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The memory crisis is killing off sub-$100 smartphones as US sales plunge 64% (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Rob Thubron | tags: smartphones, memory prices, hmd

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Save over $600 on a massive 18-inch gaming laptop as it falls to a new all-time low price at Amazon — Acer's Predator Helios Neo 18 AI packs an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of memory (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: acer predator helios neo 18, nvidia rtx 5070 ti, intel core ultra 9 275hx

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Intel CEO hints at return to the memory business — says market is ripe for innovation, hints at stacking memory and CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Anton Shilov | tags: intel, sk hynix, 3d nand

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Internal Google Document Reveals That Its HR AI Has Been Throwing Résumés From Qualified Applicants Straight Into the Trash (futurism.com)

2026-08-12 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: google deepmind, ai hiring software, agi safety

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AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D — $80 DDR4 CPU remains a top seller during memory crunch (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, ryzen 5 5500, amazon cpu

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China now even less likely to solve Apple’s memory crunch (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-11 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple, cxmt, ymct

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As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Vass Bednar | tags: google, internet, sunset

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Apple Reportedly Testing Controversial Chinese Chips as Memory Supply Crunch Intensifies (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: apple, chinese chips, trump admin

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Before you throw out your old USB drives, do this first (engadget.com)

2026-08-10 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: usb drives, data recovery, memory prices

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Nvidia reportedly testing lower memory configs of Rubin Ultra as memory shortage bites back — designs tested include as little as 192 GB and step back to HBM4 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jake Roach | tags: nvidia, rubin ultra, hbm4

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Token-maxxing is dead. Agentic memory is what comes next. (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: mongodb, token-maxxing, context window

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Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Anton Shilov | tags: hyperscalers, ai hardware, memory

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The iPhone 18 Pro will cost Apple 38% more in parts – but there’s some good news (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-10 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: iphone 18 pro, apple, trendforce

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Windows 11's built-in weather app hogs more than 1.2 gigabytes of RAM just to tell the forecast — memory-sucking web wrapper filled with ads masquerades as an actual application (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: windows 11, msn weather, foreca

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What garbage collection actually costs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Shivanshu Agrawal | tags: java, garbage collector, memory management

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What Garbage Collection Costs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Shivanshu Agrawal | tags: garbage collection, java, memory management

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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: built, memory, microsoft

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Micron reportedly offers pennies on the dollar for Crucial RAM return, only offers to reimburse original MSRP despite it being only 37% of market value — chipmaker later reverses course with a better solution (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: crucial, memory, memory kit

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Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: flash, increases, industry

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Apple Tests Chinese Memory Chips as Supply Squeeze Bites (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: china, china cxmt, cxmt

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RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: capacity, digitimes, growing

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Save $160 off AMD's ultimate gaming CPU combo, includes motherboard and chip cooler — $458 combo features Ryzen 7 9800X3D, B850 motherboard, and a 240mm liquid AIO (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: bundle, deals, gaming

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Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: add memory, add numbers, assembly

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China's memory-making champion smashes DDR5-8800 barrier on AMD platform — CXMT chips close the gap with SK hynix (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: chipmaker, colorful, cxmt

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SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: capacity, hynix, memory

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Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: agent, agent memory, agents

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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 8, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: hardware, openai, premium

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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 7, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: hardware, openai, premium