LPDDR5X price explosion as DRAM market tightens
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Smartphone makers face rising costs as wafer supply shifts to AI chips

Prices for LPDDR5X, the low-power DRAM used in premium phones, are about to skyrocket.

Samsung gears up for 2nm and HBM4 mass production
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Korean giant profits surge

Samsung is charging ahead into 2026 with plans to begin mass production of next-generation memory and chip technologies, including its long-awaited 2nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process.

AMD pulls an Intel with rebranded Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100
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“New” CPUs are so old they could be steam powered 

AMD has once again dipped into the recycling bin, rolling out the so-called Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100 series, chips that are, in reality, lightly renamed versions of its old Zen 2 and Zen 3+ mobile processors.

Fujitsu clings to optical drives
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Japan still loves its Blu-rays.

Fujitsu has shocked the tech world by launching a new laptop that includes a Blu-ray drive, something most vendors buried years ago.

Intel jacks up the price of Raptor Lake
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Lunar Lake fails to take off

Troubled Chipzilla's next-generation Lunar Lake processors are sitting unloved on shelves while everyone scrambles to buy the older, cheaper Raptor Lake chips.