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Cook warned that Apple is facing supply-chain headwinds from RAMageddon that could impact its business.
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Cook warned that Apple is facing supply-chain headwinds from RAMageddon that could impact its business.
Apple said it will be supply-constrained on Mac mini, Studio, and Neo in the next quarter, too.
TrendingNVIDIA has announced a new family of open models called NVIDIA Ising, designed to address quantum processor calibration and quantum error correction. These are two of the main engineering challenges limiting the scalability of current quantum systems, where noise and instability in qubits reduce the reliability of computations. By Daniel Dominguez
Google TV just got more Gemini features, including the ability to transform photos and videos with tools Nano Banana and Veo.
Valve's new hardware is solid but might not justify its $99 price.
There have been plenty of rumors about OpenAI's hardware plans, which involve launching a pair of earbuds. A new note from industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that the AI company might be working on a phone in collaboration with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare.
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss how Apple has changed since Cook became CEO in 2011, and what challenges incoming CEO John Ternus will be facing.
John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, is a hardware guy, signaling Apple may be putting devices back at the center of its strategy.
Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.
Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.
Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants.
Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse.
Apple's top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.
This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo Materials.
Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion deal to build data centers for Anthropic.
These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augmented reality devices.
Specs has long been teasing the next version of its augmented reality glasses. A new partnership with Qualcomm promises some movement in that department.
The two tech giants are looking to co-develop custom chips, at a time when demand for CPUs is high due to a growing global shortage.
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Amazon told Kindle owners this week that it's ending support for all e-readers released in 2012 or earlier, making them virtually unable to load any new content.
Intel will join SpaceX and Tesla in an effort to build a new U.S. semiconductor factory in Texas, although the scope of its contributions are unclear.
The news follows a report from Nikkei Asia on Tuesday that raised concerns the company’s foldable iPhone could be delayed due to challenges during the phone’s engineering test phase.
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The Xiaomi 17 Ultra gives you a ton of options to play around with images, including preset filters and hardware add-ons.
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.
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