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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

ENIAC, announced on 14 February 1946, is described by the University of Pennsylvania as the first general-purpose electronic computer: a 30-ton machine with 18,000 vacuum tubes, built to produce military firing tables.

Huawei Qiankun ADS 4

Huawei's intelligent driving system released in Shanghai on 22 April 2025, built on a cloud-plus-vehicle WEWA architecture and offered in four versions, the flagship carrying a dedicated highway L3 package.

Newton MessagePad

The Newton MessagePad was Apple's first handheld computer built on Newton technology, shipping on 2 August 1993 with a pen-based interface, handwriting recognition and a modular communications design.

Mars Pathfinder lander

NASA's Mars Pathfinder lander touched down on July 4, 1997, deployed the small Sojourner rover, used an airbag landing system for the first time, and returned thousands of images of the Martian surface.

Triton

Triton is OpenAI's open-source, Python-like language and compiler for writing GPU kernels. It lets researchers with no CUDA experience produce efficient GPU code, often close to what an expert would write.

NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM

TensorRT-LLM is NVIDIA's open-source library for speeding up and optimizing large language model inference on NVIDIA GPUs, publicly released on 19 October 2023 and usable free from GitHub or as part of NVIDIA NeMo.

MLX

MLX is an open-source machine learning framework from Apple's machine learning research team, released in December 2023 and built primarily for Apple silicon. Its NumPy-like Python API and unified-memory design let the CPU and GPU work on the same data.

IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine

IBM's first electronic computer, announced to shareholders in April 1952. Built as a general-purpose machine, it ran some 25 to 50 times faster than its predecessors and opened IBM's 700 series.

Kinect for Windows

Microsoft's commercial edition of its Kinect depth-sensing camera, released on 1 February 2012 at a suggested price of $249 with a version 1.0 software development kit, so that companies and researchers could build motion- and voice-based applications for Windows computers.

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