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OpenAI acquisition of io
The OpenAI acquisition of io is the deal under which OpenAI bought io Products, the artificial intelligence hardware startup co-founded by former Apple design...
AI CompaniesOpenAI
OpenAI-Broadcom AI accelerators
The OpenAI-Broadcom collaboration is a strategic partnership, announced on October 13, 2025, under which OpenAI designs its own custom AI inference...
AI InfrastructureOpenAI
Planetary gear train
A planetary gear train, also called an epicyclic gear train, is a gear reduction mechanism built from small "planet" gears that mesh with, and orbit around, a...
Robotics
Planetary roller screw
A planetary roller screw is a precision mechanical component that converts rotary motion into linear motion by running a ring of threaded steel rollers between...
Robotics
Positron AI
Positron AI is an American semiconductor startup headquartered in Reno, Nevada, that designs and manufactures purpose-built hardware for transformer inference....
AI CompaniesAI Inference
Project Rainier
Project Rainier is a distributed artificial intelligence supercomputer built by Amazon Web Services around its in-house AWS Trainium accelerators, created...
AI InfrastructureData Centers
QPU
A Quantum Processing Unit (QPU), also known as a quantum processor, is the core hardware component of a quantum computer that manipulates qubits using the...
Computer Science
Quadruped Robot
A quadruped robot is a four-legged robotic system that uses dynamic, articulated legs to walk, trot, run, climb, and traverse uneven terrain. By emulating the...
Robotics
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated is an American semiconductor and wireless technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, and is the world's largest fabless...
AI Companies
Qualcomm AI200
Qualcomm AI200 is a rack-scale data-center accelerator for artificial intelligence inference, announced by Qualcomm on 27 October 2025 and slated for...
AI InferenceData Centers
Qualcomm AI250
Qualcomm AI250 is a planned data-center artificial intelligence inference accelerator and rack-scale system announced by Qualcomm in late October 2025. It is...
AI InferenceData Centers
Quanta Computer
Quanta Computer Inc. (Chinese: 廣達電腦; pinyin: Guǎngdá Diànnǎo; TWSE: 2382) is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer headquartered in Taoyuan, Taiwan, and one of...
AI Companies
Quantum processor
A quantum processing unit (QPU), also called a quantum processor, is the hardware component of a quantum computer that holds and manipulates qubits to perform...
Computer Science
Quasi-direct drive
Quasi-direct drive (commonly abbreviated QDD) is an actuator architecture that pairs a high-torque-density electric motor, typically a large-diameter brushless...
Robotics
ROCm
ROCm is AMD's open software stack for GPU computing and the main alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA platform. AMD's own documentation defines it as "a software...
AI InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Rabbit R1
The Rabbit R1 is a $199 standalone artificial intelligence hardware device that was unveiled by Rabbit Inc. founder Jesse Lyu at CES on January 9, 2024, and...
AI Companies
Rain AI
Rain AI, originally incorporated as Rain Neuromorphics, is a San Francisco AI accelerator startup founded by Gordon Hirsch Wilson, Jack Kendall, and Juan...
AI Companies
Rebellions REBEL-Quad
REBEL-Quad is a chiplet-based AI inference accelerator developed by Rebellions, a South Korean AI-chip company. It was presented at the Hot Chips 2025...
AI Inference
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH, known as Bosch, is a German engineering and technology company that is the world's largest automotive supplier and one of Europe's largest...
AI CompaniesAutonomous Vehicles
Robot
A robot is a programmable machine that senses its environment, computes a decision, and acts on the physical world through a closed loop of perception,...
AI InfrastructureRobotics
Robotics
Robotics is the interdisciplinary field of engineering and science concerned with the design, construction, operation, and use of physical machines, called...
Artificial IntelligenceRobotics
Rolling-element bearing
A rolling-element bearing is a machine component that lets one part rotate or pivot against another while carrying load, typically a shaft turning inside a...
Robotics
Rotary encoder
A rotary encoder is an electromechanical sensor that measures the angular position, direction, and speed of a rotating shaft and converts that motion into an...
Robotics
SK Hynix
SK Hynix Inc. (KRX:000660) is a South Korean memory semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, and the world's largest producer of high...
AI Companies
SambaNova SN40L
The SambaNova SN40L is a reconfigurable dataflow AI accelerator designed by SambaNova Systems and unveiled on September 19, 2023.[1][2] Marketed as a...
AI Infrastructure
SambaNova SN50
The SambaNova SN50 is a reconfigurable dataflow accelerator that SambaNova Systems unveiled in late February 2026 as the successor to its SN40L chip. The...
AI Infrastructure
SambaNova Systems
SambaNova Systems is an American artificial intelligence hardware and software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in November 2017 by...
AI CompaniesDeep Learning
Samsung
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean electronics manufacturer headquartered in Suwon, the flagship company of the Samsung Group conglomerate and the world's...
AI Companies
Samsung AI
Samsung AI is the portfolio of artificial intelligence research, products, and services built by Samsung Electronics, spanning the Galaxy AI features on its...
