Memory stories
Buyers across Europe are trading up to higher-spec refurbished notebooks, lifting revenue 10% even as unit sales stayed broadly flat.
AI data centre orders helped push worldwide silicon wafer shipments 13.1% higher in the first quarter, SEMI said.
The update could help developers keep longer projects moving by letting Codex handle desktop tasks, browser work and persistent context.
The update promises better software engineering and longer task handling for users, while keeping Claude Opus 4.7 at the same price.
Confluent upgrades its AI toolkit to link agents over live data streams and add multivariate anomaly detection for faster issue spotting.
IDC says a memory shortage will drive a record 12.9% drop in 2026 smartphone shipments, hitting low-cost Android makers hardest.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with major coding and computer-use upgrades, keeping pricing flat at USD $3 and USD $15 per million tokens.
OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode and new Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to curb prompt injection attacks and tighten data safeguards.
Aerospike launches expression indexes to boost AI workload efficiency, cutting memory use and speeding queries in real-time NoSQL database applications.
Tray.ai launches Merlin Agent Builder 2.0, enhancing enterprise AI with smarter data, session memory, multi-LLM support, and seamless omnichannel deployment.
Vultr offers early access to AMD Instinct MI355X GPU, delivering powerful AI and HPC capabilities through its global cloud infrastructure from Q3 2024.
PEAK:AIO unveils a memory platform for AI, combining KVCache acceleration and GPU expansion to tackle memory limits in large language model tasks.
Global semiconductor revenue surged to USD $626 billion in 2024, driven by strong demand for GPUs and AI processors, according to Gartner.
Micron's Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB DDR5-6000 memory kit offers stylish performance enhancements for gamers, retailing at AUD $180 and NZD $250.
Shoppers now need to weigh battery life, portability and processing power more carefully as laptop options broaden in 2026.
Lexar will debut Argentina football-themed storage at Convergence India 2026, previewing new AFA portable SSDs for fans and creators.
Samsung keeps Southeast Asia lead as Apple jumps to third, but rising memory costs and a shift to pricier phones lift revenue above shipments.
AI data centre investment is starving Europe's PC market of key components, driving sharp RAM and SSD price rises into 2026.
Teenagers remember history better when they handwrite notes, with AI chatbots boosting curiosity but not matching pen-on-paper learning.
Sandisk launches WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD with PCIe Gen 5.0, offering up to 14,900MB/s read speeds and up to 8TB capacity for gamers and pros.
