Hardware & Chips

A manually operated calculating device that represents numbers with movable counters or beads arranged according to numerical values.

Apple Watch Series 12 is a smartwatch introduced in September 2026, featuring the S11 chip, redesigned heart sensors, and a readiness score.

Bell Labs is an industrial research organization established in 1925 whose discoveries helped shape modern telecommunications, electronics, and computing.

A device or program that performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, evolving from mechanical gears to electronic chips and software.

A camera is a device that records images by directing light through an optical system onto a light-sensitive surface, from film to electronic sensors.

The central processing unit (CPU) is the component of a computer that fetches program instructions and carries out arithmetic, logical, and control operations on data.

CMOS is an integrated-circuit technology that combines n-channel and p-channel MOS transistors to implement low-power logic, memory, analog circuits, and image sensors.

A computer is a programmable machine that processes data by carrying out sequences of arithmetic and logical operations automatically.

A circuit board built around a GPU, with memory, power circuitry, cooling and connectors, used to render images and run parallel computing workloads.

A graphics processing unit is a parallel processor designed for rendering images and accelerating computationally intensive workloads.

Honor Magic9 is a series of Android flagship smartphones launched by Honor in China on 28 September 2026, with cameras co-developed with ARRI.

The Huawei Mate 90 is a premium smartphone series that Huawei launched in October 2026, offering five variants with Kirin processors and HarmonyOS 7.

The Huawei Mate XT is a tri-fold smartphone introduced in 2024, using two hinges to expand a single flexible display into a 10.2-inch screen.

An integrated circuit combines interconnected electronic components on a semiconductor substrate to perform processing, storage, amplification, or control functions.

The iPhone 17 is an Apple smartphone introduced in September 2025, featuring the A19 chip, a 6.3-inch adaptive-refresh display, and upgraded front and rear cameras.

iPhone 18 Pro is Apple's compact professional smartphone, announced in September 2026, built around the A20 Pro chip and a three-lens 48-megapixel camera system.

The iPhone Air is an Apple smartphone introduced in September 2025, distinguished by its thin titanium body, 6.5-inch display, and A19 Pro processor.

The iPhone Duo is a foldable smartphone designed and sold by Apple, and the first iPhone with a folding design.

Taiwan-born American electrical engineer and business executive who co-founded NVIDIA and has led it since 1993.

Kirin 9050 is a Huawei mobile system-on-chip (SoC) announced in September 2026, the first Kirin processor built with the LogicFolding stacked-die design.

A semiconductor device that emits light when electric current passes through a p–n junction, using electroluminescence.

Taiwan-born American electrical engineer and business executive who became AMD’s chief executive in 2014 and chair in 2022.

A logic gate implements a Boolean operation on binary signals and serves as a basic building block of digital circuits.

A logical qubit is an encoded unit of quantum information whose physical representation enables the detection and correction of specified errors.

A MOSFET is an insulated-gate transistor that controls semiconductor conduction through an electric field, enabling electronic switching, amplification, and integrated circuits.

Micron Technology is an American semiconductor company that develops and manufactures memory chips and data-storage products for computing, communications, automotive, and industrial applications.

A mobile phone is a portable handheld device that communicates over cellular radio networks. It has evolved from bulky 1980s handsets into multipurpose smartphones.

Nintendo’s hybrid video game console, released in 2025 as the successor to the Nintendo Switch.

Nvidia DGX Spark is a compact desktop AI computer built around the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip for local model development, inference, and fine-tuning.

A p–n junction is the boundary between p-type and n-type semiconductor regions, whose internal electric field enables rectification, carrier injection, and light–electricity conversion.

A general-purpose computer built for one user at a time, from 1970s microcomputers to today's laptops and desktops.

Photolithography uses patterned light and photosensitive materials to define microscopic structures, especially in semiconductor manufacturing.

Qualcomm is an American fabless semiconductor and wireless-technology company, founded in 1985, known for cellular patent licensing and Snapdragon processors.

A computer that processes quantum information to perform computations using superposition, entanglement, and interference.

A quantum gate is a reversible operation on qubits, forming a basic building block of quantum circuits.

A qubit is a two-level quantum information unit whose states can exhibit superposition and entanglement.

A semiconductor is a material whose controllable electrical conductivity enables electronic switching, amplification, light emission, sensing, and energy conversion.

Semiconductor doping is the controlled introduction of impurities to regulate charge-carrier concentrations and the electrical behavior of semiconductor materials and devices.

Smart glasses are wearable electronic eyewear providing computing, communication, sensing, audio, or near-eye visual information.

A handheld mobile phone that combines general-purpose computing, a touchscreen, an app platform and internet access, and its technology, market and social effects.

A superconducting qubit stores quantum information in selected energy states of a low-temperature superconducting electrical circuit containing Josephson junctions.

Surface Laptop Ultra is a 15-inch Windows on Arm notebook from Microsoft, built on NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform for local AI and 3D work, announced in 2026.

A Tensor Processing Unit is a Google-designed processor specialized for accelerating neural-network training and inference through high-throughput matrix computation.

A transistor is a semiconductor device that controls electrical current, serving as an amplifier or switch in electronic circuits.

The Xiaomi 18 Pro is a Chinese-market flagship Android smartphone announced in September 2026, built around Qualcomm's 2 nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and featuring a privacy display.