Micron (MU) Stock: Soars 7% as $100B NY Megafab Breaks Ground and Sparks U.S. Chip Revival
Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Micron stock jumped nearly 8% after breaking ground on its $100B New York chip site The Syracuse-area megafab will host four plants, with first production targeted for 2030 Federal and state incentives helped anchor one of the largest U.S. chip proje…
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TSMC Says AI Demand Is 'Endless' After Record Q4 Earnings
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported record fourth-quarter earnings and said it expects AI chip demand to continue for years. During an earnings call, CEO C.C. Wei t…
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Samsung Reportedly Ahead of Schedule with M6 MacBook Pro/Max OLED Panel Production
techpowerup - Samsung Display's "Cinematic Experience" OLED experience could make its way to premium Apple laptop pastures. According to fresh inside track info—courtesy of a yeux1122 blog post—the South Korean behemoth's Asan site-based 8.6-generation OLED production …
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Under $35,000? What the New Canada-China EV Deal Means for Your Next Car Purchase
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Prime Minister Mark Carney has officially reset Canada’s trade relationship with China, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford is already warning that the deal could be a death blow to the province’s auto sector. The new strategic partnership, signed in Beijing th…
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China drafts rules to restrict Nvidia H200 AI chip acquisitions
Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - China is drafting rules to regulate purchases of Nvidia H200 AI chips by local firms, allowing limited sales from foreign makers like Nvidia rather than an outright ban, Nikkei Asia reported on January 15 citing two sources familiar with the matter. The C…
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M6 MacBook Pro OLED Panel Production Underway, With Samsung Initiating The Manufacturing Of These Displays Far Ahead Of Schedule
Omar Sohail / wccftech - Apple will finally introduce a significant redesign to its M6 MacBook Pro, with the company bidding farewell to mini-LED and bringing OLED technology in its place. With Samsung having years of experience under its belt in manufacturing these particular pa…
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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…
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Gigabyte CEO explains Nvidia's potential GPU supply strategy amid crushing memory shortages — gross revenue per gigabyte of GDDR7 memory could decide what products thrive
tomshardware - Gigabyte CEO Eddie Lin says the revenue contributed per gigabyte of GDDR7 on Nvidia graphics cards will be the key measure for which products thrive and which will be in short supply in 2026.
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US, Taiwan Sign $250B AI Chip Deal
eWEEK Staff / eweek - Taiwan has pledged at least $250 billion in direct U.S. investments for semiconductor, energy, and AI productionThe post US, Taiwan Sign $250B AI Chip Deal appeared first on eWEEK.
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Memory supply crisis forces ASUS to discontinue RTX 5060 Ti
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - ASUS has ceased production of NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics cards due to a memory supply shortage, placing the RTX 5070 Ti into end-of-life status, as reported by YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed. Hardware Unboxed detailed in its latest…
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