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1X equipped its NEO humanoid robot with new hands featuring 25 joints and tactile sensors that can detect pressure and sideways movement to prevent dropping objects. Each hand includes 22 degrees of freedom across the fingers and palm plus three in the wrist, with backdrivable joints that yield when pushed rather than lock rigid. The hands address the core limitation holding back home robots: while walking is solved, manipulation of everyday objects in unpredictable home environments remains the actual engineering challenge.
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Apple is integrating AI hardware originally developed for its cancelled car project into its M6, M7, and M8 chips for Macs and servers. The new chips incorporate neural processing units and accelerators designed to handle on-device AI tasks more efficiently than previous generations. This shift means Apple's product roadmap and release schedules are now being planned around AI capabilities rather than traditional processor performance metrics.
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1 week ago
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SK Hynix is building its first U.S. manufacturing facility as a strategy to capitalize on sustained AI-driven demand for memory chips. The company is investing billions in the facility, which will begin production in the coming years to supply the American market. If AI demand remains robust, SK Hynix could escape the historical pattern of cyclical oversupply and price collapse that has plagued the memory chip industry.
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SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung forecast that memory chip shortages will peak in 2027 and persist until 2030, driven by high demand for AI accelerators that require advanced manufacturing. The company raised $26.5 billion in a U.S. IPO and expects demand to exceed supply capacity through 2030. If accurate, prolonged shortages would keep memory prices elevated, though the company has financial incentives to overstate the severity of supply constraints.
