Infrastructure
HP, Asus, and Acer Are Quietly Using Chinese CXMT Memory in Some Laptops
Nikkei reports HP, Asus, and Acer are quietly using small volumes of China's CXMT DRAM in budget notebooks. What it means for business buyers.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Samsung's New Memory Roadmap: Not Buyable Yet
Samsung unveiled three next-gen 3D memory concepts at FMS 2026: zHBM, zNAND-O, and a 400-plus-layer V10 BV-NAND. Here is what ships, what is a vision model, and what it means for AI infrastructure buyers in the EU and UK.
Infrastructure
SpaceX Bets 10 Gigawatts on Nvidia's Rubin Chips
SpaceX says it will run about 10 gigawatts of AI compute by 2027, exclusively on Nvidia's Rubin chips - and the customer list is not who the headlines say it is.
Infrastructure
Anthropic Confirms In-House Chip Team for Claude
Anthropic has confirmed a dedicated custom silicon team, posting chip design roles at $320,000 to $485,000. It follows reported Samsung and SK Hynix talks, but the company says AWS, Google, Nvidia and AMD are not going anywhere.
Infrastructure
38 Billion Dollars Buys Years of Pricier Memory Chips
SK Hynix's board approved $38.1 billion, 54 trillion won, for two new fabs in Yongin and Cheongju on 7 August 2026; the earliest new production does not arrive before 2028.
Infrastructure
$16.8B Terafab Deal Tops Entire EU Chips Act
Tesla and SpaceX's $16.8 billion Terafab chip plant in Texas, with a path to $119 billion, already outweighs the EU Chips Act's entire EUR 43 billion programme.
Infrastructure
DynamoDB Now Skips the Separate Vector Database
AWS added native vector search to DynamoDB on Aug 5, 2026. Here is what it means for teams planning to buy a separate vector database for an AI feature.
Infrastructure
512 Gigabytes Now Sits Between HBM and the SSD
The first High Bandwidth Flash specification landed through the Open Compute Project: up to 512GB, three grades from 0.4 to 3.0 TB/s, on a UCIe interface. It is the industry routing around the HBM shortage.
Infrastructure
The Backlog Was 1.5 Billion. So Was the Bond.
Hughes filed for Chapter 11 on 3 August with roughly 1.5 billion dollars of contracted enterprise backlog and roughly 1.5 billion dollars of debt it could not pay. The two numbers match. Only one of them was money.
Infrastructure
The Shortage Windfall Left As A Buyback
Kioxia posted a 75 percent operating margin and authorised up to 800 billion yen of share repurchases on the same day. The buyback is the number that tells you how long memory stays expensive.
Infrastructure
Compute Doubles Faster Than Its Price Falls
Epoch AI publishes at least three doubling times for AI compute. The one in every headline measures something else, and the curve that reaches your invoice is moving about three times slower.
Infrastructure
Seventy Percent Of Memory Is Already Committed
Samsung told its Q2 call it will put 60 to 70 percent of memory capacity into multi-year contracts. That reprices everyone still buying on an annual cycle.
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