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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

Smartphone market poised for 'sharpest decline on record' in 2026

7 days / reddit / /u/Dr_Neurol

Smartphone Market To Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due To the Memory Shortage Crisis

7 days / slashdot / msmash

Global smartphone shipments expected to fall 13% amid memory supply crunch

7 days / techspot

Smartphone Shipments in 2026 to See Sharpest Decline on Record as Memory Crisis Deepens

7 days / reddit / /u/FragmentedChicken


Chipmakers race to add capacity; exports surge on demand

Exports jump 29 pct to record Feb. high on surging chip demand

6 days / co / Oh Seok-min

(URGENT) S. Korea's exports jump 29 pct to US$67.45 bln in Feb. on surging chip demand

6 days / co / Oh Seok-min

Micron Begins Semiconductor Production From $2.75 Bn Sanand Plant Sets Up

6 days / inc42 / Anne Florentyna


Consumers trade in flagship phones amid buyer remorse

iPhone 17 Pro Max becomes most traded-in smartphone as people say they "regret" buying it | The iPhone 17 Pro Max may be Apple’s latest flagship, but it’s quickly becoming the most traded-in iPhone on the market.

5 days / reddit / /u/ControlCAD


Memory drought squeezes devices, hikes prices and delays launches

Say Goodbye To Low Framerates And Insufficient VRAM With The Skytech Gaming PC, Which Pairs A Ryzen 7 7800X3D And RTX 5060 Ti 16GB For $1,649.99 On Amazon

5 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

6 days / tomshardware

Xiaomi launches flagship smartphone as memory price surge threatens sales

6 days / cnbc

Memory vendor under fire for imposing hefty 15% depreciation fee on returns despite skyrocketing RAM value — user expected RMA replacement but gets hit with a loss instead

6 days / tomshardware

Orange Pi Neo Delayed Due to RAM Crisis: "We Are Now Waiting For a Good Time To Launch"

7 days / techpowerup

PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought

7 days / theregister / O'Ryan Johnson

Global memory chip shortage impacting consumer electronics production

7 days / reddit / /u/Novel_Negotiation224

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OpenAI raises $110B at $730B valuation, expands AWS and Nvidia partnerships

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has raised $110 billion in funding at a pre-money valuation of $730 billion. Nvidia Corp. and SoftBank Group PBC provided $30 billion each. The remaining $50 billion came from Amazon Web Services Inc., which has al…


Amazon, Nvidia and partners racing to supply OpenAI's infrastructure.

Nvidia Partners with Groq to Address OpenAI’s Performance Concerns

6 days / parameter / Trader Edge

OpenAI Is Set to Be the Biggest Customer for the Upcoming NVIDIA-Groq AI Chip, Allocating 3GW of Dedicated ‘Inference Capacity’

6 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia’s sales rocket while its shares flatline

6 days / ft

Amazon bets $50 billion on OpenAI as AI infrastructure race heats up

6 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

How Amazon's massive stake in OpenAI could boost its AI and cloud businesses

7 days / cnbc

OpenAI raises $110B at $730B valuation, expands AWS and Nvidia partnerships

7 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher


Insider-trading claim and global rivals escalate the AI arms race.

Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis on the $200B AI CapEx, Chip Wars, and Why Google Might Have No Profits in 2027 — In-Context Cooking

7 days / latent / Latent.Space

DeepSeek to release long-awaited AI model in new challenge to US rivals

7 days / ft

The Great Insider Trading Reckoning Reportedly Hits OpenAI

7 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger


OpenAI faces government talks and surging ChatGPT usage.

OpenAI is negotiating with the U.S. government, Sam Altman tells staff

7 days / reddit / /u/aacool

ChatGPT Has Almost 1 Billion Weekly Users, OpenAI Says

7 days / cnet / Ty Pendlebury


Record $110B raise reshapes OpenAI's valuation and capital power.

OpenAI raises $110 billion in largest-ever private tech funding round, Nvidia throws in $30 billion — AI startup now valued at $730 billion

6 days / tomshardware

[AINews] OpenAI closes $110B raise from Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank in largest startup fundraise in history @ $840B post-money

7 days / latent / Latent.Space

OpenAI closes $40B funding round as AI arms race enters its most expensive phase yet

7 days / siliconcanals / Lachlan Brown

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion To Expand Global AI Infrastructure

7 days / ventureburn / Clinton

OpenAI's $110 billion funding round draws investment from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank

7 days / reddit / /u/ThereWas

OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history

7 days / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467


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The Great Insider Trading Reckoning Reportedly Hits OpenAI https://gizmodo.com/the-great-insider-trading-reckoning-reportedly-hits-openai-2000727838

7 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Back to Top / Friday, February 27, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19897 / 18 stories in 7 days


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.

#semiconductors #techpolicy #chips #government #business #supplychain #asia #manufacturing #technology #japan

Rapidus Secures $1.7 Billion in Funding to Back 2 nm Mass Production Plans by 2027

7 days / techpowerup

Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027

7 days / theregister / Dan Robinson

Japan Injects $1.7 Billion Into Rapidus, Retains Veto Power Over Chip Startup

7 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Rapidus secures $1.7 billion from Japan’s government and private investors for 2nm chip production — company says it is in active discussions with more than 60 potential customers

7 days / tomshardware

Japan bets $1.7B on Rapidus 2nm chips with METI, Toyota, SoftBank backing

7 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Back to Top / Friday, February 27, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19875 / 5 stories in 7 days


Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to rent Google TPUs for AI training

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta Platforms has signed an agreement to rent Google’s tensor processing units through Google Cloud to develop new AI models. The deal marks a major expansion of Google’s TPU commercialization strategy, which previously restricted the chips to its own in…

#ai #cloud #ml #meta #chips #google #genai #business #datacenter

Meta signs multi-billion dollar deal to rent Google's TPUs in a direct challenge to Nvidia's AI chip dominance

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google is aggressively moving into Nvidia’s territory by leasing and selling training chips. https://sherwood.news/tech/meta-reportedly-strikes-multi-billion-dollar-ai-chip-deal-with-google-as-it/

7 days / bsky / @sherwood.news / sherwood.news

Meta reportedly strikes multi-billion dollar AI chip deal with Google as it struggles to design its own

7 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to rent Google TPUs for AI training

7 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Meta scraps advanced AI training chip after design roadblocks

7 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Meta Secures Google TPU Partnership Alongside Nvidia and AMD Chip Contracts

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Back to Top / Friday, February 27, 2026, 7:21 am / permalink 19869 / 6 stories in 7 days


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SoftBank seeks massive $40B loan to back OpenAI investment, courting big risk

SoftBank is reportedly seeking up to a $40 billion loan to finance its planned stake in OpenAI, an audacious use of leverage to double down on the AI boom. The move would be one of the largest single‑company financing gambits in recent memory, raising questions about balance‑sheet strain versus potential upside. More...


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