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• Asus unveils its first Wi-Fi 8 router — ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro offers up to 2x real-world throughput uplift over Wi-Fi 7

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• TP-Link announces its first consumer Wi-Fi 8 roadmap — Archer 8 routers scheduled to arrive in October 2026, pending FCC approval

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• TSMC CEO Says Company's Chip Supply Won’t Meet AI-Fueled Demand for Years

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• TSMC schedules 1.4nm mass production for 2028, targets sub-1nm pilots in 2029

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• Sandisk brings back affordable storage to rescue buyers from the SSD crisis — new 320 and 520 SATA SSDs are ready to launch

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• Nikon weaponizes lower prices to break ASML's lithography monopoly — tech giant leverages in-house manufacturing to slash prices to lure back American chipmakers

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• TSMC employees threaten Samsung-style strikes over bonus cut rumors despite a 58% profit jump

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• Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortages

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• You may not like them, but AI upscalers are currently saving PC gaming

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• Cooler Master is bringing active cooling to DDR5 RAM, promising up to 15-degree temperature drops — 'MasterDIMM' combines G.SKILL memory with a built-in fan, kits run up to 128GB

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• The hidden cooling bottleneck inside liquid-cooled AI data centers: liquid cooling eliminates system airflow, creating a hidden thermal bottleneck for 'left-behind' components like memory and SSDs

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• Radxa's 2026 Qualcomm hardware: Dragon Q8B and Q5E SBCs, DragonStation and DragonBay NAS systems

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• Silicon Motion new SM2524XT PCIe 5 controller achieves 14GB/s read and 12GB/s write speeds with up to 2.5 million IOPS and up to 25% higher performance-per-watt, designed for AI inference

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• Prototype of the ‘world’s first fluid circuit board’ can be physically rewired in less than a minute, startup claims — could make hardware iteration 1,000 times faster than traditional PCB

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• 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — only 25% have any plans to try and attempt a new build in the next 12 months

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• Senior TSMC executive said that surging electricity ‌demands from AI are making energy efficiency rather than computing power the main constraint shaping future computer chip development

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• China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offshore wind for power

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• Global OLED Monitor Shipments Rose by 78% YoY for 1Q26, Bolstered by the Release of QD-OLED Panel Supply

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• ASML says first chips made with High-NA EUV machines to arrive in months

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• AMD, Broadcom and Google Intensify Anti-Nvidia Offensive as AI Semiconductor Landscape Faces Potential Realignment

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• Up to 256 MB FERRIT modular F-RAM storage device preserves critical data for up to 200 years

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• Micron's Virginia fab begins producing America's most advanced DRAM memory — fab expansion to quadruple output, easing DDR4 shortage for automotive and defense sectors

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• TCL CSOT shows revolutionary 14-inch laptop Oxide LCD with 0.01Hz refresh and 50% power reduction

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• South Korean startup is betting in liquid cooling built into the chip package itself

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• Corsair teases Corsair Pro mini PCs in it's new workstation lineup

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• Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM —non-volatile device switches in 40 picoseconds while generating almost no heat

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• Equal1 Single Rack Quantum Computer at Dell Tech World 2026

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• RAM crisis could soon get worse as disruption in Strait of Hormuz shipping hits supply chain hard, specifically with the supply of hydrofluoric acid

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• AMD now controls 38.1% of all x86 CPU market value and 46.2% of all x86 server CPU revenue share

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• Broadcom Targets Mass-Market Broadband With 10G PON and Wi-Fi 8 SoCs

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• Fake Samsung SSD spotting comes to CrystalDiskInfo as AI crunch drives sophisticated counterfeit market — free open-source software can flag clones by checking firmware, PCI Vendor ID

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• Google TPU 8i for Inference and TPU 8t for Training Announced

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• Trump says China is blocking Nvidia H200 purchases despite US approval — says country 'chose not to' sanction purchases, pushing homegrown chips instead

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• Global semiconductor sales hit nearly $300 billion in Q1 2026 (+ 25% from the previous quarter) chips are on track to top $1 trillion for this year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association

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• SK Group chairman predicts the DRAM shortage will continue through 2030 due to limited wafer capacity and long production lead times

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• China’s Lisuan begins shipping 6nm 7G100 GPUs to early customers

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• TSMC Hits Pause on ASML’s Newest Lithography for A13 Process

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• Meta will beam sunlight from space to power AI data centers, solar-collecting satellites will orbit 22,000 miles above Earth — firm reserves 1 Gigawatt of orbital solar energy and 100 Gigawatt-hours of long-duration storage

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• Samsung and SK hynix warn AI-driven memory shortages could last until 2027 and beyond, as HBM demand explodes — customers already reserving supply years ahead, while the wider DRAM market begins to tighten

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• Global silicon wafer shipments rose 13.1% year-on-year in Q1 2026, driven mainly by strong AI data center demand

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• DRAM prices to increase by up to 63% in Q2, NAND Flash by up to 75%, new report says

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• DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design

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• Electronic devices based on gallium oxide can operate at temperatures even colder than deep space, researchers have found

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• AI agent designs a complete RISC-V CPU from a 219-word spec sheet in just 12 hours — comparably simple design required 'many tens of billions of tokens'

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• Record-breaking anode-free battery hits 1,270 Wh/L energy density, ‘doubles’ EV range

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• CPU shortage is reportedly 'more acute' than memory but shorter, as the industry banks on Intel 18A

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• New cost-effective DDR5 memory 'HUDIMMs' show around 50% reduction in throughput with single subchannel — Two HUDIMMs are as fast as a single stick of regular DDR5 RAM

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• TSMC ramps up 3nm & 2nm chip production in fabs in US, Japan, Taiwan with an increased CAPEX to $56bln

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• Intel Core Series 3 will be produced in the US, reducing dependence on TSMC

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