to speed up and cut the cost of running large AI models.
Friend (AI device)
Friend is a wearable artificial intelligence companion device designed by Avi Schiffmann and developed by his company
Frozen v2 (Google AI chip)
Frozen v2 is the informal internal codename for a specialized artificial-intelligence inference chip that Google is reportedly developing to run its Gemini models more cheaply and with far less energy.
FuriosaAI
FuriosaAI is a South Korean fabless semiconductor startup that designs data-center AI chip accelerators for deep learning inference.
GAIN AI Act
The GAIN AI Act (Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for National Artificial Intelligence Act of 2025) is proposed United States legislation that would require a company seeking a license to export advanced AI…
GPU Cluster
A GPU cluster is a group of servers containing graphics processing units that are connected by high-bandwidth, low-latency networks and operated as one computational pool.
GPU computing
GPU computing is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU) to perform general-purpose computation that was traditionally handled by the central processing unit (CPU).
Galbot ET1
Galbot ET1 is a bipedal humanoid robot introduced by the Chinese robotics company Galbot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing.
Gemini Nano
Gemini Nano is the smallest and most efficient variant of Google's Gemini family of multimodal large language models, designed to run directly on phones and other edge hardware instead of in cloud data centers.