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Tower Semiconductor Bets $3B on Japan Photonics Push
The Israeli specialty foundry will revive a dormant Panasonic-era fab and expand a running plant, targeting $3.6 billion in revenue by 2028.
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TSMC Adds $100B and Four More Arizona Fabs to Its US Bet
TSMC's latest $100 billion pledge lifts its total US commitment to $265 billion and puts Arizona on track for 10 fabs, with no timeline attached.
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TSMC Adds $100 Billion More to Its US Chipmaking Bet
The Taiwan-based chipmaker now has $265 billion committed to American production, with AI demand and tariff pressure both pushing the expansion.
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ZTE Gets US Clearance to Buy Nvidia H200 Chips
The US has approved ZTE and Maginfra to purchase Nvidia's Hopper-generation H200 accelerators, expanding a short list of Chinese firms with sanctioned access.
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A Transformer Built for FPGAs Skips the Math
ELiTeFormer combines linear attention with ternary weights to run large language models on FPGAs with a fraction of the memory and energy of a GPU.
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Georgia Tech Headphones Turn Robot Proximity Into Music
Spherephones convert nearby robot movement into spatial lo-fi audio cues, giving factory workers a heads-up before danger enters their line of sight.
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TileFuse Brings Quantized LLM Inference to AMD NPUs
A new kernel library lets AMD's XDNA2 NPU run AWQ-style quantized models natively, cutting prefill latency in half and energy use by more than 64.6%.
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Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB Returns to Shelves at Near-Original Price
Five years after its debut, the RTX 3060 12GB is back at retail for $339.99 — almost exactly its original MSRP, and barely cheaper than newer cards.
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RAM Prices Won't Fall for Years, but Kit Makers Aren't Helping
Lenovo warned that RAM prices could stay elevated for years, while kit makers respond by releasing ultra-fast memory almost no one will buy.
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Mac Studio Skips M6, Jumps to M7 Ultra in 2028
Apple is bypassing an M6 Ultra entirely, with a redesigned Mac Studio carrying M7 Ultra silicon and a new thermal system slated for 2028.
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South Korea Bets $583 Billion on AI Chips
Samsung and SK hynix will cover nearly 90 percent of a national push to dominate AI memory production before any rival can catch up.
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RAM and SSD Prices Could Double by Year End
Jefferies forecasts 40-50% memory price hikes in Q3, another 30-40% in Q4, with no real recovery expected until 2028 at the earliest.
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Baidu Chip Unit Eyes $50B Hong Kong IPO With a Catch
Kunlunxin is reportedly asking IPO investors to buy its chips too, blurring the line between capital raise and sales push.
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Apple's Touchscreen MacBook Arrives on M5, Not M7
A Bloomberg report says Apple will ship its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, skipping a wait for next-generation silicon.
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Micron Briefly Tops Meta and Tesla by Market Value
A 236% single-month stock surge lifted Micron past $1 trillion, but the revenue figure behind it could not be independently verified.
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Researchers Publish Deep Dive Into Apple Neural Engine
An arxiv paper examines the architecture and programming model of Apple's on-device AI accelerator, a chip block that rarely gets public scrutiny.
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Apple Seeks Clearance to Buy Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Firm
Apple is asking the Trump administration for permission to source chips from a Chinese company with reported military ties.
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Musk Gets FTC Green Light to Acquire Mesh Optical Technologies
The FTC cleared Musk's bid for Mesh Optical, a startup built by three former SpaceX engineers who supply optical transceivers to AI data centers.
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Apple Hikes Mac and iPad Prices as Much as 50 Percent
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, HomePods, and Vision Pro by up to 50 percent or more, blaming component shortages expected to last well into 2027.
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Lenovo and Microsoft Agree: High RAM Prices Are Here to Stay
Lenovo says pre-crisis memory prices are unlikely to return for years, while Microsoft warns console RAM costs could double again by fall 2027.
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Micron Points a Finger at Apple Over the Memory Crunch
Micron's chief business officer implied aggressive price negotiations by Apple-style buyers starved the memory industry of the capital it needed to expand.
