Hardware & Chips
RAM Now 60% of Phone Cost, Sparks Fake-Chip Checks [2026]
Memory has quietly become the most expensive line item in a phone or laptop’s bill of materials, and for smaller device makers it is starting to dictate what…
Xbox Helix Leak Claims 40% TFLOPS Edge Over PS6 [2026]
A hardware leaker just reopened the console wars a full year before either next-generation machine has a confirmed release date. On September 23, 2026, Wccftech reported that Xbox’s…
Wafer Prices Could Surge 40% in 2027 on AI Demand [2026]
A report circulating on Ground News on September 23, 2026 carries a blunt headline: silicon wafer prices are set to surge 40% in 2027 as AI demand squeezes…
RTX 5090 Vanishes From US Stores, Hits $9,500 [2026]
The GeForce RTX 5090 has effectively disappeared from first-party US retail shelves, and the cards that remain are commanding prices that would have sounded absurd a year ago.…
Claude Opus 5.5 Skips Free Plan, Cuts Cost 40% [2026]
Anthropic’s newest flagship model, Claude Opus 5.5, went live on September 22, 2026, and the rollout has already split the company’s user base into two clear tiers. Pro,…
CXMT Chases NAND as YMTC Preps DRAM, 3 Sources Say [2026]
China’s two biggest homegrown memory chip makers are about to start competing on each other’s turf. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the country’s leading DRAM producer, is preparing a…
RTX 5090 Gets 96GB Mod in China for $3,888 [2026]
A Chinese hardware vendor is selling a GeForce RTX 5090 with three times the memory Nvidia ever shipped on the card, and it costs less than half of…
GPT-6 Sol, Luna Launch at 50% Off, Undercut Claude [2026]
OpenAI cut prices on its newest AI models by half on September 22, 2026, rolling out GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna as direct replacements for the GPT-5.6 lineup.…
AMD EPYC Venice Beats Xeon 2.37x, Edges Nvidia CPU [2026]
AMD says its newest server chip beat Intel’s flagship Xeon by more than double, and edged out a CPU built by a company that has never sold one…
Huawei Curbs AI Exports, Atlas Hits 120 Exaflops [2026]
Huawei just told the world it can’t keep up with its own backyard. On September 17, 2026, at Huawei Connect in Shanghai, rotating chairman Eric Xu said the…
