Major hardware manufacturers are planning significant price increases for servers and PCs due to soaring memory component costs. According to channel sources, server prices could jump 15% while PCs see a 5% hike as demand from AI datacenters strains supply.
In a stunning move, Apple’s vice president of human interface design, Alan Dye, is leaving for Meta. He’ll be joined by another top Apple design leader, Billy Sorrentino, to work on AI, wearables, and spatial computing at Reality Labs.
The open-source firmware ecosystem is seeing significant movement on two fronts. 9elements is now maintaining support for Intel’s older Xeon Scalable processors in Coreboot, and 3mdeb has ported its Dasharo firmware to a modern ASRock Rack motherboard.
Apple is shaking up its AI leadership after failing to deliver promised Siri upgrades. Longtime chief John Giannandrea is stepping down immediately, replaced by former Google and Microsoft AI exec Amar Subramanya, who will report directly to software boss Craig Federighi.
Avalue has unveiled the EMS-ARH, a fanless edge computing system powered by Intel’s Core Ultra processor. It delivers up to 99 TOPS of AI performance for discriminative tasks like classification and anomaly detection. The rugged box is designed for flexibility and harsh environments.
The openSUSE project is taking two significant steps forward for users. Its rolling release, Tumbleweed, is starting to get support for Intel’s latest AI-focused NPU hardware. Meanwhile, the upcoming stable Leap 16 release has been promised a full 24 months of maintenance and community support.
Support for AMD GPU managed memory has been officially merged into the upcoming GCC 16 compiler. This feature, part of the OpenMP offloading support, allows for a unified memory space between host and device. It aims to make programming for AMD’s ROCm platform more straightforward.
Microsoft has confirmed a bug in its optional August 2025 preview update, KB5064081, that hides the password icon on the Windows 11 sign-in screen. The company hasn’t issued a fix yet, but there’s a simple, if annoying, workaround for affected users.
The iPhone has turned everyone into a potential filmmaker, something that used to cost millions. This technological revolution shows why the Federal Reserve’s Phillips Curve economic theory is fundamentally flawed.
PC gamers are organizing a RAM boycott to protest skyrocketing memory prices, but industry experts say it’s doomed to fail. The AI sector now consumes most DRAM production, leaving consumer demand as an afterthought. This shortage could last until 2027, forcing gamers to make tough choices.
