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Apple nearly doubled its inventory in the June quarter to $11.09 billion, a hedge against a memory market the company describes as the worst pricing environment it has ever navigated. On the earnings call for Q3 fiscal 2026, executives said memory prices rose in every consecutive quarter from December through June and are expected to […]

The United States government’s national security restrictions on foreign-made robotics have a definition problem, and the definition has a weight limit. When the Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List on July 28 to include advanced robotic devices, the category turned out to be broad enough to sweep in the devices vacuuming American living rooms, […]

The gap between fast volatile memory and slow persistent storage, known to computer architects as the memory wall, has been a persistent drag on system performance for decades. A team of researchers from the University of Seoul has proposed a way to tear down a section of that wall by integrating DRAM and NAND flash […]

Firefox 153 landed this week with one of Mozilla’s larger feature updates in recent memory, pairing a security refresh covering 63 vulnerabilities with new capabilities that address long-standing user requests. The headline addition is HDR video playback on Windows. Users with HDR-enabled displays and the feature activated in Windows display settings can now view high-dynamic-range […]

Taiwanese prosecutors have detained an employee of Nvidia as part of an investigation into the alleged illegal export of AI servers to China, pulling one of the world’s most valuable companies into a smuggling case that has already touched Supermicro and drawn US federal charges. The Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office said a suspect surnamed Chang […]

When Washington restricted exports of advanced Nvidia chips to China in 2022, the policy’s stated goal was to slow the development of Chinese artificial intelligence. Four years later, Chinese AI labs have not only kept pace but are distributing their best models freely to the world, a strategy that turns export controls into a distribution […]

Twenty years ago this week, Intel released a chip that did not simply beat its competition; it changed the metric by which competition was measured. The Core 2 Duo, codenamed Conroe, launched on July 27, 2006, at the Fragapalooza gaming festival in Edmonton, Canada, carrying 291 million transistors on a 65-nanometer process and a radically […]

The structural shift in the memory industry from commodity DRAM to high-bandwidth memory for artificial intelligence is about to inflict its most severe blow yet on the companies that supply the modules consumers and businesses actually buy. Apacer Technology’s CEO warned July 24 that chip allocations from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to independent module […]

Global corporate spending on artificial intelligence reached $581.7 billion in 2025, a 130 percent increase over the previous year, according to the Stanford HAI AI Index. Enterprise adoption rates hit 88 percent, the highest ever recorded. And yet fewer than 6 percent of organizations report achieving meaningful financial impact from their AI investments, defined as […]

The vision that Elon Musk first pursued in 1999 when he co-founded the online bank X.com has come full circle. In late July 2026, the social platform formerly known as Twitter began rolling out X Money to Premium and Premium+ subscribers across the United States, offering peer-to-peer transfers, a Visa debit card, and a 6 […]