A look back at the most intriguing hardware news of 2024, from Elon Musk's plans for Tesla chips to the rise of 'neural' wristband controllers.
It's been another full revolution around the sun and—guess what—we're back here again. As we survey a year of ups and downs, it'd be impossible to recount every beat. Instead, we've let you call the shots. Below, we take a look back at the stories that piqued your interest, the headlines you just had to share, and wonder just where the time went over the last 12 months.
While I try in vain to avoid confronting the merciless passage of time, take a peep below at the biggest hardware stories of 2024. Elon Musk claims Tesla could build a silicon foundry and make its own chips, but says 'I sure hope we don’t have to'. Microsoft's current OS has been shrunk to a ridiculous 100MB in size, but only by getting rid of windows from Windows. Researchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storage. The Chinese government is phasing out Intel and AMD CPUs and Microsoft's Windows OS because they don't fit its new 'safe and reliable' guidelines. Valve explains how it built an orb out of Steam Deck OLED prototypes rather than making Half-Life 3, vowing 'we will construct an orb at any opportunity'. The president of Sony Honda is allowed to drive an electric car on-stage with a DualSense yet I'm not allowed to play games while I drive. TypicalMeta's experimental 'neural' wristband controller will be a real product that lets you type just by thinking because Zuck doesn't want 'a chip that you jack into your brain'. Sony's reportedly stopped making any more PS VR2 headsets until it can figure out a way of shifting a pile of unsold VR goggles. Pursuing self-improvement is such a January cliche; you don't need a new year to herald a whole new you. Still, that didn't stop NTDEV from shrinking dow
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