Photoncycle raises €15M to scale seasonal energy storage in Europe
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Norwegianenergy storage scale-up Photoncycle has raised €15 million in Series A fundingto address a key renewable energy challenge in Europe: enabling households tostore surplus summer solar power for...
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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.
- 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
Gartner warns sub-$500 PCs will vanish by 2028
Phison demands prepayments as NAND prices surge 500%
Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 11:22 am / permalink 20002 / 11 stories in 4 days
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
Back to Top / Friday, February 27, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 19899 / 15 stories in 7 days
Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026
msmash / slashdot - Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second-quarter earnings call, a stark sign of how aggressively hyperscalers are locking down storage s…
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iPhone 18 Pro To Feature Two Wireless Chip Upgrades This Year, Says Analyst, Along With A Smaller Dynamic Island & More
Omar Sohail / wccftech - Apple’s entire iPhone 18 lineup has been reported to forego Qualcomm’s 5G modems in favor of the company’s C2 baseband chip, which was reportedly in development when the iPhone 16e launched last year. However, according to one analyst, the Cupertino firm …
Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 5:20 pm / permalink 19152 / 6 stories in 21 days
Intel and SoftBank Subsidiary Saimemory Partner on Next-Gen Z-Angle Memory
techpowerup - Intel and SoftBank subsidiary Saimemory have signed an agreement to work together on developing and selling Z-Angle Memory (ZAM) technology aimed at AI and high-performance computing tasks. ZAM is described as a stacked DRAM architecture designed to go be…
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Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September
msmash / slashdot - Tom's Hardware: Extensive research into the pricing of some of the best hard drives on the market for large capacity, economical storage indicates that prices are beginning to increase sharply, with some of the most popular models on the market seeing inc…
Back to Top / Friday, January 16, 2026, 9:20 am / permalink 18021 / 2 stories in 7 wks
Two new uGreen NASync storage systems have on-device AI
appleinsider - Two Intel-based NAS systems, the NASync iDX6011 and iDX6011 Pro, were unveiled by Ugreen at CES 2026, bringing local AI features and faster networking to the company's NAS lineup.Ugreen iDX6011 Pro NASUgreen's new models expand the NASync lineup with high…
Back to Top / Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 17551 / 4 stories in 2 months
5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience, which is roughly the age of the universe — crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser
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Back to Top / Monday, December 15, 2025, 2:20 am / permalink 16953 / 4 stories in 2 months
Signal extends backup feature to iOS users
Sarah Fielding / engadget - Fortunately, we live in a time when most information can be recovered from another device or the cloud. Now, iPhone users can add another app to that list. Signal has announced that secure backups are now available for iOS devices. It follows a similar la…
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Leil Secures €1.5M To Make Hyperscale Storage Infrastructure Accessible For All
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Tallinn-based data storage software startup Leil has secured €1.5 million in Seed funding, led by Karma Ventures and joined by Specialist VC. The enterprise storage market, valued at around $22 billion and growing nearly 20% annually, faces skyrocketing d…
Back to Top / Thursday, November 6, 2025, 3:20 am / permalink 15715 / 3 stories in 4 months
Sizable Energy raises $8M to launch ocean-based energy storage
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Italy-based Sizable Energy, a developer of long-duration ocean energystorage, has raised $8 million in a round led by Playground Global, withparticipation from Verve Ventures and Unruly Capital.Sizabl...
Back to Top / Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 7:20 am / permalink 15305 / 5 stories in 4 months
Synology Reverses Drive Validation Policy
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Synology announced the release of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.3, adding several useful new features to its NAS OS.The post Synology Reverses Drive Validation Policy appeared first on Thurrott.com.
Back to Top / Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 10:20 am / permalink 15022 / 8 stories in 4 months
Raspberry Pi 500+ packs a mini PC into a mechanical keyboard
techspot - As founder Eben Upton explains, it all starts with a high-quality mechanical keyboard with removable keycaps and individual addressable RGB LEDs. Light users are invited to cycle through a collection of preset patterns or craft their own design for a trul…
Back to Top / Friday, September 26, 2025, 1:20 pm / permalink 14877 / 3 stories in 5 months
The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD
Richard Speed / theregister - Big performance on offer, but be prepared to spend $200 HANDS ON Raspberry Pi has unveiled a fully loaded version of its computer-in-a-keyboard, featuring oodles of RAM, an SSD, and a clicky, mechanical keyboard. However, you'll pay a relative premium for…
Back to Top / Thursday, September 25, 2025, 4:20 am / permalink 14849 / 7 stories in 5 months
LaCie Rugged SSD4 4TB review: Impressive 40 Gbps speed on Mac and PC
tomshardware - Other drives perhaps make more sense for either macOS or Windows, but the SSD Pro4 is the best drive we’ve tested for those who want fast performance without having to think about what platform they’re plugging into.
Back to Top / Monday, September 15, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 14532 / 2 stories in 5 months
New Insta360 Go Ultra offers 4K capture in a small form
appleinsider - Announced on Thursday, Insta360's new Go Ultra camera delivers 4K video in a pocket-sized form factor with magnetic mounting features.Insta360 launches the GO Ultra 4K compact cameraInsta360 has introduced the Go Ultra, a compact, hands-free camera. The d…
Back to Top / Thursday, August 21, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 12794 / 5 stories in 6 months
OWC's Express 1M2 80G is a blisteringly fast portable SSD
appleinsider - The new OWC Express 1M2 80G Portable SSD is Thunderbolt 5-compatible external storage that has massive transfer speeds over 6,000MB/s.OWC Express 1M2 80G Portable SSDFast storage is essential in industries that have high data throughput needs, such as con…
Back to Top / Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 12702 / 2 stories in 6 months
Mini SSDs pack NVMe performance into a microSD-sized form factor
techspot - Chinese flash storage supplier Biwin, which provides SSDs for HP, Acer, and other manufacturers, initially unveiled what it dubbed mini SSDs at the Embedded World 2025 event in March. However, they appeared to receive little attention until GPD and One-Ne…
Back to Top / Friday, August 15, 2025, 7:20 am / permalink 12387 / 5 stories in 6 months
iPhone 17 Pro to Start at $1,049 With Doubled Base Storage
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 Pro will have a starting price that is $50 more than the iPhone 16 Pro but it will come with a minimum 256GB of storage, doubling the base capacity compared to last year's model. The information comes from Chinese leaker Instant…
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