Valve hints at Steam Machine delay… but the plot thickens

digitaltrends - Valve says memory and storage shortages may delay the Steam Machine and related hardware, while updated listings showing “Coming soon” suggest development is still progressing behind the scenes. The post Valve hints at Steam Machine delay… but the plot th…

#hardware #gaming #semiconductors #business #supplychain #manufacturing #technology #gadgets #steam #memory

Valve now says "we hope" to ship the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller in 2026 -- a downgrade from its earlier promises -- due to memory shortages. www.theverge.com/games/890986...

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SSD-RAMageddon is so dire that a company defining product that was announced last year may not even see a release until NEXT year.

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No Gabe Cube this year?

12 min / bsky / @teanah.bsky.social / teanah.bsky.social

Valve has updated a blog post to say that it is shipping the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller in 2026.

12 min / bsky / @theverge.com / theverge.com

Never mind! Valve: "we will be shipping all three products this year." www.theverge.com/games/890986...

12 min / bsky / @seanhollister.bsky.social / seanhollister.bsky.social

Valve hints at Steam Machine delay… but the plot thickens

56 min / digitaltrends

Valve doesn't sound confident the Steam Machine will ship in 2026

2 hrs / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Valve’s Steam Machine may not launch this year

3 hrs / theverge / Jay Peters

Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage

BeauHD / slashdot - Apple has removed the 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio, leaving 256GB as the new maximum. The remaining 256GB upgrade has also increased in price and now faces longer shipping delays as demand grows "due to consumers seeking machines suitable fo…

#ai #hardware #semiconductors #apple #chips #supplychain #technology #gadgets #memory

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Without warning, Apple has stopped selling the Mac Studio with its previous maximum configuration of 512GB RAM, perhaps because of worldwide shortages.

9 hrs / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

9 hrs / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Apple pulls $4,000 512GB Mac Studio upgrade option as AI RAM squeeze continues, raises 256GB upgrade price — M3 256GB upgrade now costs $2,000

10 hrs / tomshardware

Forget 512GB RAM -- Apple has dropped the Mac Studio's $4,000 upgrade

12 hrs / appleinsider

Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage

25 hrs / slashdot / BeauHD

Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage

27 hrs / reddit / /u/pi314156

Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage

29 hrs / macrumors / Juli Clover

Nvidia could bring back the RTX 3060 in mid-March as the memory crisis bites

techspot - At the beginning of January, leaker hongxing2020, who has a long and impressive record when it comes to revealing Nvidia's plans, claimed Team Green has told its partners that the RTX 3060 will be returning in the first quarter of 2026.Read Entire Article

#gaming #semiconductors #nvidia #gpu #business #supplychain #pricing #technology #gadgets #memory

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Expected To Make A Comeback In Mid-March

34 hrs / wccftech / Sarfraz Khan

Nvidia could bring back the RTX 3060 in mid-March as the memory crisis bites

36 hrs / techspot

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Could Return Mid-March

39 hrs / techpowerup

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 With 9 GB GDDR7 Memory Rumored To Debut At Computex

Sarfraz Khan / wccftech - The "upgraded" GeForce RTX 5050 is expected to arrive in June this year at the Computex event. NVIDIA Will Reportedly Debut its 9 GB RTX 5050 GPU at Computex; Same GPU, but Newer GDDR7 Memory With an Additional Gigabyte of VRAM Instead of increasing the V…

#gaming #semiconductors #chips #nvidia #gpu #supplychain #performance #technology #gadgets #memory

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 With 9 GB GDDR7 Memory Rumored To Debut At Computex

35 hrs / wccftech / Sarfraz Khan

NVIDIA reportedly plans RTX 5050 with 9GB memory and RTX 5060 variant

36 hrs / tbreak / Mufaddal Fakhruddin

Nvidia reportedly working on RTX 5050 with 9GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus, featuring 28 Gbps GDDR7 modules — RTX 5060 with cut-down GB205 GPU also planned

37 hrs / tomshardware

Why Old Game Boy Games Actually Look Worse Than You Remember

bgr - If you're old enough, you remember playing on your original Game Boy the same way people are attached to their smartphones today, playing games like Tetris.

#ai #cloud #anthropic #genai #business #chatgpt #apps #technology #memory #api

Government and surveillance clash over Anthropic's limits (6)
OTHER: unrelated tech, culture, and market pieces (4)
Unprecedented demand causes major Claude outage (1)
Users flock to Claude — new tools, integrations, features (6)
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Government and surveillance clash over Anthropic's limits

From Anthropic to Iran: Who sets the limits on AI's use in war and surveillance?

