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Memory maker SK hynix’s profit rises 557% amid global shortage, expansion costs climb to $27 billion — shares slide despite mammoth earnings as expectations out

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SK priced 177.9 million American depositary receipts at $149 each earlier this month, raising $26.51 billion in the largest share sale by a non-U.S. company on record, with the SEC filing earmarking proceeds for Korean m…

China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered thi

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Luke James is a freelance writer and journalist.\u00a0 Although his background is in legal, he has a personal interest in all things tech, especially hardware and microelectronics, and anything regulatory.\u00a0 “,”colla…

China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered thi

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Luke James is a freelance writer and journalist.\u00a0 Although his background is in legal, he has a personal interest in all things tech, especially hardware and microelectronics, and anything regulatory.\u00a0 “,”colla…

Apple launches official program for leasing Macs as AI price crunch bites — 24- and 36-month leasing options provided by Klarna

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Andrew E. Freedman is a senior editor at Tom’s Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming. He also keeps up with the latest news. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Tom’s Guid…

Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models wh

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This is could be bad news for OpenAI and Anthropic, given that most anyone with decent AI GPUs can now become their direct competitor, and the fact that Kimi K3 is open-weight also gives off the impression that “free” so…

Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of chip smuggling probe — held on suspicion of falsifying business documents, company says smuggling ‘a nonstarter’

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“Smuggling is a nonstarter,” an Nvidia spokesperson told Tom’s Hardware . “We primarily sell our products to well-known partners, including OEMs, who help us ensure that all sales comply with U.S. export control rules. E…