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Apple is raising prices across key product lines, including MacBook Pro and Mac Mini, due to surging memory chip costs driven by AI infrastructure demand. CEO Tim Cook confirmed the impact on margins during Q1 2026 earni…
Apple raised the Mac Mini base price by $200 to $799 starting May 1, 2026, as memory chip costs surged 50-70% due to AI infrastructure demand from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. CEO Tim Cook warned of the price…
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced unavoidable price increases due to rising memory chip costs driven by AI industry demand and inflation. The hikes will affect products like iPhones, Macs, and iPads, with potential increases …
Apple plans to raise prices across its product lineup due to rising memory chip costs driven by AI infrastructure demand, CEO Tim Cook announced. MacBook prices have already increased by up to $400, and new iPhone and Ma…
Vertiv Holdings completed the acquisition of Italian cooling specialist ThermoKey on June 12, 2026, adding dry coolers and microchannel heat-exchange technology to its thermal management portfolio for AI data centers. Se…
Madison Air Solutions raised $2.23 billion in a U.S. initial public offering, valuing the company at about $13.2 billion, as demand for AI data center cooling surges. The firm expects shipments of data center cooling uni…
Delta Electronics (Thailand) unveiled a prefabricated AI modular data center solution at COMPUTEX 2026 on June 5, 2026, integrating liquid cooling with an 800VDC power architecture to cut deployment time by up to 60%. Th…
NVent Electric plc is building an AI data center growth case around liquid cooling and high-density rack infrastructure, with collaborations with NVIDIA and Siemens. The company reported a 53% year-over-year sales increa…
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Reality Elite XR platform at Augmented World Expo, offering up to 48 TOPS of on-device AI performance and significant GPU, CPU, and NPU improvements over its predecessor. The chipset wil…
Odyssey, an AI lab founded by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, with Amazon participating and committing to AWS as its preferred cl…
Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company, has renamed itself Smartbird and appointed Nadia Carlsten as CEO to pivot into AI infrastructure, selling its shoe business for $39 million. Shares surged over 50% on the annou…
JPMorgan raised its price target on Broadcom stock to $580, implying over 46% upside, citing the company's dominance in AI chips and accelerating AI revenue growth past 200% year-over-year. The bank reaffirmed an Overwei…
Amazon AI chief Peter DeSantis admitted the company's AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but expressed hope of catching up within a year. Amazon is investing $33 billion in Anthropic while building its own rival …
Amazon Senior Vice President Peter DeSantis acknowledged the company's AI models have not been at the frontier of the largest workloads but expressed hope that Amazon will be in the conversation about leading models with…
Amazon is restructuring its AI division under new leader Peter DeSantis and investing up to $25 billion in Anthropic to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic in frontier AI models. The company is also in talks with OpenAI f…
Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, and G…
Lenovo is offering its Yoga Slim 7x OLED Copilot+ PC with Snapdragon X2 Elite processor for $1,310.99, a $389 discount from its usual $1,700 price, marking an all-time low. The deal is part of Lenovo's Black Friday in Ju…
Tensordyne, a Sunnyvale startup, announced its Napier (TDN) AI inference processor on June 15, claiming its TDN72 rack system delivers 13 times higher throughput and 17 times more tokens per watt than Nvidia's GB300 NVL7…
Amazon's custom Trainium and Inferentia chips are gaining traction as organizations seek cost-effective alternatives to Nvidia GPUs for AI workloads. AWS reports cost reductions of 80-90% for inference tasks on Inferenti…
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip at the Augmented World Expo, promising 60% better graphics and 160% more AI processing power for augmented and mixed reality glasses. The chip aims to make smart glasse…