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NVLink is NVIDIA's proprietary high-bandwidth, low-latency, cache-coherent point-to-point interconnect for directly connecting GPUs to other GPUs and, in some configurations, to host CPUs.
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NVLink Fusion
NVLink Fusion is a program and silicon technology from NVIDIA that opens its NVLink high speed interconnect to third party chips.
NVSwitch
NVSwitch is a family of switch chips (ASICs) designed by Nvidia that fully connect multiple GPUs over NVLink into a single shared-memory fabric, letting every GPU talk to every other GPU at full link speed.
Neural Processing Unit
A neural processing unit (NPU) is a processor, or a block inside a larger chip, designed specifically to run neural network inference at high throughput and low power.
Neuromorphic computing
Neuromorphic computing is brain-inspired computer hardware that processes information with spiking neural networks (SNNs) and event-driven, in-memory computation, co-locating memory and processing the way…
Normal Computing
Normal Computing is an American deep-tech startup developing thermodynamic computing hardware and AI-driven electronic design automation (EDA) software.
Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation is an American technology company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs) and is the world's dominant supplier of hardware for artificial intelligence
OMRON Corporation
OMRON Corporation is a Japanese electronics, industrial automation, and healthcare technology company headquartered in Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, and is one of the world's larger suppliers of factory automation…
Oakley Meta
Oakley Meta is the second eyewear brand in Meta's AI glasses partnership with EssilorLuxottica, after Ray-Ban. Two products carry the name.
On-device AI
On-device AI is the practice of running machine learning models on the phone, laptop, watch, or embedded board a person is actually using, instead of sending the input to a remote data center.
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 chief Jony Ive together with OpenAI chief…
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 accelerators and Broadcom co-develops, manufactures, and…
Orion (Meta AR Glasses)
Orion is an augmented reality glasses prototype built by Meta and revealed on 2024-09-25 at Meta Connect 2024. It was never sold.
PCI Express
PCI Express (PCIe) is a high-speed serial interconnect standard used to attach processors to graphics cards, network adapters, storage devices, and accelerators inside nearly every modern computer and server.
PRIMA (retinal implant)
PRIMA (Photovoltaic Retina Implant Micro-Array) is a wireless subretinal implant that partially restores central vision in people blinded by geographic atrophy
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
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 a central screw shaft and a surrounding nut
Positron AI
Positron AI is an American semiconductor startup headquartered in Reno, Nevada, that designs and manufactures purpose-built hardware for transformer inference.
Project Rainier
Project Rainier is a distributed artificial intelligence supercomputer built by Amazon Web Services around its in-house AWS Trainium accelerators, created principally to train and serve the Claude models of…
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 principles of quantum mechanics to perform…
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.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated is an American semiconductor and wireless technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, and is the world's largest fabless mobile chip designer.
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 commercial availability in 2026 .
Qualcomm AI250
Qualcomm AI250 is a planned data-center artificial intelligence inference accelerator and rack-scale system announced by Qualcomm in late October 2025.
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 the two largest contract manufacturers of AI…
Quantum computing
Quantum computing is a model of computation that stores and manipulates information in quantum mechanical systems, using superposition, entanglement, and interference to solve certain problems with far fewer…
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 quantum logic operations.
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 DC motor, with a low-ratio mechanical transmission
RISC-V
RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), the contract that defines which instructions a processor executes and which registers software can see.
ROCm
ROCm is AMD's open software stack for GPU computing and the main alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA platform.
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 pitched as a pocket-sized AI companion that could…
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 Claudio Nino, with technical roots in the University of…
RayNeo
RayNeo (雷鸟创新, Thunderbird Innovation) is a Chinese augmented reality and AI glasses maker founded in October 2021 and incubated by TCL Electronics (01070.HK), which calls it exactly that in its 2025 results…
Rebellions
Rebellions is a South Korean fabless semiconductor company that designs inference-focused AI chips, accelerator systems, and supporting software.
Rebellions REBEL-Quad
REBEL-Quad is a chiplet-based AI inference accelerator developed by Rebellions, a South Korean AI-chip company.
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 corporate investors in artificial intelligence.
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, planning, and actuation.
Robotics
Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and engineering of robots: embodied machines whose mechanisms, sensors, computation, and actuators are organized to perform tasks in the physical world.
Rokid
Rokid is a Chinese augmented reality and AI glasses company headquartered in Hangzhou, founded in July 2014 by Zhu Mingming, who uses the English name Misa Zhu.
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 housing, by placing hardened balls or rollers between…
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 electrical signal a controller can read.
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 bandwidth memory (HBM) used in AI accelerators.
SMEE (Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment)
Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (Group) Co., Ltd., known as SMEE, is China's best known photolithography equipment maker and its designated national champion in the field.
SMIC
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is China's largest contract chipmaker and the most advanced pure-play semiconductor foundry on the mainland
SRAM
SRAM, or static random-access memory, is a semiconductor memory that stores each bit in a latch built from cross-coupled inverters.
SambaNova SN40L
The SambaNova SN40L is a reconfigurable dataflow AI accelerator designed by SambaNova Systems and unveiled on September 19, 2023.
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.
SambaNova Systems
SambaNova Systems is an American artificial intelligence hardware and software company headquartered in San Jose, California.
Samsung
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean electronics manufacturer headquartered in Suwon, the flagship company of the Samsung Group conglomerate and the world's largest maker of memory chips
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 phones, the Samsung Gauss family of generative AI…
Samsung Galaxy XR
Samsung Galaxy XR is a mixed reality headset from Samsung Electronics that went on sale on 2025-10-21 in the United States and 2025-10-22 in South Korea at $1,799.99.
SemiAnalysis
SemiAnalysis is an independent research and analysis firm covering the semiconductor and artificial intelligence industries.
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, reports what the motor actually did, and the…
SiCarrier
SiCarrier is a Chinese semiconductor equipment maker headquartered in Shenzhen. Its parent company, Shenzhen SiCarrier Technologies Co.
Smart Glasses and Privacy
Camera-equipped smart glasses pose a privacy problem that phones do not, because the person being recorded usually cannot tell.
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 app, a wall-mounted hub, or a voice command, and…
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 2025.
Snap Specs
Snap Specs, styled SPECS by the company, are standalone augmented reality glasses developed by Specs Inc.
Snap Spectacles
Spectacles was Snap Inc.'s line of camera and augmented reality eyewear, built across five generations between 2016 and 2024.
Snapdragon AR1
Snapdragon AR1 is a family of Qualcomm system-on-chip platforms built specifically for smart glasses.