• August 31, 2026
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AMD Wins Finland’s National AI Supercomputer

The Finnish agency running Europe’s most storied supercomputer has made its choice. LUMI-AI, the country’s national AI supercomputer, will run on AMD hardware, with deployment planned for the second half…

  • August 31, 2026
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Strategy Resumes Buying, Adds 4,603 Bitcoin for $369.7 Million

The message went out on social media the day before: “We’re Back.” By Monday, Michael Saylor’s company had made it literal. Strategy, the software company turned bitcoin treasury, disclosed in…

  • August 31, 2026
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IBM Quantum Computer Finishes a 15-Minute Task Classical Machines Can’t

The calculation took 15 minutes. On a classical computer, the same problem would take effectively forever, a task the researchers describe as practically impossible. The result, published on August 30…

  • August 31, 2026
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Xbox Lets Players Trade Discs for Digital Licenses

The Disc-to-Digital program turns a decade of industry debate into a button press: a player inserts a game disc, and the console converts it into a digital license, permanently attached…

  • August 31, 2026
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TSMC Bets Silicon Photonics Will Carry AI Chips Past Electrical Limits

The chips are getting faster. The wires between them are not. That is the problem TSMC expects silicon photonics to solve, and the company says the technology will start accelerating…

  • August 31, 2026
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SpaceX Pays $220 Million to Take 444 Acres Out of Brownsville’s Hands

Around 11 p.m. on Saturday, the Brownsville City Council voted unanimously to cut 444 acres out of the city. The land, adjacent to SpaceX’s Starbase launch site on the Texas…

  • August 31, 2026
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2027 Memory Capacity Is Already Sold Out, Suppliers Say

Two years is a lifetime in the memory business, long enough for a boom to become a bust and back again. Yet Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron have already sold…

  • August 31, 2026
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HBM Spot Prices Hit Five Times Contract Levels as AI Demand Surges

In the memory market’s spot trade, where chips are bought for immediate delivery at whatever the market will bear, the price of HBM has gone vertical. Korea Economic Daily reported…

  • August 31, 2026
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SK Hynix Weighs Japan Fab, Hands HBM Base Dies to Intel Foundry

For decades, the message from Korea’s memory makers was consistent: fabs stay home. On Monday, SK Group chairman Choi Tae-won broke that pattern, publicly confirming that SK Hynix is considering…

  • August 31, 2026
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Nvidia Puts $3.5 Billion Into MediaTek Convertibles

The first batch of RTX Spark laptops sold out within days. ASUS and MSI units were snapped up in preorders, and both makers scrambled to place follow-on orders with their…