3 days / techxplore

Sen. Wyden Warns of Mass Surveillance Amid Pentagon’s Fight With Anthropic

3 days / gizmodo / Matt Novak

Anthropic 'made a mistake' in Pentagon talks and should 'correct course,' FCC boss says

3 days / cnbc

Your Anonymous Posts Cost $4 to Trace. The Price Is Still Falling.

3 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout

3 days / cnbc

Federal AI shakeup: State Department swaps Claude for aging GPT-4.1

3 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

OTHER: unrelated tech, culture, and market pieces

RootsTech, Anthropic, Tillyverse, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 3, 2026

3 days / researchbuzz / ResearchBuzz

How Long Can Anthropic Play Defense?

3 days / wsj / Dan Gallagher

Why Old Game Boy Games Actually Look Worse Than You Remember

3 days / bgr

Why Missile Alerts and War Updates Trigger Doomscrolling

3 days / wired / Farah Ibrahim

Apple (AAPL) Stock: New MacBook Air M5 Debuts With 512GB Base Storage at $1,099

Trader Edge / parameter - Apple (AAPL) launches MacBook Air M5 at $1,099 with 512GB storage, 4x faster AI performance, Wi-Fi 7, and availability starting March 11. Pre-orders open March 4.The post Apple (AAPL) Stock: New MacBook Air M5 Debuts With 512GB Base Storage at $1,099 appe…

#hardware #apple #wireless #cpus #pricing #macbook #performance #gadgets #memory #arm

Apple unveils M5 MacBook Air: faster chip, 512GB, Wi‑Fi 7 (17)
Price pain: MacBook Air base price rises, global market reaction (7)
Should you upgrade? M5 vs M4 and Air vs Pro (4)
Unrelated beats: AI legal and policy concerns (2)
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Apple unveils M5 MacBook Air: faster chip, 512GB, Wi‑Fi 7

New MacBooks, the iPhone 17E, and more: everything we know about Apple’s March 2026 announcements

3 days / theverge / Jay Peters

New M5 MacBook Air And Pro Announced With Double The Storage And Blazing Speeds

3 days / bgr

Apple Doubles Down: The New M5 MacBook Air Packs More Storage and Wi-Fi 7

3 days / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

How to preorder Apples new M5 MacBook Airs

3 days / mashable

New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices

3 days / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Apple unveils new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with M5

3 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Apple updates MacBook Air with M5 chip and greater storage

3 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

Apple's new MacBook Air gets M5 and doubles starting storage — base price increases to $1,099

3 days / tomshardware

Apple’s new MacBook Air M5 starts with double the storage

3 days / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

New M5 MacBook Air gets double the storage, Wi-Fi 7, and a higher price

3 days / appleinsider

(PR) Apple Introduces the New MacBook Air with M5

3 days / techpowerup

Apple MacBook Air M5 announced: faster, more storage, and a higher price

3 days / theshortcut / Max Buondonno

Apple’s New M5 MacBook Air Starts With 512GB of Faster SSD Storage

3 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Apple Unveils The All-New M5 MacBook Air: M5 Chipset, 512GB Of Base Storage, A Faster SSD, The N1 Wireless Chip, A Liquid Retina Display, And Up To 18 Hours Of Battery Life

3 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Apple Introduces New MacBook Air With M5 Chip, 512GB Base Storage, Wi-Fi 7

3 days / iclarified

Apple Brings MacBook Air Up to Speed With M5 Chip

3 days / cnet / Matt Elliott

Apple Announces MacBook Air With M5 Chip and 512GB Base Storage

3 days / macrumors / Hartley Charlton

Price pain: MacBook Air base price rises, global market reaction

Apple raises MacBook prices across the board as M5 chips, new displays signal AI-first strategy

3 days / cnbc

MacBook Air M5 UAE Price Starts at Dhs 4,599: Specs, What's New, and Should You Upgrade?

3 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

MacBook Air gets faster M5 chip, double the storage, and a price hike

3 days / digitaltrends

Apple Announces M5 MacBook Air With Double the Starting Storage

3 days / gizmodo / James Pero

Apple (AAPL) Stock: New MacBook Air M5 Debuts With 512GB Base Storage at $1,099

3 days / parameter / Trader Edge

The MacBook Air M5 starts at $1,099, up $100 from the M4

3 days / engadget / Kris Holt

M5 MacBook Air in Canada: Price Up $100 but Now Starts With 512GB Storage

3 days / iphoneincanada / Gary Ng

Should you upgrade? M5 vs M4 and Air vs Pro

The New M5 MacBook Air Is Here: Should You Upgrade?

3 days / cnet / Matt Elliott

MacBook Air M5 vs. MacBook Air M4: What's changed beyond the Apple silicon

3 days / engadget / Rami Tabari

MacBook Air M5 vs MacBook Pro M5: The Dhs 2,600 Question

3 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

Apple Reveals New MacBook Pro And Air: What's New And How Much They Cost

3 days / slashgear

Unrelated beats: AI legal and policy concerns

India's Top Court Angry After Junior Judge Cites Fake AI-Generated Orders

3 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Wyoming’s GRANITE Act Hints at Global Speech Battle to Come

3 days / techpolicy

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These updated M5 chips were specifically designed to make the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops better at handling intensive AI tasks.

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Apple unveils new iPad Air with M4 chip

Wayne Williams / betanews - Apple has introduced a new iPad Air powered by its M4 silicon. It raises unified memory to 12GB, adds Wi-Fi 7 and updated cellular hardware, and keeps the same $599 starting price. The upgrade increases performance over the previous M1 and M3 models, whil…

#hardware #apple #wireless #cpus #pricing #ipad #performance #gadgets #memory #arm

Apple's Next-Gen iPad To Use The iPhone 17 Pro's Best Feature

3 days / bgr

Apple launches 30% faster iPad Air to rival MWC hardware

3 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Apple Updated the Wrong iPad

4 days / cnet / Scott Stein

Apple unveils new iPad Air with M4 chip

4 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

Apple's iPad Air gets M4 performance upgrade without price increase

4 days / techspot

There's not much in the new M4 iPad Air update other than speed

4 days / appleinsider

Anthropic's Claude can now absorb your past conversations with other AI chatbots

Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic has made switching to its Claude AI chatbot easier than ever. The company announced a new memory import tool that can extract all of a competing AI chatbot's memories and context of you into a text prompt that can be fed into Claude.With Anthrop…

#ai #dataprivacy #anthropic #genai #business #chatgpt #ux #assistant #memory

Boycott and Pentagon spat — Claude surges in app charts (2)
Memory import — Switchers bring full chat history to Claude (11)
Other — Opinion pieces, ads, and company missteps (2)
Outages amid surge — Millions locked out during Claude crash (5)

Boycott and Pentagon spat — Claude surges in app charts

Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future

4 days / bigtechnology / Marty Swant

A ChatGPT boycott helps send Anthropic’s Claude soaring

4 days / qz / Shannon Carroll

Memory import — Switchers bring full chat history to Claude

Claude, surging in popularity, can now copy rival chatbots’ memories

3 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

Claude makes its AI memory feature free for all users in battle against ChatGPT

3 days / digitaltrends

Anthropic makes switching from competitors easier with new transfer memory tool

3 days / siliconangle / James Farrell

Anthropic Adds Free Memory Feature and Import Tool to Lure ChatGPT Users to Claude

4 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

Anthropic upgrades Claude’s memory to attract AI switchers

4 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Anthropic brings memory to Claude's free plan

4 days / engadget / Igor Bonifacic

Switching to Anthropic? Claude can now take your memories from ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot

4 days / fastcompany / Jennifer Mattson

Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude. Here’s how to make the switch

4 days / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

Anthropic Improves Feature to Switch From Competitors as Users Call for ChatGPT Boycott

4 days / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Anthropic's Claude can now absorb your past conversations with other AI chatbots

4 days / engadget / Jackson Chen

Anthropic's new prompt forces ChatGPT to reveal everything it knows about you

4 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Other — Opinion pieces, ads, and company missteps

[Sponsor] npx workos: An AI Agent That Writes Auth Directly Into Your Codebase

4 days / workos / Daring Fireball Department of Commerce

Anthropic done goofed

4 days / substack / David Shapiro

Outages amid surge — Millions locked out during Claude crash

Claude AI suffers global outage as millions lose access

3 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours

3 days / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Is It Just Me – Or Are Outages Everywhere Lately? (Claude, GitHub, Supabase)

3 days / ycombinator

Elevated Errors in Claude.ai

3 days / ycombinator

Claude Surge Triggers Widespread Outage Amid Washington Tensions

4 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Entry-level PC market to ‘disappear’ by 2028 — rising memory prices pile more strain on consumer PC market

tomshardware - A 130% surge in combined DRAM and SSD prices by the end of 2026 will push PC prices up 17% compared to 2025 levels and wipe out the sub-$500 PC market.

#hardware #semiconductors #chips #storage #supplychain #education #economy #manufacturing #technology #memory

AI data centers starve budget smartphones of memory chips (1)
Gartner warns sub-$500 PCs will vanish by 2028 (6)
Phison demands prepayments as NAND prices surge 500% (4)

AI data centers starve budget smartphones of memory chips

AI Data Centers Starve Budget Smartphones of Memory Chips

4 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Gartner warns sub-$500 PCs will vanish by 2028

Extinction Watch: Sub-$500 Computers in Danger, According to Report

4 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Entry-Level PC Segment Might Disappear by 2028, Claims Gartner

4 days / techpowerup

Entry-level PC market to ‘disappear’ by 2028 — rising memory prices pile more strain on consumer PC market

4 days / reddit / /u/imaginary_num6er

Entry-level PC market to ‘disappear’ by 2028 — rising memory prices pile more strain on consumer PC market

4 days / tomshardware

Gartner says sub-$500 entry level PCs could disappear by 2028 as memory prices surge

4 days / techspot

Entry level PCs costing less than $500 ‘will disappear by 2028’, research firm predicts

4 days / reddit / /u/PaiDuck

Phison demands prepayments as NAND prices surge 500%

Phison is now demanding customers pre-pay with shorter timelines — NAND squeeze affecting everyone in the SSD supply chain

4 days / tomshardware

Phison Seeks Customer Prepayments as NAND Flash Prices Surge 500%

4 days / reddit / /u/sr_local

Phison Seeks Customer Prepayments as NAND Flash Prices Surge 500% Over Six Months

4 days / techpowerup

Phison Shifts NAND Supply to ‘Prepayment’ Model to Make Sure It Secures the Cash Before Allocating Any Supply to Customers

4 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Apple announces iPhone 17e and new iPad Air powered by M4

Adam Vjestica / theshortcut - Apple has revealed two new pieces of hardware

#hardware #mobiletech #semiconductors #apple #iphone #cpus #gadget #ipad #memory #arm

Apple's 'Big Week' rollout: multi-day launches, press events, retail rush. (8)
On site: iPad Air M4 — faster M4, 12GB RAM, Wi‑Fi7. (26)
On the ground: iPhone 17e — MagSafe, A19, doubled storage, $599. (35)
Other stories: crypto outlier and cross-product rundowns at launch. (1)
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Apple's 'Big Week' rollout: multi-day launches, press events, retail rush.

Apple Declares It’s Keeping Prices the Same Despite the RAM Apocalypse

4 days / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

Apple Prepares for a ‘Major Rush’ as New Budget MacBook Looms

4 days / idropnews / Chris Hauk

Apple is anticipating high demand from its March 4 releases

4 days / mashable

Everything Apple announced today: iPhone 17e and M4 iPad Air

4 days / engadget / Kris Holt

Apple launches lower cost iPhone 17e and a new iPad Air powered by its M4 chip

4 days / cnbc

Apple announces iPhone 17e and new iPad Air powered by M4

4 days / theshortcut / Adam Vjestica

Apple's Next Launch Starts Today

4 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Apple kicks off “Big Week” with iPhone 17e and M5 MacBook rollout

4 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

On site: iPad Air M4 — faster M4, 12GB RAM, Wi‑Fi7.

iPad Air M4 vs. iPad Air M3: The few new things in Apple's midrange tablet

4 days / engadget / Rami Tabari

Apple Introduces New iPad Air With M4

4 days / apple / John Gruber

The iPad Air is finally getting the M4 chip: How and when to preorder

4 days / mashable

Apple Shares 'Introducing the New iPad Air' Ad [Video]

4 days / iclarified

The M4 iPad Air Is Here, and It’s More ‘Pro’ Than We Expected

4 days / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Apple Unveils The All-New M4 iPad Air, Entailing Up to 50 Percent More Unified Memory, The N1 Wireless Chip And The C1X Modem, With A Starting Price Of $599

4 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Apple's New M4 iPad Air Looks More Like The Pro Than Ever - But Does It Matter?

4 days / bgr

iPad Air gets faster M4 chip, more memory, and better connectivity without a price hike

4 days / digitaltrends

New iPad Air (2026) UAE Price Starts at Dhs 2,499: M4 Chip, Specs, and How It Compares to iPad Air M3 and iPad Pro

4 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

Apple refreshes iPad Air with M4 chip, here’s Canadian pricing

4 days / mobilesyrup / Jonathan Lamont

Apple Refreshes its 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Airs with M4 Chips

4 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Apple keeps the iPad Air fresh with M4 chip upgrade and 12GB of RAM

4 days / reddit / /u/tuldok89

Apple speeds up the iPad Air with an M4 upgrade, starting at $599

4 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

$599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost

4 days / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Apple just announced the new M4 iPad Air, coming March 4 for $599

4 days / mashable

Apple’s iPad Air Gets an M4 Upgrade for the Same Starting Price

4 days / gizmodo / James Pero

Apple Gives the iPad Air a Small Power Boost

4 days / wired / Luke Larsen

The new iPad Air only has one big change you need to know about

4 days / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

(PR) Apple Introduces the New iPad Air Powered by M4

4 days / techpowerup

Apple’s New iPad Air Gets M4 Chip: Here is the Full Canadian Pricing

4 days / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Apple Introduces New iPad Air With M4, 12GB Memory, and Same $599 Starting Price

4 days / iclarified

Apple updates the iPad Air with an M4 chip

4 days / engadget / Nathan Ingraham

Apple's Midrange iPad Gets an M4 Chip Bump, Arriving March 11

4 days / cnet / Scott Stein

Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4

4 days / ycombinator

Apple Unveils iPad Air With M4 Chip, Increased RAM, Wi-Fi 7, and More

4 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Apple launches a new iPad Air with an upgraded M4 processor

4 days / theverge / Andrew Liszewski

On the ground: iPhone 17e — MagSafe, A19, doubled storage, $599.

Should You Buy the iPhone 17e or 16e? Breaking Down Apple’s New Entry iPhone

4 days / iphoneincanada / Gary Ng

iPhone 17e Battery Life Remains Unchanged From The iPhone 16e, Making It The Worst Model In This Generation When Comparing Runtimes

4 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Apple Introduces iPhone 17e With MagSafe and A19

4 days / slashdot / BeauHD

iPhone 17e vs iPhone 16e: Apple's low-end, compared

4 days / appleinsider

iPhone 17e vs. iPhone 16e: What's new on Apple's latest $599 handset

4 days / engadget / Rami Tabari

Apple unveils the iPhone 17e with three key upgrades

4 days / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

How to preorder the iPhone 17e, Apples new budget phone

4 days / mashable

Apple Shares 'Meet iPhone 17e' Video: A Whole Lot for a Lot Less

4 days / iclarified

iPhone 17e Arrives: Apple Fixes Its Biggest Budget Mistakes

4 days / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

iPhone 17e Launch: Apple (AAPL) Boosts Base Storage to 256GB at $599 Price Point

4 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Apple announces new iPhone 17e, a $599 budget smartphone with MagSafe

4 days / mashable

iPhone 17e’s A19 SoC Has One Major Difference Between The Same Chipset Powering The Base iPhone 17’s Innards, At Least On Paper

4 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Apple Introduces iPhone 17e

4 days / apple / John Gruber

iPhone 17e Announced With 6 New Features (And A Surprising Price)

4 days / bgr

Apple’s ‘Affordable’ New iPhone 17e: Why You Should—or Shouldn’t—Get It

4 days / wsj / Nicole Nguyen

Apple unveils faster, sturdier, and more spacious iPhone 17e at the same $599 ask

4 days / digitaltrends

An existing iPhone 16e case will still fit the iPhone 17e

4 days / appleinsider

Apple unveils $599 iPhone 17e with A19 chip

4 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Apple announces new iPhone 17e with double storage, same price

4 days / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

Apple Announces The iPhone 17e: Super Retina XDR OLED Screen, The Now-Ancient Notch, The A19 Chip, And The C1X Modem, All For $599

4 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Apple bakes in AI smarts into its new $599 iPhone 17e

4 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Apple Debuts iPhone 17e: See All Canadian Pricing and Storage Options

4 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Apple Announces iPhone 17E with A19 Chip and MagSafe Support

4 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

iPhone 17e: Everything You Need to Know About Apple's Most Affordable iPhone in 2026

4 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

Apple's new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599

4 days / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

iPhone 17e arrives with A19 chip upgrade and MagSafe charging

4 days / appleinsider

Apple unveils iPhone 17e: 256GB storage and A19 chip for $599

4 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

iPhone 17E Debuts With A19 Chip for $599

4 days / cnet / Patrick Holland

Apple Announces iPhone 17e With the One Feature the iPhone 16e Should Have Had

4 days / gizmodo / Raymond Wong

Apple introduces the $599 iPhone 17e with MagSafe and twice the storage

4 days / engadget / Anna Washenko,Cherlynn Low

iPhone 17e Now Features 256GB Base Storage

4 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Apple Unveils iPhone 17e With A19 Chip, Apple Intelligence, and 256GB Storage for $599

4 days / iclarified

Apple's Budget iPhone 17e Gets a MagSafe Upgrade

4 days / wired / Julian Chokkattu

Apple Announces iPhone 17e With A19 Chip, MagSafe, and More

4 days / macrumors / Hartley Charlton

Apple announces the iPhone 17E

4 days / theverge / Emma Roth

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The M4 chip used in the new iPad Air does not have the same performance as the iPad Pro version, thanks to core count changes.

4 days / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

iPhone 17e: Smaller Details You Might Have Missed

4 days / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Performance anxiety: iPad Air M4 chip is binned, has only three performance cores

4 days / appleinsider

iPhone 17e: Smaller Details You Might Have Missed

4 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Apple unveils iPhone 17e with A19 chip and MagSafe charging starting at $599

4 days / techspot

Apple Debuts Lower-Cost Version of iPhone 17

4 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Apple refreshes the iPad Air with the M4 chip and more memory to make it better for AI use cases.

4 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

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Apple introduces iPhone 17e - Apple www.apple.com/newsroom/202... 애플, 아이폰 17e 출시 - 최신 A19 칩을 탑재하고 기본 용량을 전작의 2배인 256GB로 늘렸음에도 599달러 (한국 ₩990,000) 라는 시작가로 공개 - 4,800만 화소 퓨전 카메라, 2배 빠른 애플 독자 C1X 통신 모뎀, 내구성이 강화된 6.1인치 화면 및 MagSafe 고속 무선 충전을 지원 (

4 days / bsky / @lunamoth.bsky.social / lunamoth.bsky.social

The base model comes with 256BG of storage, which Apple says is twice the entry storage from the previous generation at the same starting price.

4 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Smartphone Market To Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due To the Memory Shortage Crisis

msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year (YoY) in 2026 to 1.1 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This decline…

#mobiletech #semiconductors #chips #storage #supplychain #economy #manufacturing #technology #smartphone #memory

Analysts: smartphone shipments set for record plunge (4)
Chipmakers race to add capacity; exports surge on demand (3)
Consumers trade in flagship phones amid buyer remorse (1)
Memory drought squeezes devices, hikes prices and delays launches (7)

Analysts: smartphone shipments set for record plunge

Smartphone market poised for 'sharpest decline on record' in 2026

7 days / reddit / /u/Dr_Neurol

Smartphone Market To Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due To the Memory Shortage Crisis

7 days / slashdot / msmash

Global smartphone shipments expected to fall 13% amid memory supply crunch

7 days / techspot

Smartphone Shipments in 2026 to See Sharpest Decline on Record as Memory Crisis Deepens

7 days / reddit / /u/FragmentedChicken

Chipmakers race to add capacity; exports surge on demand

Exports jump 29 pct to record Feb. high on surging chip demand

6 days / co / Oh Seok-min

(URGENT) S. Korea's exports jump 29 pct to US$67.45 bln in Feb. on surging chip demand

6 days / co / Oh Seok-min

Micron Begins Semiconductor Production From $2.75 Bn Sanand Plant Sets Up

6 days / inc42 / Anne Florentyna

Consumers trade in flagship phones amid buyer remorse

iPhone 17 Pro Max becomes most traded-in smartphone as people say they "regret" buying it | The iPhone 17 Pro Max may be Apple’s latest flagship, but it’s quickly becoming the most traded-in iPhone on the market.

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Memory drought squeezes devices, hikes prices and delays launches

Say Goodbye To Low Framerates And Insufficient VRAM With The Skytech Gaming PC, Which Pairs A Ryzen 7 7800X3D And RTX 5060 Ti 16GB For $1,649.99 On Amazon

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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

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Xiaomi launches flagship smartphone as memory price surge threatens sales

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Memory vendor under fire for imposing hefty 15% depreciation fee on returns despite skyrocketing RAM value — user expected RMA replacement but gets hit with a loss instead

6 days / tomshardware

Orange Pi Neo Delayed Due to RAM Crisis: "We Are Now Waiting For a Good Time To Launch"

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PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought

7 days / theregister / O'Ryan Johnson

Global memory chip shortage impacting consumer electronics production

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Smartphone Sales to Plummet 13% in 2026 Due to RAM Crisis, Says IDC

Jeff Carlson / cnet - AI-fueled memory scarcity is hitting the phone market hard this year, particularly for inexpensive, low-end devices.

