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Samsung won more than $200 billion of Broadcom chip work through 2030
Samsung signed an MOU with Broadcom worth more than $200 billion through 2030 across memory, 2nm foundry and advanced packaging. Nvidia locked up SK Hynix the same day.
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Google blamed the Pixel 11 price hike on RAM. A gigabyte now costs $12, up from $2.80.
HBM stacks for AI accelerators outbid the DRAM in phones and laptops. Qualcomm, Roku and Google have all repriced, and IDC sees PC prices up 18.3% this year.
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AMD's Helios rack packs 72 GPUs and 31TB of memory to take on Nvidia
AMD launched the Instinct MI455X and its Helios rack-scale system, tying 72 GPUs and 31TB of HBM4 into one machine to challenge Nvidia's data-center grip.
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Nvidia wants to own every chip inside the AI data center
Nvidia already dominates AI GPUs. Now it's pushing to supply the CPU, the network, and the whole rack. Here's who that squeezes and whether buyers benefit.
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Flipper Zero's 700 KB flash wall: the firmware future is now community-driven
Flipper Devices says the Flipper Zero isn't abandoned, but a 700 KB flash limit is pushing firmware work onto the community while its team builds new hardware.
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Realta Fusion pulled electricity straight from a fusion plasma. That's a first, not net power.
Realta Fusion says it converted fusion plasma energy directly into electricity on its WHAM device, an apparent industry first. It is not net-energy gain.
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China built the world's fastest supercomputer without a single US chip
A Chinese system called LineShine debuted at No. 1 on the TOP500 at ISC'26, running entirely on domestic CPUs co-designed with Huawei. Here's what that means.
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South Korea's $576 billion bet on AI chips runs through Samsung and SK Hynix
South Korea announced a roughly $576 billion (W900 trillion) AI-chip push led by Samsung and SK Hynix, targeting HBM, DRAM fabs, and AI data centers.
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IBM's 'sub-1nm' chip is a lab milestone, not a product you'll buy soon
IBM showed a 0.7nm 'nanostack' transistor with ~100 billion transistors on a fingernail. It's real research, but the name is marketing and shipping silicon is years out.
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Qualcomm is chasing a $10 billion AI-chip deal. The target is Jim Keller's RISC-V startup.
Qualcomm is in talks to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, per Reuters and The Information. The bet: a RISC-V challenger to Nvidia, not just phones.
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DRAM and storage chips quadrupled in a year. Now Apple says price hikes are unavoidable.
Tim Cook told the WSJ that Apple price rises are unavoidable as an AI-driven memory crunch quadruples DRAM and NAND costs across every consumer device.
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Snap's $2,195 Specs are real standalone AR glasses almost no one can afford
Snap shipped Specs, standalone AR glasses that Evan Spiegel calls the next computer. The hardware is real; the $2,195 price is the problem, and the stock fell.
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Renault ditched rare-earth magnets in its EVs in 2012. China's export squeeze made that look smart
A Renault explainer on rare-earth-free EV motors hit Hacker News. Here's how electric cars run without the magnets China controls, and who's shipping them.
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GM is spending $900 million on a battery bet that could cut $6,000 off an EV truck
GM is pouring $900M into a new LMR battery plan, betting a cheaper chemistry gets its EVs to price parity with gas trucks by 2028. Here's the play.
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Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops run 120-billion-parameter models locally, no cloud needed
Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops put a Grace Blackwell superchip and 128GB of unified memory in a notebook, aimed at running 120B-parameter models offline.
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Blue Origin lost a fully fueled New Glenn in a pad fireball a week before its Amazon launch
A static fire test destroyed a fully fueled New Glenn at Cape Canaveral on May 28. Nobody was hurt, but the launch manifest just slipped.
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Oura shrank the Ring 5 by 40% and raised the price $50 to $399
Oura's Ring 5 is 40% smaller than the Ring 4, adds live workout tracking and an AI Advisor, and costs $50 more. Here's what's new and whether it's worth it.
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AMD walled off Linux Vivado behind a paid tier. The free FPGA tier is now Windows only.
Vivado 2026.1 introduces a five-tier licensing model. The free BASIC tier supports Windows only; Linux requires the paid CORE tier. FPGA hobbyists are pushing back.