O n 7 October, the open-source hardware community woke up to surprising news. Qualcomm, the tech giant behind the Snapdragon ...

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IBM is entering a crowded and rapidly evolving market of small language models (SLMs), competing with offerings like Qwen3, ...

The last decade was defined by open-source innovations in various technology fields. The software stack’s publicly accessible nature empowered the developer community to exchange code and realize ...

Open-source hardware (OSHW) concerns hardware design that is publicly available for anyone to study, modify, distribute, make, or sell, or hardware based on that design. The design must be available ...

Open-source hardware continues to gain ground, spearheaded by RISC-V — despite the fact that this processor technology is neither free nor simple to use. Nevertheless, the open-source hardware ...

IBM released all the Granite 4 Nano models under the open-source Apache 2.0 license, which is highly permissive. The license ...

Hardware design's growing abstraction might lead you to think open-source development is just around the corner. Jim says that's not the case. Open source is a powerful force in software development.

Open-source hardware is gaining attention on a variety of fronts, from chiplets and the underlying infrastructure to the ecosystems required to support open-source and hybrid open-source and ...

A hardware device that can be copied, made and sold by anyone without any royalties or payment. The detailed specifications are published free of charge. Following in the footsteps of open-source ...

*Basic #1: do not electrocute yourself with a homemade toaster that isn't even screwed together. https://certification.oshwa.org/basics.html OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE ...