Apple announces iPhone 17e and new iPad Air powered by M4
Adam Vjestica / theshortcut - Apple has revealed two new pieces of hardware
- 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.
On site: iPad Air M4 — faster M4, 12GB RAM, Wi‑Fi7.
On the ground: iPhone 17e — MagSafe, A19, doubled storage, $599.
Other stories: crypto outlier and cross-product rundowns at launch.
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Qualcomm Launches First Wi-Fi 8 Chip at MWC, Targets 6G Commercial Networks by 2029
Harkaram Grewal / implicator - Qualcomm unveils FastConnect 8800 Wi-Fi 8 chip with 11.6 Gbps speeds and a 30-company 6G coalition targeting 2029 commercial networks.
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Nvidia to invest $4 billion in two photonics companies
cnbc - Coherent and Lumentum will both receive $2 billion each from the chip giant as part of the strategic investment.
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AMD details Ryzen AI 400 desktop with up to 8 cores, Radeon 860M graphics — APUs won’t be available as boxed units, only in OEM systems
tomshardware - After announcing Ryzen AI 400 APUs earlier this year, AMD has finally revealed the specifications for the chips. However, they’re targeting OEM systems, and they top out lower than AMD’s Ryzen AI 400 mobile lineup.
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite is the biggest smartwatch chip upgrade in 3 years
Matt Swider / theshortcut - Six things to know about Qualcomm's new 3nm wearable platform that brings on-device AI, satellite messaging, and 5G to your wrist
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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…
- 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
Chipmakers race to add capacity; exports surge on demand
Consumers trade in flagship phones amid buyer remorse
Memory drought squeezes devices, hikes prices and delays launches
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The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare
David Pierce / theverge - In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bit of tech and a really useful new feature - and a lot o…
- Accessories & features — S Pen change, Buds deals, third-party accessories (3)
- Camera quality and AI edits — Reviewers slam photos; authenticity concerns (4)
- Pricing backlash — Price hikes provoke buyer skepticism and broader concern (4)
- Thermals & Exynos fix — Testing shows throttling largely resolved (1)
Accessories & features — S Pen change, Buds deals, third-party accessories
Camera quality and AI edits — Reviewers slam photos; authenticity concerns
Pricing backlash — Price hikes provoke buyer skepticism and broader concern
Thermals & Exynos fix — Testing shows throttling largely resolved
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Japan Injects $1.7 Billion Into Rapidus, Retains Veto Power Over Chip Startup
Harkaram Grewal / implicator - Japan secures veto power over Rapidus with golden share as $1.7B funding round from 32 companies exceeds targets for 2nm chip venture.
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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.
- AI hardware prices spike; DGX Spark rises $700 (2)
- Chip crunch threatens budget PCs and phones (3)
- DRAM price surge: suppliers hike quotes and contracts (3)
- IDC warns record 13% smartphone slump in 2026 (4)
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AI hardware prices spike; DGX Spark rises $700
Chip crunch threatens budget PCs and phones
DRAM price surge: suppliers hike quotes and contracts
IDC warns record 13% smartphone slump in 2026
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Intel Foundry Manager Kevin O'Buckley Departs for Qualcomm
techpowerup - The head of Intel Foundry, Kevin O'Buckley, is leaving the company to join Qualcomm. He will take on the role of Executive Vice President of Global Operations and Supply Chain at Qualcomm, effective March 2, 2026. At Qualcomm, O'Buckley will oversee globa…
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Nvidia posts $68.1 billion quarter as AI demand surges worldwide
Camila Nogueira / betanews - Nvidia reported record financial results on Wednesday, delivering $68.1 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure continued to accelerate. The quarterly figure rose 73% from a year earlie…
- Investors balk as Nvidia stock tumbles post-earnings (4)
- Markets wobble: tech slump and crypto give back gains (5)
- On the floor: Nvidia's record $68.1B AI quarter (3)
Investors balk as Nvidia stock tumbles post-earnings
Markets wobble: tech slump and crypto give back gains
On the floor: Nvidia's record $68.1B AI quarter
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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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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.
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Callosum Raises $10.25M in Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Callosum, a London, UK-based AI infrastructure company for AI models, raised $10.25M in funding. The round was led by Plural, with participation form Advanced Research, Invention Agency (ARIA), Charlie Songhurst (Meta), Stan Boland (FiveAI), John Lazar. T…
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China freeze on H200 chip sales clouds Nvidia’s record earnings
scmp - Nvidia has yet to generate any revenue from its H200 chips in China and does not know if any sales will be allowed in the country, the company said, even as the US chip giant reported record quarterly revenue on surging demand for data centre processors.W…
- China export freeze: H200 sales blocked (3)
- Other: GPU supply shortages, AI fears and market reaction (2)
- Record quarter: Nvidia tops forecasts, guides even higher (12)
- Vera Rubin: first samples ship, Rubin platform imminent (3)
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China export freeze: H200 sales blocked
Other: GPU supply shortages, AI fears and market reaction
Record quarter: Nvidia tops forecasts, guides even higher
Vera Rubin: first samples ship, Rubin platform imminent
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Apple is quietly assembling a US chip supply chain, one layer at a time
techspot - TSMC's vast complex outside Phoenix is central to that effort. The 2,000-acre site is slated to host six fabrication plants along with supporting infrastructure. Apple is positioning itself as the anchor customer: the company plans to purchase more than 1…
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Nvidia set to report quarterly results after the bell
cnbc - Nvidia has been the best performer on Wall Street this year among tech's megacap companies.
- Inside Nvidia's tech: Vera Rubin and chip-deal competition (2)
- Nvidia's record quarter and blowout guidance reshape AI market (13)
- Traders position ahead of Nvidia earnings; markets jitter (4)
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Inside Nvidia's tech: Vera Rubin and chip-deal competition
Nvidia's record quarter and blowout guidance reshape AI market
Traders position ahead of Nvidia earnings; markets jitter
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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…
- Features: AirDrop support and AI's impact on resale values (2)
- Live coverage: Unpacked launch and promotional stunts (3)
- Other: unrelated tech and startup news (1)
- 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
Live coverage: Unpacked launch and promotional stunts
Other: unrelated tech and startup news
Supply drama: DRAM sourcing, Micron role and internal distributor clash
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Sambanova introduces new AI accelerator, partners with Intel to deploy Xeon CPUs for inferencing and agentic workloads — Sambanova claims SN50 chip is three times more efficient than Nvidia B200
tomshardware - SambaNova says its SN50 AI accelerator platform is about five times faster and three times more efficient than Nvidia's B200. In addition, the company signs a pact with Intel to offer Xeon-based AI systems to enterprises and governments.
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 6:20 am / permalink 19711 / 4 stories in 9 days
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…
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