Hardware is the section that follows the silicon, servers and devices powering the current AI boom. We cover the Nvidia, AMD and Apple Silicon roadmaps, the latest accelerators from Cerebras, Groq and TPUs, the emerging market of on-device AI laptops and phones, and the strange new world of AI-first consumer gadgets from Humane, Rabbit and the inevitable successors. Expect benchmark deep dives, supply-chain reporting on where GPUs actually go, and honest reviews of the hardware regular people might genuinely want to buy this year. We also keep an eye on the energy and infrastructure story — data center build-outs, water and electricity costs, and the policy questions a US audience cannot afford to ignore.

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