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AMD CEO Lisa Su told reporters in Taipei that the company increased chip supply this year and plans a further major ramp-up in 2027 to meet AI demand. Su is in Taiwan meeting partners including Foxconn, with TSMC talks planned, and will travel to South Korea this week to meet memory suppliers. AMD shares rose nearly 4% on the news, trading at $656.84, up about 194% year to date.
GameStop has increased the price of pre-owned and refurbished PlayStation 5 Pro consoles to $1,399.99, according to an internal memo confirmed by a subreddit moderator. The new price takes effect October 6 and is only $100-150 below retail prices for new units, which remain scarce ahead of GTA 6's launch next month.
Nokia's CEO, Justin Hotard, stated that data centers could be built twice as quickly if supply chain issues were resolved, emphasizing ongoing demand for AI infrastructure. He noted shortages of memory chips and energy as current constraints and expressed confidence that the sector remains in early growth stages. Nokia has shifted focus to AI-related connectivity technology, boosting investor confidence with a 130% stock increase over the past year.
Researchers utilizing AI agents identified two materials that could serve as next-generation magnetic semiconductors operating at room temperature. One is a newly designed compound, while the other is a known material from 1999, both predicted to manipulate electron spins without exhibiting net magnetism. The team shared their calculations, code, and known limitations of these findings.
Valve's September 2026 Steam Hardware Survey shows 32GB of system RAM is now used by 42.22% of surveyed gaming PCs, up 4.77% from August, while 16GB configurations fell to 37.82%. Unusual configurations like 24GB and 48GB also grew slightly, even as a global memory chip shortage continues.
Nvidia increased the price of its Shield TV Pro streaming box from $199.99 to $299.99 starting October 2nd, citing rising component costs linked to the ongoing memory shortage. The company has also discontinued the cheaper entry-level Shield TV, leaving the Pro as its only streaming device.
YouTube channel NorthWestRepair published a video showing technician Tony attempting to repair two physically damaged DDR5 ECC RDIMM server memory modules, a 128GB and a 256GB stick, together said to be worth $16,000. Using a reflow technique with flux and hot air, he got the first module working again, while the second showed no signs of life and appeared to have a faulty PMIC chip.
GrapheneOS says it has traced a regression in Google's Android 17 QPR1 update that causes lag, stuttering, freezes, and app crashes on Pixel devices under memory pressure. The project says the bug originates in Pixel firmware and drivers supplied by Google, meaning it can affect stock Pixel software too, and it has already patched the issue in its own OS release while Google has not yet issued a fix.
Nvidia has increased the price of its Shield TV Pro streaming box by $100 to $299.99, effective October 2. The device, which first launched in 2019, still uses the same aging Tegra X1+ processor, but Nvidia says rising component and memory costs industry-wide are responsible for the price jump.
Vx is a new programming language that requires explicit transfer() calls whenever data moves between memory locations such as NPU high-bandwidth memory and host DRAM, treating that location as part of a variable's type rather than leaving it to a runtime. On Apple's unified-memory architecture such a transfer compiles down to almost nothing in practice, but the call must still appear in source code.
A technical essay critiques the common architecture behind AI agent 'memory' plugins, describing them as systems that chop conversation transcripts into snippets, store them in vector databases, and retrieve the most similar ones per prompt. The author argues this retrieval-by-similarity approach fails to give agents real understanding of a project, and proposes that agents instead need structured documentation rather than memory snippets.
Nvidia has raised the price of its Shield TV Pro streaming device from $199.99 to $299.99, a $100 increase despite no hardware changes. An Nvidia spokesperson told Ars Technica the hike, effective October 2, stems from rising component costs, particularly memory, across the industry. The company has also discontinued the standard Shield TV, leaving the Pro as its only Shield-branded device.