AI Companies
Servo motor
A servo motor is a motor operated inside a closed feedback loop: a controller sends a target position, speed, or torque, a sensor, typically a rotary encoder,...
Robotics
Smart home
A smart home is a residence equipped with networked devices, sensors, and appliances that can be monitored or controlled remotely, often through a smartphone...
AI Tools & Products
SmolVLA
SmolVLA (Small Vision-Language-Action) is a compact, open-source vision-language-action model (VLA) for robotics developed by Hugging Face and released in June...
AI ModelsArtificial Intelligence
Stepper motor
A stepper motor (also called a stepping motor) is an electric motor that converts a sequence of electrical pulses into discrete mechanical steps rather than...
Robotics
SwitchBot
SwitchBot is a smart home brand that makes affordable home-automation devices designed to retrofit onto existing fixtures rather than replace them, including...
Robotics Companies
Systolic array
A systolic array is a parallel computer architecture in which a regular grid of identical, tightly coupled processing elements (PEs) rhythmically pumps data...
TPU Board
A TPU board (Tensor Processing Unit board) is a printed circuit board (PCB) that houses one or more Tensor Processing Unit chips along with associated memory,...
GoogleMachine Learning
TPU Chip
This article covers the TPU chip and its hardware. For the broader topic, see Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). The Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a custom...
GoogleMachine Learning
TPU Device
A TPU device is a Google-designed application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), the physical Tensor Processing Unit chip and its host hardware, built to...
GoogleMachine Learning
TPU Ironwood
TPU Ironwood (officially TPU v7 or TPU7x) is Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit and the first TPU designed specifically for inference, unveiled...
AI InfrastructureData Centers
TPU Master
The TPU master is the control and coordination role in Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) system that drives the actual TPU computation. In the TensorFlow...
GoogleMachine Learning
TPU Node
A TPU node is the legacy Google Cloud architecture for accessing Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) hardware, in which a user's virtual machine (VM) runs application...
AI InfrastructureGoogle
TPU Pod
A TPU Pod is a single Google supercomputer built from many Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips wired directly to each other by a high-speed Inter-Chip...
AI InfrastructureGoogle
TPU Slice
A TPU slice is a collection of Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips that all sit inside the same Google Cloud TPU Pod and are connected to one another by a...
GoogleMachine Learning
TPU Type
The types of TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) are the successive generations of custom machine-learning accelerator that Google has built since 2015: v1, v2, v3,...
GoogleMachine Learning
TPU Worker
A TPU worker is a virtual machine (VM) running Linux that has direct access to one or more Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and executes the actual TPU...
AI InfrastructureGoogle
TPU v4
TPU v4 is Google's fourth-generation Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that accelerates machine learning...
TPU v5e
Cloud TPU v5e (sometimes rendered TPU v5e or, internally at Google, TPUv5e) is the fifth-generation, efficiency-optimized member of Google's Tensor Processing...
TPU v5p
TPU v5p (Cloud TPU v5p) is Google's fifth-generation, performance-tier Tensor Processing Unit, a custom AI accelerator that delivers 459 bfloat16 TFLOPS per...
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry and the company that physically manufactures the...
AI Companies
Taalas
Taalas is a Toronto, Canada based AI chip startup that builds "hardwired" or model-specific silicon, in which an entire trained neural network is etched...
AI Companies
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
A Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) built by Google to accelerate machine learning workloads, and it is...
AI InfrastructureDeep Learning
TensorFlow Lite (LiteRT)
TensorFlow Lite, rebranded as LiteRT (short for Lite Runtime) on September 4, 2024, is Google's open-source, on-device inference runtime that runs trained...
Developer ToolsGoogle
TensorRT
TensorRT is NVIDIA's software development kit (SDK) for high-performance deep learning inference on NVIDIA GPUs. It takes trained neural networks and optimizes...
AI Tools & ProductsMachine Learning
Tenstorrent
Tenstorrent is a North American artificial intelligence hardware and intellectual property company that designs processors for AI training and inference on the...
AI CompaniesAI Infrastructure
Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole
Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole is an AI inference server built by Tenstorrent, the fabless semiconductor company led by chief executive Jim Keller. The system...
AI Inference
Tesla AI5
Tesla AI5 is a custom artificial intelligence inference chip developed by Tesla, positioned as the successor to the company's AI4 (Hardware 4) self-driving...
Autonomous Vehicles
Tokens per second
Tokens per second (TPS) is a key performance metric for measuring the speed of large language model (LLM) inference. It quantifies how many tokens a model can...
AI BenchmarksLarge Language Models
Trillium (TPU v6e)
Trillium, also designated TPU v6e, is the sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit developed by Google for machine learning training and inference workloads on...
Trusted Execution Environments for machine learning
Trusted Execution Environments for machine learning (TEEs for ML, sometimes marketed as "Confidential AI" or "confidential inference") are deployments of...
AI Infrastructure
UALink
UALink (Ultra Accelerator Link) is an open industry standard for scale-up interconnect between AI accelerators that lets up to 1,024 accelerators inside a...
AI InfrastructureOpen Source AI