Nvidia's board says operations, customer commitments, and the product
roadmap will continue without interruption while it searches internally
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TLDR HARDWARE 2026-11-13
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HEADLINES AND LAUNCHES
NVIDIA SAYS ITS PRODUCT ROADMAP IS UNAFFECTED AFTER HUANG RESIGNS,
WITH CFO COLETTE KRESS AS INTERIM CEO (3 MINUTE READ) [4]
Nvidia's board says operations, customer commitments, and the product
roadmap will continue without interruption while it searches
internally and externally for a permanent CEO, and it named Synopsys
veteran Harvey Jones its first board chair. Analysts note the roadmap
is largely visible through 2028, with Vera Rubin ramping now and Rubin
Ultra due in 2027, so the open risk is the next architecture bets and
new deals.
AMD'S MIKE CLARK SAYS ZEN 6C IS NOW THE TOP-IPC CORE, WITH 4MB OF L3
PER CORE AND DOUBLE THE VECTOR LOADS (3 MINUTE READ) [5]
AMD now treats the dense Zen 6c as its performance core, with 32
cores sharing 128MB of L3, and gives it bigger queues because its
lower frequency target leaves timing slack. Across Zen 6, integer
multipliers drop from three to two to enable distributed schedulers,
vector loads double to four for 128 and 256-bit, two VNNI pipes were
squeezed in late for inference, and L2 now sustains 64 bytes per cycle
by cutting prefetch contention.
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ENGINEERING AND APPLICATIONS
UCIE CONNECTIVITY FOR 2.5D AND 3D MULTI-DIE DESIGNS (1 MINUTE READ)
[6]
UCIe connectivity differs in 2.5D and 3D designs due to package
channel challenges and connection density advantages, respectively. In
2.5D, factors like insertion loss and crosstalk influence PHY and
package design, while 3D benefits from shorter vertical connections
and fine-pitch bonding.
SPOTBASIC: A ROS 2 INTERFACE FOR BOSTON DYNAMICS SPOT (4 MINUTE READ)
[7]
SpotBasic is a Python library and intuitive wrapper that simplifies controlling Boston Dynamics Spot robots through ROS 2. It wraps
low-level gRPC communications and complex Spot SDK abstractions into straightforward synchronous and asynchronous APIs for robot motion,
payload control, and camera streaming.
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RESEARCH AND PROTOTYPES
NVIDIA LAUNCHES GR00T 2 AND ISAAC LAB 3.0 AT CORL (5 MINUTE READ) [8]
At the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin, NVIDIA unveiled GR00T
2, an updated open world action model trained on vast multimodal
datasets, alongside Isaac Lab 3.0 for large-scale robot learning. The
updated release integrates the Newton physics engine to support
deformable object simulation and provides automated evaluation
benchmarks like DexBench for industrial tasks.
ART-GLOVE: ARTICULATED TACTILE GLOVE FOR CONTACT-GROUNDED DEXTEROUS INTERACTION CAPTURE (2 MINUTE READ) [9]
ART-Glove is a wearable articulated glove that captures human hand
movements and contact forces without sacrificing natural finger
dexterity. The design incorporates twenty-two joint encoders along
with dense piezoresistive tactile sensor arrays across sixteen rigid
functional surfaces to capture synchronized kinematic and contact data
at 120 Hz. This technology offers an effective way to record
high-fidelity real-world human demonstrations required for training
imitation learning and dexterous manipulation policies.
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MISCELLANEOUS
ELON MUSK WANTS TO BUILD A S $24 BILLION GAS-POWERED AI SUPERCOMPUTER
IN TEXAS COMPANY TOWN (3 MINUTE READ) [10]
Elon Musk is planning to build a $24 billion gas-powered AI
supercomputer in Starbase, Texas, with an initial phase up for
approval in December. The project could face opposition from Texas
Governor Gina Hinojosa, who opposes new data centers without stronger legislative protections. This venture aligns with SpaceX's goal to
build 10 gigawatts of compute power by 2027 and might expand if local regulations remain favorable.
UKRAINE SAYS STARSHIELD IS CAPPED AT 161 KM/H FOR MOVING TERMINALS,
BREAKING DRONE INTERCEPTION, WHICH SPACEX DENIES (2 MINUTE READ) [11]
Zelenskyy says "systematic speed restrictions" limit Starshield to
161 km/h (100 mph), which is a limit on how fast a terminal can move,
not internet speed, so interceptors faster than that lose their link.
SpaceX told Axios there has been no change, and who imposed any limit
is unresolved, with Musk earlier saying Starshield is
government-controlled.
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QUICK LINKS
NOCTUA BRINGS SPACE-GRADE CARBON NANOTUBE THERMAL PAD TO AMD AM5 AND
AM4 PROCESSORS (3 MINUTE READ) [12]
Noctua has released the NT-CP1 carbon nanotube thermal pad for AMD
AM4 and AM5 processors, priced at $24.95.
CEREBRAS' WSE-5 WENT FROM TAPE-OUT TO SYSTEM TESTING IN UNDER 5
MONTHS, AS CLOUD REVENUE GREW 265% AND HARDWARE SALES FELL (3 MINUTE
READ) [13]
Cerebras says WSE-5 is back from the fab and in system testing,
targeting the CS-5 for early summer 2027 at up to 10,000 tokens per
second per user.
CISCO RAISES ITS HYPERSCALER AI INFRASTRUCTURE FORECAST TO $9B AS
800G-ZR OPTICS OVERTAKE 400G-ZR (3 MINUTE READ) [14]
Networking revenue rose 43% to $11.13 billion, and Cisco's FY27
hyperscaler AI forecast, which excludes neoclouds, rose from $7.5
billion to $9 billion.
AMD'S VERANO HOST CPU TRADES MEMORY BANDWIDTH FOR 112 GBPS XGMI LINKS
AND LPDDR5X TO FEED INSTINCT GPUS (4 MINUTE READ) [15]
Verano comes as 72 cores at 5.3 GHz or 192 dense cores at 4.1 GHz,
with custom I/O dies driving 24 channels of LPDDR5X (SOCAMM2) at up to
8,533 MT/s, which cuts power 30 to 40% versus RDIMMs.
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