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AMD Passed 30% of the x86 Market, Which Is Not the PC Market
Mercury Research puts AMD at 30.3 per cent against Intel's 69.7. The denominator excludes Arm entirely, so Apple Silicon...
Samsung's LPDDR5X-PIM Does the Arithmetic Inside the Memory Chip
LPDDR5X-PIM reports 614 GB/s against 76.8, but that is the bandwidth inside the memory. The host interface is unchanged....
Xiaomi's Homegrown 3nm Chip Is Designed in Beijing and Made in Taiwan
The XRING O3 is the first mobile processor to support LPDDR6, which matters more for on-device AI than its 4.35GHz peak....
Apple Put Its First 2nm Chip in an $899 Mac mini
The M6 brings 12 cores and two 16-core Neural Engines. The spec comparisons are drawn against the M5 and the speed compa...
Nvidia's Vera Has Six Dies and One of Them Holds Every Core
Coverage has compressed the disclosure into 88 cores across six chiplets. The cores sit on a single monolithic die and t...
Apple Music Will Label AI Tracks, Using Whatever The Distributor Declared
Made With AI labels arrive later this year, tagged by labels and distributors rather than detected by Apple. A label tha...
From 30 September, Indonesia, Singapore And Thailand Get Android's New Sideloading Rules First
On certified devices in four launch markets, apps will need a verified developer behind them to install or update normal...
Nevada Approved Thousands Of Robotaxis. Tesla's Own Engineer Says They Will Not Arrive.
The Nevada Transportation Authority granted Tesla up to 5,000 vehicles, Waymo 1,000 and Uber 1,000 across Clark County o...
From Sunday A YouTube View Means Something Different
Views will count from the first frame instead of after about 30 seconds, and the old measure becomes Engaged Views insid...
The Memory Shortage Just Showed Up in Xiaomi's Phone Margin
Smartphone gross margin fell to 8.5 per cent from 11.5, with the company naming memory costs at historically high levels...
Apple Is Building AI Servers in Texas. That Matters More Than the Mac.
Apple opened an Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston with the Commerce Secretary in attendance. It is already shippi...
The Pixel Watch 5 Reports Your Blood Pressure and Insulin Resistance. It Measures Neither.
Google's new watch estimates blood pressure and insulin resistance from pulse, motion and sleep, returning a monthly tre...
Apple Built a Second AI Model to Get Into China. It Is the First Foreigner Allowed One.
The Cyberspace Administration has registered a generative AI service Apple built itself, with Alibaba alongside rather t...
Gemini Reached a Billion People. Google Did Not Say How Many Pay.
Google's assistant crossed a billion monthly actives on 11 August. The composition is more interesting than the total: a...
ChatGPT Just Went Unlimited for Free Users. Read the Word "Text" Carefully.
The message cap is gone for typing, a better model is behind it, and file uploads, images and voice all keep their limit...
Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them.
More than 800 pubs, and the rule is about the recording rather than the device. That distinction is more durable than th...
YouTube Is Doubling What a New Creator Must Earn Before Earning
From February 2027, new applicants need 8,000 watch hours or 20 million Shorts views, double the current bars. The quiet...
Singpass Now Has Passkeys. Four in Five Scams Do Not Steal Your Password
Singpass began supporting passkeys on 1 July. They remove credential theft entirely — and 81.8 per cent of Singapore sca...
RAM Went From $2.80 a Gigabyte to $12. Google's Next Phone Costs More and Carries Less of It
Google has confirmed price rises across the Pixel range, blaming memory costs. Leaked specifications point the other way...
Samsung's Galaxy Z8 Line-Up: the Fold8 Is Not the Fold7's Successor, and That Changes What You Pay
The Fold8 opens S$200 below last year's Fold7 — because it is a new shape, not the replacement. We put both generations...
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