Ars Technica
And what that could mean for physical Switch game costs. For years, the AI industry's insatiable demand for memory and storage has had plenty of knock-on effects on the price and availability of PC components like RAM, SSDs, and GPUs.
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neufangled.com
Secure the cleats to wall studs near the ceiling with wood screws, or to columns with ratchet straps. This hands off process takes about five minutes and adapts Stringman to your room.
The Decoder
Huawei is telling customers to source the high-performance memory for its AI chips on their own, pushing them onto the black market. Smugglers are exploiting a loophole in U.S. export rules by bundling HBM with low-end processors, shipping them through Hong Kong, and separating the chips on site.
semiconductor-today.com
WICOP 3 targeted at AR glasses and AI datacoms applications Seoul Viosys begins mass production of rare-earth-free white light emitter, with chips as small as 10µm. For three decades, white LEDs have depended on rare-earth materials such as yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG) layered onto a blue LED chip (Figure 1).
The Decoder
Toyota wants to turn itself into a global robotics company, and it's betting on humanoid robots and factory automation to get there. The world's largest automaker plans to deploy 400,000 robots as part of a $6.4 billion annual investment plan, the Financial Times reports.