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AI hardware
4 dispatches on AI hardware.
Samsung Is Betting You'll Pay AI Prices for a Foldable. July 22 Is the Reckoning.
Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked on July 22 drops foldables into the worst memory-price environment in years. Here's what the pricing will actually reveal about the AI phone era.
Apple Just Told You Who Actually Won the Memory Market
Apple's June 25 price hikes on Macs and iPads — up to $300 per device — are a direct admission that AI's dominance over the memory supply chain is now a consumer problem, not just a data-center one.
NVIDIA's RTX Spark Pitch Can't Decide Whether You're a Developer or a Gamer
NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip pairs a gaming-grade Blackwell GPU with 128GB of unified memory and sells it as an 'agentic AI' platform. The hardware is real. The marketing identity crisis is too.
Gamers Are Funding the AI Buildout Now: The RTX 5090 Is the Receipt
The RTX 5090 sells for $2,700 to over $5,000 because the memory it needs is being bought up for AI servers. This isn't a shortage story — it's a story about who pays for the AI boom, and the answer is increasingly: gamers.