Hardware for developers: CPUs, RAM, GPUs, embedded boards and how AI demand is changing prices.
Back in February 2026, Linus Torvalds rejected the entire MMC subsystem pull request for Linux 7.0, calling it "complete garbage" and "untested crap" because it didn't build properly and bypassed linux-next. Linux 7.1 gets it right.
For three years the AI industry watched GPUs. Nobody was watching the CPU. Now Intel is warning of six-month lead times, AMD has blown past expectations, and the chip everyone assumed would always be available has become the new bottleneck in the biggest infrastructure buildout since the internet.
How AI infrastructure demand is driving up VPS and dedicated server costs — and why your hosting bill is going up even though you haven't changed anything.
The Goal By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to compile a binary written for the avr instruction set targeting the AtMega328P microcontroller on an
