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Global memory shortages are causing significant delays in MacBook Air delivery times, and even after June's price increase, balancing supply and demand remains difficult. Expanding AI-related demand is squeezing the supply of DRAM for PCs, and while Apple is exploring stockpiling and diversifying its sourcing, the shortage has yet to be resolved.
US startup FAST Metals has developed technology to extract rare earths and other critical minerals from aluminum refining's toxic waste at low cost. The effort to turn the 4 billion tons of waste sitting around the world into a resource aims to both cut environmental harm and build a supply chain independent of China.
An RFC for Linux improved the 1% Low on a Steam Deck OLED by 31.8%. Average fps remains unchanged, targeting the frequency drop after short waits, while power consumption and adoption remain unverified.
Montage has moved its CXL 3.2-compliant memory expansion chip into trial production, and Samsung and SK hynix have also completed initial validation. Attention now shifts to the mass-production timeline and real-world workload performance.
An analysis of 4,283 U.S. facilities found 97.5% concentrated within metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas. The strongest association was with local power generation capacity, and former fossil-fuel regions showed a higher share of facilities under development.
A research team including Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a new photonic integrated circuit technology that uses the entire area of a material as a waveguide. By exploiting symmetry breaking to control the direction of light propagation region by region, the team eliminated the thick insulating layers that were previously indispensable, dramatically improving spatial efficiency.
AMD has documented per-core performance floors for select Zen 6 products. The evidence behind the claimed 31.8% 1% Low improvement comes from a limited experiment on Steam Deck, and its effect on next-generation Ryzen has not yet been verified.
An international research team has demonstrated for the first time a "photonic time crystal" that manipulates light not through spatial structure, but through periodicity in time. By using powerful terahertz pulses generated with a particle accelerator to modulate a material's optical properties on a picosecond timescale, the team succeeded in dramatically suppressing photon dissipation.
A model estimates that if China's retired EVs were fully collected and processing efficiency improved, recycled materials could cover 89% of 2050 lithium demand for EVs. Nickel would reach only 35%, revealing the limits that differ by material.
Reports indicate CXMT's LPDDR6, designed at 12.8Gbps, is nearing completion of development verification. Cross-referencing official disclosures with competitors reveals the customer evaluation and certification steps still required before mass production.
