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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Photoncycle raises €15M to store summer solar for Europe’s winter energy gap

3 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

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.

#hardware #semiconductors #chips #storage #supplychain #education #economy #manufacturing #technology #memory

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

AI Data Centers Starve Budget Smartphones of Memory Chips

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Gartner warns sub-$500 PCs will vanish by 2028

Extinction Watch: Sub-$500 Computers in Danger, According to Report

4 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Entry-Level PC Segment Might Disappear by 2028, Claims Gartner

4 days / techpowerup

Entry-level PC market to ‘disappear’ by 2028 — rising memory prices pile more strain on consumer PC market

4 days / reddit / /u/imaginary_num6er

Entry-level PC market to ‘disappear’ by 2028 — rising memory prices pile more strain on consumer PC market

4 days / tomshardware

Gartner says sub-$500 entry level PCs could disappear by 2028 as memory prices surge

4 days / techspot

Entry level PCs costing less than $500 ‘will disappear by 2028’, research firm predicts

4 days / reddit / /u/PaiDuck

Phison demands prepayments as NAND prices surge 500%

Phison is now demanding customers pre-pay with shorter timelines — NAND squeeze affecting everyone in the SSD supply chain

4 days / tomshardware

Phison Seeks Customer Prepayments as NAND Flash Prices Surge 500%

4 days / reddit / /u/sr_local

Phison Seeks Customer Prepayments as NAND Flash Prices Surge 500% Over Six Months

4 days / techpowerup

Phison Shifts NAND Supply to ‘Prepayment’ Model to Make Sure It Secures the Cash Before Allocating Any Supply to Customers

4 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

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…

#mobiletech #semiconductors #chips #storage #supplychain #economy #manufacturing #technology #smartphone #memory

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

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

8 days / reddit / /u/FragmentedChicken

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

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…

#bigdata #cloud #hardware #storage #business #datacenter #supplychain #manufacturing #technology

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 | Discussion

17 days / bsky / @hackernewsbot.bsky.social / hackernewsbot.bsky.social

Because of AI, Western Digital Hard Drives Are Sold Out

18 days / gizmodo / Justin Caffier

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

18 days / ycombinator

Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

18 days / reddit / /u/kwirky88

Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026

18 days / slashdot / msmash

Western Digital's HDD production for 2026 is already sold out

18 days / techspot

AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

19 days / reddit / /u/gdelacalle

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 …

#semiconductors #apple #chips #storage #iphone #supplychain #wireless #smartphone #qualcomm #satellite

Apple To Face Storage Pricing Pressure As It Is Rumored To Agree To Kioxia’s Terms Of Paying 2x For NAND Flash; Renegotiations To Happen Every Quarter

20 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Don't Bother Waiting for the iPhone 18. Just Buy the iPhone 17

20 days / cnet / Nicole Lee

iPhone 18 Pro To Feature Two Wireless Chip Upgrades This Year, Says Analyst, Along With A Smaller Dynamic Island & More

21 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and Fold to Feature A20 Pro, 12GB RAM, and Apple C2 Modem [Report]

21 days / iclarified

Five iPhone 18 Pro Features Revealed in New Report

21 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

iPhone 18 Pro could bring a big boost to satellite connectivity

21 days / digitaltrends

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…

#ai #cloud #hardware #semiconductors #chips #storage #datacenter #intel #softbank #memory

Intel Plans to Re-Enter the Memory Business as the Firm Pairs With SoftBank to Introduce a New Solution, Capitalizing on Ongoing Shortages

4 wks / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Intel and SoftBank Subsidiary Saimemory Partner on Next-Gen Z-Angle Memory

4 wks / techpowerup

Intel Teams Up With SoftBank Subsidiary on Next-Gen AI Memory

4 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Intel is co-developing new Z-Angle Memory to compete with HBM used in AI data centers — vertically-stacked memory touts 2 to 3x more capacity, greater bandwidth, and half the power consumption

4 wks / tomshardware

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…

#hardware #storage #business #supplychain #pricing #economy #manufacturing #technology

Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September

7 wks / slashdot / msmash

Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

7 wks / tomshardware

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…

#ai #cloud #hardware #networking #edge #storage #business #technology #gadgets #smarthome

Why is every The Verge atricel paywalled theverge.com/gadgets/852453/ugreen-ai-nas-idx6011-pro-photo-search

2 months / bsky / @danielmorrisey.com / danielmorrisey.com

Two new uGreen NASync storage systems have on-device AI

2 months / appleinsider

Ugreen is now selling an AI NAS with more RAM than my desktop

2 months / theverge / Sean Hollister

UGREEN Shows GPU-Accelerated, AI-Powered NAS at CES 2026

2 months / techpowerup

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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#innovation #storage #deeptech #engineering #physics #technology #durability #research

"Eternal" 5D Glass Storage is entering commercial pilots: 360TB per disc, zero-energy preservation and a 13.8 billion year lifespan.

