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TechRadar reports Asus's ProArt GR1X has entered a crowded RTX Spark field without a listed price, while AMD's Gorgon Halo boxes already offer 192GB.
Tinygrad has introduced a redesigned Tinybox workstation for deep learning, with a G4 configuration that supports four AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPUs and starts at $11,000, according to TechRadar.
Nvidia is to make billion-dollar investments in European technology, with CEO Jensen Huang saying the chipmaker has committed up to $10 billion to the region's tech sector over the past year.
Engadget explains how NVIDIA DLSS renders games at lower internal resolutions and uses machine learning to upscale them, improving frame rates while trading some image fidelity. The article details DLSS modes, support history and DLSS 4 changes.
Goldman Sachs beat estimates on strong trading and banking, leading CNBC to upgrade the stock to buy-equivalent.
Ubitium raises $14M in additional seed funding led by Ibex Investors, bringing total seed investment to $18M to commercialize a universal RISC-V processor for physical AI machines.
AI stocks face pressure from OpenAI revenue and China chip concerns, while QQQ options still price bigger moves than delivered, CNBC reports.
Satlyt, founded by former Google and SpaceX product manager Rama Afullo, has raised $8 million to build software that runs AI models on satellites. Its software is set to launch on a SpaceX rocket alongside Google's Project Suncatcher prototype.
Microsoft introduced the Azure Maia 300 at the OCP Global Summit 2026, claiming 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems as it seeks to cut its reliance on Nvidia and AMD.
Cisco unveiled AI networking products and open standards at OCP, including Nvidia pluggable optics and G300 systems.
theCUBE Pod analysts weighed IBM's commodity-model bet and Marvell's growth plans as chip and cloud shares fell on lower-than-reported OpenAI revenue.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says AI hardware, mainly memory, will stay scarce for two to three years as contract RAM prices climb.
ChangXin Memory Technologies said its new architecture can pack more data into a smaller space, triggering a selloff in global memory-chip stocks and raising questions about competition with Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung.
Chip startup xMEMS Labs has started mass production of the XMC-2400 and XMC-4800, two solid-state coolers that use a vibrating silicon membrane to move air in AI glasses, smartphones and data center storage.
Kearney ranks the UK among Europe’s slowest-growing data center markets, forecasting 17.6% annual demand growth to 2030, versus 36% in Ireland. High land and energy costs and slow grid connections are cited as obstacles.
Microsoft has opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark, an AI-focused Windows 11 laptop starting at $2,599.99. TechRadar also named top 2026 Windows 11 laptops and a $1,449 Gigabyte RTX 5070 Ti deal.
TechRadar published an analysis warning that enterprise IT remains optimized for AI training while inference becomes the dominant workload. It cites IDC, Deloitte, McKinsey and Gartner on inference demand, agent growth, network strain and the rising role of CPUs.
The IMF warned Tuesday that inflation, debt and AI-related borrowing could cause sovereign bond yields to spike in a disorderly way, while global resilience is nearing its limits. DBS's CEO said Singapore's predictability is an advantage as Asian tech shares fell on AI financing worries.
Seoul's KOSPI fell 5.46% to 6,035.35 on Oct. 13, extending losses to a fifth session as technology and chip stocks slumped on renewed AI and inflation worries. The won weakened to 1,345.1 per dollar after foreigners sold a net 4.51 trillion won of local shares.
Lee stresses U.S. alliance; North Korea reports missile test; Seoul stocks tumble; IMF lifts Korea 2026 growth forecast.
Asian technology and semiconductor shares fell Tuesday, tracking a U.S. chip sell-off, as SK Hynix, Samsung and SoftBank slumped amid concerns over AI financing and competition.
The IMF raised its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1%, citing AI investment that offset Middle East war shocks, while warning of disorderly bond-yield spikes and a possible AI share-price correction. It lifted South Korea's growth outlook to 3.3% on semiconductor exports.
Samsung Electronics unveiled next-generation memory and storage strategies at OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Francisco, targeting AI infrastructure performance. The company outlined high-performance memory, CXL-based expansion and next-generation SSD storage, and plans a joint CXL demonstration with AMD.
Microsoft said it will expand Azure Maia AI systems to several gigawatts from 2027 and make them its main inference platform, while OnePlus, Google, CMF, LineageOS and Meta announced new devices, software and AI models.