Samsung and SK hynix sink most since 2008 as China’s CXMT rides the RAM crunch
The overall memory sector continues to boom, yet Korea's memory giants faced their worst week in 18 years.
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Memory shortage
Windows 11 keeps up to 2GB more data in RAM, a lift for 8GB PCs
Good news for the 8GB laptop you're holding on to
Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory shortage a crisis, won’t rule out Chinese chips
Time calls him a man of platitudes. Not on memory, though
Smartphone shipments fell a record 22% in Q3 as Samsung and Apple gained: IDC
A record drop, and IDC says it hasn't hit bottom.
Tecno and Infinix maker Transsion raises $390 million to put AI on budget phones
40% of the money raised goes to AI, including small models that run on mid- to low-end chips.
China’s Q3 phone shipments fell 15.4%, while Huawei grew 17.3%: IDC
Pricier memory pushed phone prices up and buyers held off, but Huawei found some growth and Apple fell behind
AI companies want 100B-parameter models running on phones by 2028: Qualcomm
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says unnamed AI firms want big models running nonstop on phones, but the firm's best phone chip tops out at 24GB RAM.
Smartphone shipments fell 20%, hit lowest Q3 since 2012: Counterpoint
Pricier memory pushed phone prices up 20%; Samsung and others slipped while Apple gained more ground.
Qualcomm raised Snapdragon laptop chip prices by 10%: report
Intel's high-end Panther Lake chips went up first and AMD's in tow, so laptops might get even pricier
RAMpocalypse: The memory crunch behind the PC slump, and whether to buy now or wait
It's shrinkflation, laptop edition.