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Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are being sued for allegedly colluding to restrict access to DDR3 and DDR4 memory standards, driving up prices by over 700% over four years and leaving no room in the market for competitors.
As Tom's Hardware reports, the complaint was filed in the US District Court for Northern California and accuses the memory makers of price-fixing by coordinating their pivots to
2026-07-01
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When I started my journey into AI development, I felt like I stumbled through a secret door in the technology world. For years, the barrier to building with AI was surmountable only by well-funded enterprises with seasoned engineers, not by curious tinkerers. Now, thanks to Nvidia's Grace Blackwell GB10 “superchip,” the door is open to anyone with insatiable curiosity.
I documented my initial exc
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Samsung and SK Hynix, two of the world's largest memory chip makers, have jointly announced an investment of over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs in southwestern Korea, and an extra $52 billion to develop a new high-bandwidth memory (HBM) packaging hub.
Although the new facilities will take years to come online, they should help ensure that future memory demands are easier to meet than
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Samsung and SK Hynix, two of the world's largest memory chip makers, have jointly announced an investment of over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs in southwestern Korea, and an extra $52 billion to develop a new high-bandwidth memory (HBM) packaging hub.
Although the new facilities will take years to come online, they should help ensure that future memory demands are easier to meet than
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UPDATE 7/1: Supermicro denies that its offices in Taiwan were raided by local authorities. But the company says four Supermicro Taiwan employees were held for questioning.
"Let me also correct one point that has been widely misreported: Supermicro’s offices in Taiwan were not raided by any government authorities. Rather, this week’s events reflect our ongoing collaboration with Taiwanese authorit
2026-06-30
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Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are being sued for allegedly colluding to restrict access to DDR3 and DDR4 memory standards, driving up prices by over 700% over four years and leaving no room in the market for competitors.
As Tom's Hardware reports, the complaint was filed in the US District Court for Northern California and accuses the memory makers of price-fixing by coordinating their pivots to
2026-06-30
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Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are being sued for allegedly colluding to restrict access to DDR3 and DDR4 memory standards, driving up prices by over 700% over four years and leaving no room in the market for competitors.
As Tom's Hardware reports, the complaint was filed in the US District Court for Northern California and accuses the memory makers of price-fixing by coordinating their pivots to
2026-06-29
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Following a big price hike earlier this week, Apple is reportedly lobbying the Trump administration for approval to buy memory chips from Chinese semiconductor firm CXMT.
Apple chalked up the price increases, which hit iPads and MacBooks, to the ongoing memory chip shortage, which is threatening to push up prices for many types of consumer electronics.
CXMT is listed on the government's 1260H li
2026-06-26
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The company behind the processors in many of the smallest computers people use is making a bid to enter some of the largest computers in operation today.
Qualcomm used its investor day event in New York this week to unwrap a new family of components for data centers. “We have a comprehensive portfolio to enter the next phase of the data center market," CEO Cristiano Amon said near the start of th
2026-06-11
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Memory is in short supply, and GPU generations are delayed, so there's been a lot of talk of older cards making a comeback. But while Nvidia board partner Manli's 12GB RTX 3060 re-release makes sense, the RTX 3050 it's re-launching alongside it with a mere 6GB of VRAM is a harder sell.
The RTX 5050 is already available at less than $300, and on-board graphics offers more compelling performance in
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AMD isn't taking Nvidia's recent performance projections on its new Vera CPUs lying down. After Team Green approved some Phoronix test results showing Vera beating AMD's Epyc server chips in several tests, AMD has released estimated comparisons of its next-generation Venice Epyc chips based on its Zen 6 architecture, Tom's Hardware reports. It claims the per-rack performance of its new chips could
2026-06-04
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Nvidia kicked Computex off with massive news: a full-scale consumer laptop play, powering a new class of power-user AI PCs with its RTX Spark superchip.
This isn't just about throwing an Nvidia sticker on a keyboard deck and dropping a jumped-up Arm chip inside. Nvidia’s move represents a major shift in laptop hardware. By taking the heavy-lifting AI components of Nvidia’s DGX Spark developer des
2026-06-03
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TAIPEI—In the wake of Nvidia's huge announcement of RTX Spark laptops, and the subsequent news that Microsoft was leading the charge with the Surface Laptop Ultra—arguably the flagship for this new class of laptops—we've been eager to get our hands on the new Surface and see what these new Nvidia-powered laptops will actually look and feel like. (Hit the preceding link for a rundown of all the par
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Nvidia all but stole the show before Computex even began with the unveiling of RTX Spark, a new Arm-based chip built with MediaTek that marks the company’s boldest push yet into the PC market. Nvidia calls it a “superchip,” positioning it as far more than just another laptop processor.
The RTX Spark takes the fight straight to Qualcomm and its Snapdragon line of Arm-based chips for PC laptops,
2026-06-03
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Nvidia's upcoming RTX Spark PC chip is coming to laptops, but also mini PCs, and Microsoft will be among the vendors developing one.
At its Build conference, Microsoft introduced the Surface RTX Spark Dev box, which has been designed to run Windows 11 Pro and has enough computing power to run AI models locally.
The mini PC isn’t exactly for consumers, though; Microsoft is pitching it to softwa
2026-06-02
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Nvidia kicked Computex off with massive news: a major consumer laptop play, powering a new class of AI PCs with a laptop superchip called the RTX Spark.
This isn't just about throwing an Nvidia sticker on a keyboard deck and dropping a jumped-up Arm chip inside. Nvidia’s move is a step change in laptop hardware. By taking the heavy-lifting AI components of Nvidia’s DGX Spark developer desktop, em
2026-06-01
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Alongside Nvidia's keynote at Computex, Microsoft announced a new Surface PC—the Surface Laptop Ultra—which will feature Nvidia's new RTX Spark superchip. This Microsoft and Nvidia team-up is the first of several major announcements we expect to see during Computex as the chip maker makes a play to power the next generation of premium laptops, with an emphasis on AI and gaming.
The Laptop Ultra e