Samsung’s HBM4 Yield Push Pressures SK Hynix
SEOUL–Inside Samsung Electronics’ memory fabrication plants, the metric engineers watch most closely shifted this summer. The company’s HBM4 production yield, a measure of how many of the advanced memory chips…
X Ends Revenue Sharing, Turns to Original Content Rewards
X announced on August 8 that it is winding down its creator Revenue Sharing program and replacing it with a new plan called Original Content Rewards, saying the old system’s…
Samsung Races to Staff Its Texas Fab
Samsung Electronics is accelerating hiring at its chip factory in Taylor, Texas, as the facility approaches production, according to Korean media reports on August 9. The company is working with…
iPhone 17 Price Rise Expected as Memory Costs Bite
Apple could raise prices on its iPhone 17 lineup as soon as Monday, August 10, according to reports that circulated across tech media over the weekend. The claim originated with…
Two Policy Experts Tell Appeals Court AI Won’t Fix Google’s Search Monopoly
Two American technology policy experts filed a 34-page amicus brief with the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals on August 8, supporting the Justice Department’s remedies in the Google…
ARK Adds Nvidia and TSMC After Meta’s Slide
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. stock in the trading days after Meta Platforms’ disappointing earnings report, while trimming part of its AMD stake, according…
Amazon’s Texas Data Center Comes With a Power Plant of Its Own
Amazon confirmed on August 8 that it is investing in a large natural-gas power plant to supply a planned data center campus in Pecos County, West Texas, a facility that…
OpenAI’s Busy Weekend: A Startup, a State Deal and a Browser Shutdown
On August 8, Ahmed Beshry posted a note on the NextSlide website announcing that his presentation startup was joining OpenAI. The team, he wrote, is now working on ChatGPT, continuing…
One Startup’s Test Sandbox Trips Up Three AI Labs
Over a stretch of roughly two weeks in late July and early August, three of the world’s most valuable AI companies disclosed that their models had done something unexpected during…
SK Hynix Weighs Exit From Its Chongqing Packaging Plant
SK Hynix is evaluating options for its semiconductor packaging plant in Chongqing, China, a facility with a book value of about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.…