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Onsemi Buys Synaptics in $7B All-Stock Deal
The power chip maker snaps up cash-strapped Synaptics to build a one-stop shop for edge AI hardware spanning compute, connectivity, and sensing.
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Arduino Uno Q Prices Rise $15 and $20 Depending on Model
The 2GB Uno Q goes from $44 to $59 while the 4GB jumps from $59 to $79, with both increases taking effect July 6th.
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IBM Builds First Sub-1nm Chip Using Stacked Dual-Wafer Transistors
IBM's 0.7nm-class process stacks n- and p-type transistors on separate wafers, claiming 50% more performance and 70% better efficiency than its 2nm node.
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Apple's M6 Chip Arrives in 2026 on a New 2nm Process
Apple's next MacBook Pro will carry the M6, its first 2nm chip, with no Pro or Max variants until the M7 generation in 2027.
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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Targets 768GB RAM, but Supply May Cut That
Apple is testing an M5 Ultra Mac Studio with up to 768GB of unified memory, though chip shortages could force a more modest launch around October 2026.
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Apple Raises Prices on Macs and iPads, Blames AI Chip Crunch
Apple hiked prices on 14 products by up to $1,300, citing a memory chip shortage driven by AI data center buildouts from OpenAI and Nvidia.
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Apple May Ship M6 Without Pro or Max Tiers
A report suggests Apple will launch the M6 chip in base form only, holding Pro, Max, and Ultra variants for the M7 in early 2027.
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Apple Kills M6 Pro and Max, Pivots to AI-First M7 Chips
Apple is scrapping M6 Pro and Max variants, pushing professional Macs to wait for M7 chips built around on-device AI and GPU workloads.
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IBM Claims a Chip Breakthrough Below 1 Nanometer
IBM says it has demonstrated sub-1nm chip technology, a threshold no commercial process has crossed before.
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Smuggled Nvidia AI Servers Fetch $1M-Plus in China
Export controls have pushed black-market prices for Nvidia AI servers to almost three times their US retail cost, according to new reports.
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Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPad, and More as RAM Costs Hit
A global memory shortage has forced Apple to quietly raise prices across Mac, iPad, Apple TV, and HomePod lines, with some models jumping $200 or more.
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MacBook Neo Gets $100 Pricier as Memory Chip Crunch Hits Apple
Apple has raised MacBook Neo prices by $100 across the board, blaming a memory chip shortage tied to surging AI infrastructure demand.
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Apple Raises M4 Pro Mac Mini Price by $200
Memory demand from AI data centers has pushed Apple to hike the M4 Pro Mac Mini's starting price to $1,599, up from $1,399 at launch.
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Ex-Apple and Audi Designers Built a $25K Electric Resort Buggy
The Amble One is a street-legal electric buggy aimed at luxury resorts, with a full car reportedly in the works from the same team.
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Qualcomm Enters China AI Market That Nvidia Has Already Left
With 46% of revenue from China, Qualcomm is building export-compliant AI chips for Chinese data centers — a lane Nvidia already abandoned.
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Apple Raises Prices Across Nearly Every Product Line
A global memory and storage chip shortage has forced Apple to hike prices by as much as $1,300, with the Mac Studio taking the steepest hit.
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IBM Claims a Sub-1nm Chip - Without Sub-1nm Transistors
IBM's new "nanostack" architecture promises near-100-billion transistor density by bending the definition of what a nanometer node actually means.
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OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño Chip Targets LLM Inference
OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, a custom data center chip built for large-scale LLM inference, with more generations promised.
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Nature Paper Questions Microsoft Majorana 1 Quantum Claims
A peer-reviewed critique argues Microsoft did not conclusively prove its topological qubit technology worked — one year after the Majorana 1 debut.
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Qualcomm Names Meta as First Dragonfly Data Centre Customer
Qualcomm revealed Meta as the launch customer for its C1000 data centre chip, marking its most concrete push yet into AI infrastructure.
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Jensen Huang: Smuggled Chips Won't Build Viable AI Infrastructure
Nvidia's CEO told shareholders national security beats any commercial opportunity, and that data centers built on smuggled chips are a dead end.
