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hardware 20.05.2026

ByteDance will increase its capital expenditures in the next quarter, investing significantly more in purchasing Chinese AI accelerators

Chinese giants are boosting investments in computing infrastructure American technology companies plan to invest about $750 billion this year in expanding their data centers and c...

hardware 20.05.2026

Apple will continue to rely on TSMC, which will produce its 5G modems with a 2‑nanometer technology.

Brief on the news - Apple is likely to use Intel chips in some new Mac and iPad models. - TSMC will continue supplying 5G modems for Apple, but already with its own 2‑nm technolo...

hardware 20.05.2026

Arm is banking on launching 512‑core processors in the server segment to establish itself as a leading supplier.

Arm Announces Plans to Scale Its Central Processors Until recently Arm was known only for developing processor architectures, and analysis of its quarterly reports remained rare....

hardware 20.05.2026

Nintendo lowered its stock price after raising the price of the Switch 2 and a poor forecast, while Sony’s shares rose by 10 %.

Short summary At the beginning of last week Japanese console makers reported rising memory prices and shortages, which affected stocks differently: Nintendo fell 7 %, Sony rose 10...

hardware 20.05.2026

Tesla jokes with fans, unexpectedly postpones the launch ceremony for the latest Model S and Model X

Short about the event At the beginning of January it became known that production of Tesla’s flagship electric cars, the Model S and Model X, would be halted to free up the line f...

hardware 20.05.2026

SK Hynix is considering bringing in Intel instead of TSMC to manufacture HBM4 memory

SK Hynix is considering Intel as a packaging partner for HBM‑4 Samsung Electronics owns a fully vertically integrated chip manufacturing operation and can perform contract product...

hardware 19.05.2026

Chinese chipmakers can profit from the AI boom without having the most advanced manufacturing processes, says the head of SMIC.

Chinese chip manufacturers are confident that sanctions will not stop the industry's growth SMIC—the largest contract semiconductor manufacturer in China—has long been under U.S....

hardware 19.05.2026

Huawei unveiled the Smart Screen S7 series—televisions featuring Super Mini-LED backlighting and refresh rates up to 300 Hz

Huawei launches the Smart Screen S7 line – next‑generation televisions Huawei has announced the release of its Smart Screen S7 television series, available in five sizes: 55, 65,...

hardware 19.05.2026

Silicon Motion's chapter forecasts a continuing memory shortage through 2028

Problem of NAND and DRAM memory shortages: forecast until 2028 Silicon Motion's memory controller developer, led by Gou Chia‑chang, confidently assesses the current market situati...

hardware 19.05.2026

Physicists have been trying to measure the gravitational constant for ten years—and again failed to arrive at a single value of the “big G.”

New measurement of the gravitational constant from NIST *Physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have completed a decade-lon...

hardware 19.05.2026

The Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft flawlessly delivered 6.2 tonnes of useful materials and much more to the Chinese space station.

The Chinese orbital cargo ship Tianzhou‑10 successfully docked with the Tiangong space station * Docking time: 13:11 Beijing Time (08:11 MSK). * Location: the Tianhe core module...

hardware 19.05.2026

Players have uncovered new evidence confirming the existence of a hidden third DLC for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Third add‑on for *The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt* still remains in the shadows, but “smoke” is already gathering around it Developers at CD Projekt Red are not rushing to officially ann...