Hardware
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5 stories
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Apple's first touchscreen Mac is a MacBook Pro with a tandem OLED display
Apple added touch and a tandem OLED panel to the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro, a day after launching a cheaper M6 model with a conventional screen. Here is how the two lines differ.
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Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops are on sale, and early tests split on the CPU
Windows laptops built on Nvidia's N1X chip shipped from six brands starting at $2,599. Early testing praises the GPU and large memory pool but disagrees about the Arm CPU.
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A YMTC employee says the memory shortage will last three more years, and TrendForce sees Q4 DRAM prices rising
An unnamed employee told The Wire China the memory crunch runs to about 2029, while TrendForce says Q4 DRAM contract talks point to higher prices. Neither is an official forecast.
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A leaker says Nvidia's RTX 60 and most of AMD's RDNA 5 will skip 2027
A post on the AnandTech forum claims both next-generation GPU families arrive in 2028, with one AMD card in 2027. It is an unsourced leak, and Nvidia and AMD have not commented.
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Apple's Mac mini gets the M6 and the Mac Studio gets a four-die M5 Ultra
Apple announced the M6 Mac mini and an M5 Ultra Mac Studio on August 25, with preorders open and shipping on September 22. The chips are Apple's own claims for now.