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OpenAI and Broadcom Debut Jalapeño, a Custom Inference Chip
OpenAI's first in-house silicon is a reticle-sized ASIC built in nine months, targeting LLM inference workloads with no disclosed benchmark numbers.
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Morgan Stanley doubles China humanoid robot forecast to 50,000
The bank now expects 50,000 humanoid robots to ship in China this year, citing a shift from stage demos to real factory and retail deployments.
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xLight Raises $350M to Challenge ASML's EUV Stranglehold
The Pat Gelsinger-chaired startup wants to build a rival EUV light source — and chip hardware is suddenly a venture darling again.
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China Tops the Supercomputer List With a CPU-Only Machine
China's LineShine system posted 2.198 exaflops on the standard benchmark using only domestic CPUs - but the real story is that China chose to submit it at all.
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Qualcomm Bets on ByteDance to Escape the Phone Market Slump
Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, a move that signals the chipmaker's pivot away from the saturating smartphone market.
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OpenAI and Broadcom Debut the Jalapeño AI Chip
OpenAI's first in-house silicon, built with Broadcom, targets AI inference workloads for models like ChatGPT and Codex.
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OpenAI Unveils Jalapeño, Its First In-House AI Chip
OpenAI's Broadcom-built Jalapeño chip targets inference workloads and signals a serious push to reduce the company's dependence on Nvidia.
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Qualcomm Is Buying AI Startup Modular
Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Modular, the AI infrastructure startup behind the Mojo programming language and MAX engine.
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Foldable iPhone Ultra Targets July Production Despite Hinge Noise
Apple's book-style foldable is heading to mass production in late July, with hinge defects largely resolved and a September launch still in play.
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TSMC Raising Prices Across All Advanced Nodes
Price hikes covering 74% of TSMC's wafer revenue will hit Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and others with increases reportedly in the 5%-10% range.
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SK Hynix Files $29B Nasdaq ADR to Fund AI Memory Fabs
The raise is a ceiling, denominated in won and subject to change, and the fabs it funds won't reach volume output until 2027.
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A100 Servers Triple in Price as China's AI Chip Supply Dries Up
With smuggling routes shut and legal imports blocked, Chinese buyers are paying triple for aging Nvidia AI hardware with nowhere else to turn.
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South Korea's chip bonuses are now an inflation problem
The Bank of Korea warns that record performance payouts at Samsung and SK Hynix could spill into broader wage growth and push prices higher.
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Apple iPhone Fold on Track for September Reveal
Supply chain signals suggest Apple will unveil its first foldable iPhone in September, though a reveal and a ship date are not the same thing.
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Samsung UFS 5.0 Hits 10.8 GB/s Reads, Closing In on SSD Territory
Samsung's new UFS 5.0 mobile storage spec posts sustained read speeds that rival consumer SSDs, a threshold mobile flash has never crossed.
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Nearfield Instruments Raises $380M to Inspect Chips at Atomic Scale
The Rotterdam firm's Series D is the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, with sovereign funds betting on atomic-scale chip inspection.
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SK Hynix Tops Samsung on South Korea's Stock Market
Fueled by a 340% rally this year, SK Hynix's HBM dominance pushed its market cap past Samsung's for the first time since 2000.
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visionOS 27 Beta 2 Brings a Smarter Siri and New Spatial Tricks
Apple's second visionOS 27 developer beta adds a repositionable Siri orb, spatial panoramas, and a Thórsmörk environment with curved app windows.
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AMD Brings FSR 4.1 Upscaling to RX 7000 GPUs Early
AMD is rolling out FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3 graphics cards ahead of its promised July timeline, with RDNA 3 APU support also in development.
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iPad Air Gets 12GB RAM in 2026 M4 Refresh
Apple's latest iPad Air jumps to 12GB of RAM with the M4 chip, edging ahead of some laptops on paper.
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Norwegian Researchers Built a Robot That Slices Salmon
A three-armed robot with a tactile sensor can now slice and plate salmon sashimi, built by a Norwegian research team.
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High-end gaming mice lose DPI when moved slowly
Pixel sensor firmware throttles DPI at low speeds, affecting even flagship models.