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AI hardware prices spike; DGX Spark rises $700 (2)
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AI hardware prices spike; DGX Spark rises $700

Nvidia DGX Spark gets 18% price increase as memory shortages bite — Founders Edition now $4,699, up from $3,999

7 days / tomshardware

NVIDIA DGX Spark Sees $700 Price Hike Due To Ongoing Memory Shortages, $4699 New Pricing

7 days / wccftech / Hassan Mujtaba

Chip crunch threatens budget PCs and phones

RAM chip demand driving up PC costs, HP says

7 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns

7 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Chip crunch to hit smartphone, PC shipments in 2026 by over 10pc

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DRAM price surge: suppliers hike quotes and contracts

What is causing the RAM shortage? Chip and supply chain experts explain

7 days / techxplore

The New Memory Prices Quoted by Samsung & SK Hynix for Q2 Are So ‘Absurd’ That Buyers Might Find It Better to Give Up

7 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Samsung secures 100% price hike from Apple for iPhone 17 memory

7 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

IDC warns record 13% smartphone slump in 2026

Smartphone market poised for 'sharpest decline on record' in 2026

7 days / cnbc

Smartphone Sales to Plummet 13% in 2026 Due to RAM Crisis, Says IDC

7 days / cnet / Jeff Carlson

Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage

8 days / ycombinator

Smartphone sales could be in for their biggest drop ever

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Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/008259/memory-price-hikes-will-kill-off-budget-pcs-and-smartphones-analyst-warns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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HP warns RAM now makes up 35% of the cost of building a PC

techspot - Over the past few months, RAM chips used in new PCs have nearly doubled in price. According to HP Inc. CFO Karen Parkhill, memory's share of the PC bill of materials has risen from 15 percent to 18 percent, and now to roughly 35 percent. And that may be o…

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Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher pricetag www.theverge.com/tech/885566/...

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IDC says phone makers will ship only 1.12 billion smartphones as compared to 1.26 billion last year

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Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher pricetag

8 days / theverge / Sean Hollister

This Person Paid $300 for a RAM Kit and Ended Up With a Box Full of Modules Worth Over Ten Times More; Talk About Crazy Luck

8 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

DRAM Shortage Will Cause 'Seismic Shift' in Smartphone Market, But Apple Will Be Less Affected

8 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

IDC: Worldwide smartphone market to decline more than ever in 2026 due to memory shortage driving up costs

8 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Memory shortage could cause the biggest smartphone shipments dip in over a decade

8 days / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

RAM supply is so tight, Samsung may be charging Apple double

8 days / reddit / /u/InsaneSnow45

HP warns RAM now makes up 35% of the cost of building a PC

8 days / techspot

Apple Accepts Samsung’s 100% Price Increase on LPDDR5X Memory

8 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

8 days / reddit / /u/jluizsouzadev

HP warns: RAM now costs 35% of a PC’s total build

8 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

HP says memory costs doubled in one quarter, now account for 35% of PC build materials

8 days / tomshardware

Nvidia warns of constrained supply of gaming GPUs — 'we do believe for a couple of quarters it is going to be very tight'

tomshardware - Jensen Huang expects the supply of gaming hardware to be insufficient in the next two quarters and has limited visibility beyond that.

#gaming #semiconductors #chips #nvidia #gpu #business #supplychain #pricing #memory

Michael Burry flags “troubling” jump in Nvidia’s supply commitments

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As Nvidia’s gaming results underwhelm, the company sees “very tight” quarters ahead

8 days / sherwood / Max Knoblauch

Nvidia warns of constrained supply of gaming GPUs — 'we do believe for a couple of quarters it is going to be very tight'

8 days / tomshardware

NVIDIA Confirms Supply Constraints May Limit Gaming GPU Availability

8 days / techpowerup

NVIDIA confirms GeForce RTX 50 shortages due to the global memory crisis, impacting supply through fiscal 2027

8 days / reddit / /u/sr_local

Nvidia's 6-year-old cloud GPUS completely consumed by compute demand

8 days / reddit / /u/CompetitiveLake3358

NVIDIA’s QoQ Gaming Revenue Takes a Hit as CFO Warns Upcoming Months Will Be “Very Tight” For Gaming GPUs Amid Memory Shortages

8 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

More Lower-Cost MacBook Details Surface Ahead of 'Apple Experience' Next Week

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple is expected to unveil up to five new products next week, including a lower-cost MacBook, and a few more details about the laptop surfaced today.According to supply chain sources who spoke to DigiTimes, the entry-level MacBook will indeed be launchin…