2 months / reddit / /u/BuildwithVignesh

This 5D "memory crystal" glass storage could preserve data for 13.8 billion years

2 months / techspot

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

2 months / reddit / /u/Vailhem

SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser

2 months / ycombinator

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…

#mobiletech #mobile #apple #storage #ios #apps #security #privacy #updates

Signal Private Messenger Rolls Out Secure Backups for iPhone

3 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Signal extends backup feature to iOS users

3 months / engadget / Sarah Fielding

Signal Private Messenger Rolls Out Secure Backups for iPhone

3 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Signal finally lets you restore iPhone chats if you pay for storage

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

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…

#startups #vc #cloud #innovation #storage #energy #business #datacenter #europe #technology

Leil Secures €1.5M To Make Hyperscale Storage Infrastructure Accessible For All

4 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Leil lands €1.5M to make hyperscale storage infrastructure accessible for all

4 months / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Startup in spotlight: Leil lands €1.5M to disrupt hyperscale data storage with energy‑efficient tech

4 months / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

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...

#startups #vc #innovation #storage #energy #environment #technology

Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 million to test prototypes.

4 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Sizable Energy Secures $8M To Develop Offshore Energy Storage Solutions

4 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Sizable Energy raises $8M to launch ocean-based energy storage

4 months / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

One startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean

4 months / techcrunch / Tim De Chant

Sizable Energy raises $8M to launch ocean-based pumped hydro storage

4 months / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

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.

#software #hardware #techpolicy #storage #business #updates

Synology reverses course on non-certified HDDs in NAS systems

4 months / techspot

Synology has backed down from only allowing certified hard drives that it conveniently sells in its 2025 network attached storage device line -- but the new 7.3 DSM update is far from a complete reversal of policy.

4 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models

4 months / arstechnica / Lee Hutchinson

Synology Reverses Drive Validation Policy

4 months / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Synology walks back controversial compatibility policy for 2025 NAS units — third-party HDD and SSD support returns with DiskStation Manager 7.3 update

4 months / tomshardware

Synology caves & allows all hard drives in 2025 NAS range - for now

4 months / appleinsider

Synology Reverses Controversial NAS Hard Drive Restriction After Sales Plummet

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS Sales Plummet

4 months / guru3d

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…

#hardware #storage #gadget #compsci #technology #raspberrypi #memory

Raspberry Pi 500+ packs a mini PC into a mechanical keyboard

5 months / techspot

Raspberry Pi upgraded its keyboard computer with mechanical switches and SSD storage

5 months / theverge / Andrew Liszewski

Raspberry Pi 500+ puts the Pi, 16GB of RAM, and a real SSD in a mechanical keyboard

5 months / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

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…

#hardware #innovation #storage #pricing #performance #technology #gadgets

Raspberry Pi 500+ Adds a Mechanical Keyboard, More for $200

5 months / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

omg will haben

5 months / bsky / @hello.its.katerstrophal.world / hello.its.katerstrophal.world

New @raspberrypi.com 500+ out now! Also my first try at a tech video with binaural stereo audio – it came out SUPER quiet, so you gotta turn your headphones up

5 months / bsky / @alexglow.bsky.social / alexglow.bsky.social

Raspberry Pi 500+ all-in-one PC debuts for $200 with mechanical keyboard

5 months / betanews / Wayne Williams

The all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500 on sale now at $200

5 months / raspberrypi

The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD

5 months / theregister / Richard Speed

Raspberry Pi 500+ Review: RGB clicky keys and NVMe storage, but with a $200 price tag

5 months / tomshardware

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.

#hardware #apple #storage

LaCie Rugged SSD4 4TB review: Impressive 40 Gbps speed on Mac and PC

5 months / tomshardware

The SSD version of LaCie’s iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost

5 months / theverge / Andrew Liszewski

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…

#storage #camera #gadget

Insta360 Go Ultra Launches With Huge Sensor Upgrade For Sharper Video

6 months / bgr

The Tiniest Action Camera Is Now Slightly Larger, and So Much Better for It

6 months / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

New Insta360 Go Ultra offers 4K capture in a small form

6 months / appleinsider

Insta360 launches new action camera with removable storage

6 months / engadget / Andre Revilla

Insta360 redesigned its compact action cam with a bigger battery and swappable storage

6 months / theverge / Andrew Liszewski

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…

#hardware #storage

OWC's Express 1M2 80G is a blisteringly fast portable SSD

6 months / appleinsider

OWC's New 1M2 80G Portable SSD Brings 6,000MB/s Speeds to Thunderbolt 5 Macs

6 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

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…

#china #chips #storage

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Tiny, removable “mini SSD” could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds

6 months / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

This Chinese company just unveiled an SSD almost as small as a SIM card

6 months / pocket-lint / John Kanellakos

Mini SSDs pack NVMe performance into a microSD-sized form factor

6 months / techspot

China introduces up to 2TB 'Mini SSD' that's 3X faster than the microSD Express used in the Switch 2, but smaller — tiny '1517' SSD is just 15x17mm and boasts impressive performance claims

6 months / tomshardware

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…

#apple #storage #iphone #pricing

dbrand seemingly confirms final iPhone 17 design with Tank Case

6 months / appleinsider

Apple Might Use A Familiar Tactic To Disguise The iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike

6 months / bgr

iPhone 17 Pro May Launch with 256GB Base Storage

6 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Apple's iPhone 17 Pro $50 pricing increase strategy won't matter to half of buyers

6 months / appleinsider

iPhone 17 Pro Will Reportedly Get Higher Price Tag, But Also More Storage

6 months / cnet / Alex Valdes

Will the iPhone 17 Pro Really Break Apple's 8-Year Pricing Streak?