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SMIC 7nm Teardown: Better Metal Pitch Than Intel 18A, Lower Density
A SemiAnalysis teardown of Huawei's Kirin 9030 finds SMIC's 7nm process beats Intel 18A on metal pitch but trails on density by 38%.
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NVIDIA's Edge AI Hardware Ships Without CPU Energy Monitoring
A hardware audit finds the GB10 platform exposes only GPU wattage, leaving agentic AI workloads' real energy costs unmeasured.
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FPGAs Beat GPUs on Efficiency With a Pruned Lookup-Table Trick
Pruning lookup-table matrix multiplication on FPGAs delivers 4.2x better energy efficiency than CUDA, though accuracy takes a moderate hit.
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IMEC's 325GHz chip platform takes aim at 6G's cost problem
IMEC expanded its RF silicon interposer platform to handle signals up to 325GHz, targeting the manufacturing bottleneck that could keep 6G from scaling.
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UC San Diego Is Building a Data Center from 2,000 Old Pixel Phones
Researchers stripped surplus Pixels to bare motherboards and chained them into a Kubernetes cluster that already beats AWS on grading latency.
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Adani and Jabil Announce AI Hardware Push in India
Adani and Jabil announced plans for an AI hardware manufacturing platform in India, but disclosed no investment figure, timeline, or product specifics.
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China Bars Infineon from Selling GaN Chips After Court Loss
China's Supreme People's Court upheld an injunction against Infineon, handing domestic rival Innoscience a major win in an ongoing multi-region patent dispute.
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Nvidia Raises $25B in First Bond Sale Since 2021
Overwhelming demand let Nvidia upsize a $20 billion offering to $25 billion after orders topped $85 billion in a single afternoon.
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Enflame Wins $888M IPO Approval, the Last of China's Chip Four
Tencent-backed Enflame is the final member of China's homegrown AI chip quartet to win stock exchange listing approval, seeking $888 million.
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Intel Arc G3 Handhelds Get a First Look at Computex
Multiple gaming handhelds built on Intel's Arc G3 debuted at Computex 2026, marking the chip's entry into a segment AMD has owned since the Steam Deck.
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A DIY x86 BIOS Gets DOS Running on a Behringer Mixer
A hobbyist wrote a custom x86 BIOS from scratch to boot DOS on the Behringer DDX3216, a rack-mount digital mixer with no business running a general-purpose OS.
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China Opens Photonic Computing Lab to Outmaneuver US Chip Curbs
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's new photonic computing lab signals Beijing's bet that light-based chips can substitute for the silicon it can no longer import.
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Samsung Claimed Shortage to Deny an RMA. Its Amazon Store Has Plenty.
Louis Rossmann is taking Samsung to small claims court after it cited a memory shortage to deny his SSD warranty, while selling the drive on Amazon.
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Asus Anti-Melt GPU Cable Has Reportedly Melted
A photo shows a fried ROG Equalizer connector, the cable Asus sold as the fix for Nvidia's long-running melting problem.
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DJI Sues Insta360 for Copying the Camera It Cannot Sell in the US
DJI filed two patent suits against Insta360's Luna series on the same day the Luna Ultra went on sale, targeting a market gap DJI itself cannot fill.
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Nvidia Finds a New China Workaround in Its Vera CPU
After export controls gutted its GPU sales in China, Nvidia is now pitching its Vera CPU, a product that may sidestep current restrictions.
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What a $10 Million F1 Simulator Does That a $50K Rig Cannot
Latency, not motion range or graphics fidelity, is the key reason Formula 1 driver simulators cost 100 times more than high-end consumer rigs.
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Biwin Bets $1.86B on NAND Supply Staying Tight
The SSD maker locked in a two-year fixed-price chip deal worth more than half its annual revenue, signaling it expects no relief from the memory crunch anytime soon.
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Framework Laptop 13 Pro Slips a Month Over Touchpad and Display Issues
Hardware defects in the haptic touchpad and display have pushed Framework's Pro-tier 13-inch back by roughly four weeks.