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Hardware compromises & code leaks — Budget MacBook trims features (4)
Pricing & production — Suppliers struggle with component cost spikes (4)
Touchscreen & software changes — Dynamic Island, OLED, touch-optimized macOS coming (4)
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Hardware compromises & code leaks — Budget MacBook trims features

Apple's Budget MacBook Could Skip True Tone and Fast Charging to Cut Costs [Rumor]

9 days / iclarified

New Budget MacBook: Here Are the Rumoured Compromises

9 days / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Compromises for affordability ahead: Code leak spills details on new MacBook

9 days / appleinsider

Leaker Says Apple's Lower-Cost MacBook Will Have These 8 Limitations

9 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Pricing & production — Suppliers struggle with component cost spikes

Apple's 'Budget' MacBook Set for March Launch as Rising Costs Threaten Price Tag [Report]

9 days / iclarified

Rising memory & battery costs complicate Apple's lower-cost MacBook

9 days / appleinsider

More Lower-Cost MacBook Details Surface Ahead of 'Apple Experience' Next Week

9 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

How Apple will target consumers with a lower-cost MacBook -- again

9 days / appleinsider

Touchscreen & software changes — Dynamic Island, OLED, touch-optimized macOS coming

Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook Could Redeem Liquid Glass

9 days / slashgear

From ‘Toaster-Fridge’ to Reality: The Touchscreen Mac is Coming

9 days / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

macOS 27: All the Rumors So Far

9 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Dreaming of a Touchscreen MacBook? You'd Better Be a Fan of Apple's Dynamic Island

9 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

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M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro: What to Expect

9 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

Nobody claimed it was going to be equivalent to a MacBook Pro or even a MacBook Air. A code leak details the budget MacBook having an A18 Pro chip, limits on charging, no True Tone, and more.

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Watch Samsung Unpacked 2026 right here: Galaxy S26 series reveal starts at 10am PT / 1pm ET

techspot - Samsung is expected to reveal at least three phones in San Francisco today: the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. It seems that reports the company dropped plans for a Galaxy S26 Edge (and likely any future Edge models) following weak S25 Edg…

#hardware #semiconductors #chips #samsung #android #supplychain #gadgets #smartphone #memory #bluetooth

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Supply drama: DRAM sourcing, Micron role and internal distributor clash (5)
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Features: AirDrop support and AI's impact on resale values

Samsung Galaxy S26 to launch with AirDrop support

9 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values

9 days / theregister / Dan Robinson

Live coverage: Unpacked launch and promotional stunts

Samsung Is Sending Random Store Credits Just Before The Galaxy Unpacked Event

9 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Watch Samsung Unpacked 2026 right here: Galaxy S26 series reveal starts at 10am PT / 1pm ET

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked live blog: See the latest updates

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Flox Intelligence Raises €2.5M To Scale AI Wildlife Protection Across North America

9 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Supply drama: DRAM sourcing, Micron role and internal distributor clash

Micron Reveals 24 Gbit GDDR7 Memory with 36 Gbps Bandwidth

9 days / techpowerup

Samsung’s Shadowy Internal War That Bungled Its Galaxy Unpacked Event

9 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Micron Confirms 24Gb GDDR7 Modules With 36 Gbps Speeds For Next-Wave of Discrete GPUs

9 days / wccftech / Hassan Mujtaba

Samsung Originally Intended To Charge Apple A 60% Premium For LPDDR5X RAM, But The iPhone Maker’s Desperation Led It Down A Costly Path

9 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Around Half Of The Galaxy S26 Series Units To Sport A Micron DRAM Instead Of One From Samsung

9 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

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Samsung S26 Series Hands-On First Look

9 days / tbreak / Mufaddal Fakhruddin

Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 and Buds 4 Pro Launch With Best Design Yet

9 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Lacks Punchy Upgrades but Boasts New AI Tools

9 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Hands-On: Privacy Display is its New Magic Trick

9 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Samsung Galaxy S26 unveiled with world-first Privacy Display

9 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

Live: Samsung unveils new Galaxy phones

9 days / theverge / Allison Johnson

Samsung Unpacked 2026: live updates from the Galaxy S26 announcement event

9 days / theverge / Nathan Edwards

Turns Out Perplexity Might Be the Sleeper Feature on Samsung's Rumored Galaxy S26

9 days / cnet / Patrick Holland

HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent

Simon Sharwood / theregister - Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company…