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Counterpoint Research reports smartphone shipments dropped 20% year-over-year in Q3, the weakest third quarter since 2012, as DRAM and NAND price surges pushed retail phone prices up 20% this year. Despite falling shipment volumes, Samsung and Apple both grew market share, with Samsung reaching 23% and Apple hitting 22%—its highest-ever Q3 share—even before releasing the base iPhone 18.
Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) said over the weekend it had advanced new chip architecture that increases memory density, prompting sharp declines in global memory stocks. Micron fell 3.7% in premarket trading, SK Hynix closed 10% lower in Seoul, and Samsung Electronics dropped 7.4%, with SanDisk, Seagate and Western Digital also declining. CXMT, which went public on Shanghai's STAR Market in July with a 466% debut surge, reportedly plans to launch a server-memory product based on the new architecture by the end of 2026.
AYN has signaled that an Odin 3 Portal variant is in development, following its recent Odin 3 handheld gaming device. The company has not yet detailed specifications, pricing, or release timing for the Portal model.
Market trackers reported that global PC shipments in the third quarter of 2026 were unusually low by historical standards. The specific figures and vendor breakdowns from the report were not detailed in the available material.
Global sales data show gasoline-only vehicles have fallen under 50% of new car sales worldwide for the first time, according to reporting on the milestone. The shift reflects growing shares of electric and hybrid vehicles in the global new-car market.
Sony has informed distribution partners that supply constraints and high demand for the PS5 Pro will continue limiting retailer stock through at least 2027, according to German outlet Playfront. The console, originally priced at $699.99, now carries an MSRP roughly $200 higher, while resellers have listed units for as much as $1,539 at retailers like Best Buy.
ResiClub published three maps tracking home price shifts across U.S. housing markets, sizing each county by its active for-sale inventory rather than land area or population. This method aims to prevent large, sparsely populated counties from skewing the visual representation of price trends. The maps are part of ResiClub's ongoing housing market newsletter coverage from Lance Lambert.
In a Fox News interview, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said artificial intelligence could boost productivity enough that people choose to work fewer days, potentially a three-day workweek. He said this shift could result in a labor shortage as workers opt for more leisure time instead of maintaining current work hours.
A 2026 summer research intern at Jane Street, Kavish, developed a diffusion model aimed at synthesizing order book events—such as order placements, cancellations and executions—rather than just predicting prices. The project explored whether market data, which mixes discrete actions with near-continuous and often spiky distributions (like order timing and price ticks), can be modeled using diffusion techniques borrowed from image, video, and audio generation.
In an Entrepreneur contributor column, a founder with two decades in healthcare argues that conventional startup advice to target easy, fast-selling markets is flawed. The author contends that markets easy to enter are also easy for competitors to enter, leading to rapid commoditization, while complex markets protect companies willing to understand their structure.
CarGurus data shows some used 2026 Toyota RAV4s listing for $3,000 to $6,000 more than new dealership prices, as Toyota's shift to an all-hybrid lineup has left supply unable to meet demand. Hybrid sales broadly are surging, with Toyota reporting a 29 percent jump and Kia's more than doubling in the third quarter of 2026, while Cox Automotive data shows nearly one in six new US cars sold is now a hybrid.
Firmus, the Nvidia-backed Australian AI data center operator, has withdrawn its planned initial public offering, which would have raised about $5 billion and ranked as Australia's second-largest share sale ever. The company said market volatility and unfavorable offer terms led its board to scrap the listing, and it will instead seek funding through private markets while weighing other public or private options.