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MSI Builds a 27-Inch QD-OLED Monitor Around Mac Workflows
The PRO MAX 271UPXW12G offers 4K at 120Hz with Mac-specific color sync and brightness controls, positioning itself in a gap Apple hasn't filled.
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AI's Power Hunger Is Pulling Automakers Into Energy Storage
Soaring electricity demand from AI data centers is drawing GM, Ford, and others into a stationary battery market Tesla has spent years building.
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Samsung Heavy Bets on Floating 50MW AI Data Centers
The South Korean shipbuilder is partnering with a Greek shipowner and Supermicro to put server racks on ships powered by LNG fuel cells.
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Insta360 Launches Luna Ultra at $770 to Challenge DJI's Pocket Camera
The Luna Ultra pairs a Leica Summicron lens with a detachable OLED screen that works as a wireless controller up to 65 feet from the camera.
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TSMC Expands N2 and Packaging to Meet AI Chip Demand
TSMC is simultaneously ramping 2nm production across multiple fabs and scaling CoWoS packaging capacity to match.
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Penn State's Eye-Inspired Sensor Takes on a Self-Driving Blind Spot
A Penn State sensor that mimics how the eye handles brightness shifts could help self-driving cars and robots stay accurate when lighting changes fast.
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Logitech's Foldable Mouse Bets on Nostalgia and Nomadic Work
The $79.99 Mobi Fold collapses to pocket size and charges for a month in one minute, targeting workers who never stay in one place.
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Supermicro Needs $7 Billion to Buy Parts for Its $39B Server Backlog
The server maker says it has $39 billion in AI orders from 20-plus customers but needs fresh equity just to afford the components.
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Fujikura raises cable prices as hyperscalers have no alternative
Tokyo-based Fujikura is raising prices on AI data centre cables, and its CEO's reasoning is simple: the hyperscalers have nowhere else to go.
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ThinkPad X61 Gets a Coreboot Port
A developer documents porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot, giving the 2007-era laptop an auditable, open-source firmware stack.
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Prinano Claims Photonic Chips Without DUV Lithography
A Chinese startup says nanoimprint technology lets it make photonic wafers without the Western lithography equipment that export controls have largely cut off.
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TI-84 Plus OS Fully Reverse-Engineered and Published
A complete annotated teardown of the TI-84 Plus operating system is now public, the most thorough look inside Texas Instruments' locked-down firmware yet.
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Google and Nvidia Turn to Intel as TSMC Concentration Gets Risky
Google ordered over three million chips from Intel, while Nvidia tests its fabs, suggesting the industry is quietly hedging its TSMC bets.
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Amazon's Multibillion-Dollar Corning Deal Targets Data Center Fiber
Amazon locked in a multibillion-dollar, multi-year supply agreement with Corning for the optical fiber, cable, and connectivity hardware powering its expanding US data centers.
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Oriole Networks Says Optical Switches Cut Data Centre Power by 81%
The UK startup, backed by AMD and Aria, wants to replace every electrical switch in the data centre core with nanosecond-scale photonics.
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Nvidia and SK Hynix Sign Multi-Year Deal to Co-Design AI Memory
The agreement gives SK Hynix a formal co-development role in the high-bandwidth memory powering Nvidia's next accelerators, not just a supply contract.
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Nvidia's Cancelled RTX 3050 Ti Desktop GPU Resurfaces in Benchmarks
An engineering sample of Nvidia's never-released RTX 3050 Ti desktop GPU surfaced in leaked photos, revealing the Ampere card that quietly never shipped.
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Apple's MacBook Ultra Tipped for Q3 With Hybrid OLED, Two Sizes
A supply chain report suggests Apple is planning its biggest MacBook redesign in years, pairing a new display technology with two chassis options.
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra Goes All-In on Nvidia RTX Spark
At Computex 2026, Microsoft designers explained the engineering choices behind putting a chip built for AI workstations into a laptop.
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Starlink Firmware Hints at a New Standard Dish Revision
A Ukrainian repair specialist found a 'rev5' dish reference buried in a Starlink firmware update, suggesting SpaceX has a new hardware generation in the pipeline.
