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Motherboard sales are collapsing because AI data centers made RAM too expensive to buy

8 May 2026 at 16:04

Sources tell DigiTimes that, late last year, four major motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan significantly downgraded their 2026 shipment projections. Although motherboards are not suffering the same AI-related shortages as RAM, DIY builders see little need to purchase motherboards if they can't afford the components to install on them.

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Samsung is pulling TVs and appliances from China after losing $138 million to local competition

7 May 2026 at 21:32

The South Korean technology giant said it will make every effort to minimize the impact for existing customers, and is reviewing its support infrastructure for business partners. The decision won't affect Samsung's other divisions in the region, meaning they will continue to sell products such as smartphones and tablets as...

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Hackers used Daemon Tools' own website to silently install backdoors on thousands of PCs for nearly a month

6 May 2026 at 23:17

Cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky found that the attack compromised multiple versions of Daemon Tools, from 12.5.0.2421 through 12.5.0.2434. What made the campaign particularly difficult to detect was that the malicious installers were distributed directly from the official website and signed with legitimate digital certificates belonging to AVB Disc Soft, the...

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Nvidia partners with Corning to build the fiber optic backbone for next-gen AI data centers

6 May 2026 at 20:10

Nvidia said the deal will expand Corning's US-based optical connectivity manufacturing capacity tenfold and boost its domestic fiber production capacity by more than 50%. Collectively, the new facilities will create north of 3,000 high-paying jobs, we are told. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, nor was a timeline...

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Next-gen MRDIMM standard nears completion targeting 12,800 MT/s DDR5 transfer rates for AI and data center workloads

4 May 2026 at 19:20

JEDEC's latest announcement provides an updated timeline for the future of MRDIMM, a relatively new memory standard introduced a few years ago to support bandwidth-intensive data workloads. Multiplexed Rank DIMM technology uses a multiplexing register and buffers to allow two memory ranks to operate simultaneously on a single DIMM, effectively...

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