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Thursday 29 October 2026
Analysis: Google opens its AI chips to rivals but won't say if it makes money
Google is now supplying its tensor processing units (TPUs) to companies it competes with, including Anthropic and Apple. On Alphabet's third-quarter earnings call, management gave...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Asus notebook shipments hold steady as commercial PCs offset gaming decline
The global notebook market faces steep cost increases for key components including memory and processors, but Asus is keeping annual shipments relatively stable through its commercial...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Japan reportedly moves to hand H3 rocket launches to Mitsubishi Heavy as early as 2027
Japan is preparing to shift operations of its flagship H3 rocket from the state space agency to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), a move aimed at cutting launch costs and making the...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
SK Hynix says customers want more than twice the HBM it can supply
SK Hynix said customers are seeking more than twice the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) volume it can currently supply, as moves toward shorter memory stacks reflect supply shortages rather...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Cloud AI costs drive demand for on-premises computing, squeezing Asus RTX Spark supply
Asus and Intel on October 27 unveiled the new commercial laptop Asus ExpertBook A7 in Taiwan, as on-premises AI computing devices gain attention from enterprises and creators alongside...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix eye 2Q27 shipments of 8-layer HBM4 to Nvidia
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are targeting the second quarter of 2027 to begin volume shipments of eight-layer HBM4 memory to Nvidia, ZDNet Korea reported on October 26,...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Meta says compute, not demand, now limits Muse; pushes shared standard for AI shopping agents
Meta Platforms is limiting the Muse personal AI agent to the US and Canada for now, saying that compute costs are the main reason it hasn't gone global.
Thursday 22 October 2026
Samsung patent boosts AI server memory efficiency without adding GPUs
Samsung Electronics has disclosed a patent application targeting GPU memory shortages when multiple users simultaneously submit requests to AI servers. By calculating data-transfer...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Memory surge drives phone makers from LTPO to LTPS
Soaring memory prices are intensifying cost pressure across the display industry, prompting some smartphone manufacturers to downgrade panel specifications. Market estimates indicate...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Micron skips 4F² for 3D DRAM as CXMT pushes ahead
Micron does not plan to commercialize 4F² DRAM even as Chinese rival ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) advances the technology, saying the architecture offers limited benefits...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Meta's advertising engine keeps pace with its AI build-out as legal costs cut into profit
Meta Platforms' third quarter showed that its core advertising business is still growing fast enough to carry one of the largest infrastructure programs in the technology industry...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix reportedly upgrading China NAND fabs to fend off YMTC amid softening US stance
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are upgrading their NAND flash factories in China to make chips with more than 200 layers, Reuters reported on October 21, citing four people...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
CXMT's next DRAM milestone: 4F² server memory with hybrid bonding by end-2026
Chinese DRAM maker CXMT is targeting higher-density manufacturing. At a recent shareholder meeting, management pledged to enter what it called the "uncharted territory" of extreme...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Starlink, FPT deploy satellite internet terminals on Vietnam islands
Vietnam has installed 10 Starlink satellite internet terminals on islands near Haiphong, highlighting how low Earth orbit networks are being used to extend connectivity beyond conventional...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Amazon open-sources TorchNeuron to bridge PyTorch, AWS Trainium
To lower AI hardware adoption barriers and offer alternative compute choices, Amazon has announced TorchNeuron—a native backend allowing existing PyTorch code to run directly...