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Every IP KVM Tested in One Homelab
Jeff Geerling ran a hands-on comparison of IP KVM devices, the hardware that gives remote keyboard and BIOS-level access to a networked machine.
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Be Quiet!'s New Case Has Room for Seven Hard Drives
The component maker's latest enclosure pitches itself on performance, but seven HDD bays tell a more specific story.
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Waymo's Retired Robotaxi Batteries Will Power the Grid
Waymo has partnered with B2U Storage Solutions to redirect spent battery packs from its autonomous fleet into stationary grid storage.
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Apple Scraps Vision Pro Sequel, Pivots to Smart Glasses
Apple's incoming CEO has reportedly cancelled both Vision Pro 2 and Vision Air, replacing them with two smart glasses products planned for 2027 and 2029.
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Corsair's Flagship 1600W PSU Gets Smaller and Safer
The refreshed AX1600i adds pin monitoring, new GPU power sockets, and a reduced footprint - but Corsair hasn't named a price yet.
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TSMC Says AI Demand Has Outrun Its Capacity
The world's leading chipmaker says AI orders have exceeded what it can deliver, despite an ongoing US factory expansion.
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Gigabyte Debuts a microATX Case with a 16-Inch LCD Built In
Gigabyte's new case integrates a 16-inch display directly into the chassis, the logical endpoint of PC hardware's screen-on-everything era.
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Nvidia Plans N2X and N3 RTX Spark Chips, Doubling Down on AI PCs
Jensen Huang confirmed two more RTX Spark generations are already in the pipeline, signaling to OEMs and developers that this platform is not a one-off.
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Dell's Panther Lake XPS Laptops Are Not Equal
A hands-on comparison found a dramatic performance gap between two XPS configurations running Intel's new Panther Lake chips.
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Asus ROG Pushes OLED to 540Hz at Computex 2026
The ROG Strix XG259QWPG Ace raises the refresh rate ceiling, while a portable ePaper display offers a quieter counterpoint for everyday screen users.
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PC Prices Set to Rise 17% on a Prolonged Memory Crunch
IDC forecasts a 17.3% average price increase for PCs in 2026 as a memory shortage that was supposed to ease keeps grinding on.
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MSI's New OLED Gaming Monitor Offers Three Refresh Rate Modes
Shown at Computex 2026, MSI's tri-mode OLED gives gamers a menu of refresh rate options, while a Mac-focused display targets the port-starved productivity crowd.
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Microsoft's Majorana 2 Claims Qubits 1,000x More Reliable
The follow-up to last year's disputed Majorana 1 chip promises a thousandfold jump in qubit reliability, though independent verification is still nowhere in sight.
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Microsoft Builds a Surface Desktop for AI Dev Workloads
The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a new stationary machine from Microsoft built for AI development, aimed at developers who want desk-bound compute power.
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Microsoft's Arm Dev Box Picks Nvidia Over Qualcomm
Microsoft's new miniature developer PC runs Nvidia's Arm architecture, a quiet departure from its years-long Qualcomm partnership.
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Microsoft's Dev Box Packs Nvidia RTX Spark for Local AI Work
A compact Windows desktop powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chip lets developers run AI models locally, without the cloud.
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Apple Silicon Makes Tiny macOS Virtual Machines Practical
A deep dive finds macOS VMs on Apple Silicon run at near-native speed and can shrink to surprisingly small sizes.
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Uber wants drivers to become sensors for self-driving cars
The ride-hail giant plans to turn its millions of drivers into a data-collecting network for autonomous vehicle companies.
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Apple bumps Mac mini entry price to $799
The cheapest Mac mini is gone — the compact desktop now starts $200 higher than before.
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Apple's Mac Mini Drought Will Last Months
Chip shortages and AI hobbyist demand mean the compact desktop won't be easy to find until late summer.
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Toilet Maker Toto Pivots to Chips Amid Memory Shortage
The Japanese bathroom fixture company is doubling down on ceramics used in NAND production as the industry faces a supply crunch.
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Apple Says AI Demand Left Mac Supply Short Again
Apple executives acknowledged they misjudged how many people would want Macs for AI work, and the shortage isn't ending soon.