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    United States Ease Stance on NVIDIA AI Chip Exports to China

    Huang must have greased their palms, maybe some nice stock options... This is why corporations don't take governments (or laws) seriously :/ .
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    Samsung Unveils New Portable SSD T5 EVO

    That good 'ol Samsung upcharge is now in effect I see.
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    Samsung Said to be Increasing NAND Pricing by 20% Per Quarter

    I remember reading an analysis report earlier in the year they expected prices to go up by winter/holiday but I haven't seen that materialize. Unless they're strictly talking enterprise?
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    Samsung Said to be Increasing NAND Pricing by 20% Per Quarter

    This may work for enterprise customers but good luck getting any more sales with regular customers. Samsung isn't on top anymore and the competition is always releasing cheaper alternatives. Remember that storage prices go down overall, never back up as they increase storage capacity per chip...
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    AMD Instinct MI300X Could Become Company's Fastest Product to Rake $1 Billion in Sales

    I can't help but think that the new AI trend is another bubble for GPU manufacturers. Once it crashes they'll be scrambling for customers again, or worse yet those AI programs will help corporations develope their own chips for their needs and cut the legacy companies out.
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    microSD Express Doubles Speeds, New SD Express Speed Classes Introduced

    At this rate people will start using NVMe 2230 drives for their smart devices and manufacturers can avoid the licensing fees. I use to have hope that these would be adopted but now I feel the speeds are too slow to compete with anything today or the future.
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    U.S. Restricts Exports of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 to China

    Why not just ban all Nvidia GPUs altogether since they utilize CUDA and the U.S. obviously wants to cripple their server development. I view most of this as unserious and just showboating, more dramatic efforts could be taken if we were serious. Like others have pointed out it's too late...
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    The New Samsung Galaxy S23 Series: Designed for a Premium Experience Today and Beyond

    Still have my Note 10+ and it's sad after 4 years they still haven't changed their design much; they removed the SD Card slot (even though there are dual sim models available, which means they have the space to add it back in), kept the screen at 6.8" but with 120hz support, same 12GB of memory...
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    Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 pen display engineered for harmony

    Love their technology but with competition from other vendors with better or more portable display technology, they're really pricing themselves out of the market. Their brand doesn't have the same weight like it did when they were the only fish in town, for the same price you can get a full...
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    Kioxia Develops Industry's First 2TB microSDXC Memory Card Working Prototypes

    This would be a nice way to hold all my emulators and roms in one place for my phone. Right now I have 1TB of storage and with music plus family photos it's nearly full. The internet isn't always going to be there so I have a lot of music albums in case (and it has come in handy in dead spots).
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    8-pin PCIe to ATX 12VHPWR Adapter Included with RTX 40-series Graphics Cards Has a Limited Service-Life of 30 Connect-Disconnect Cycles

    Almost wondering why the didn't go with a larger gauge wiring but that would only make things melt faster. More bad news for Nvidia if this ends up being an issue with gaming rigs that have bad air flow; need to carry away the heat from the wires or it can lead to some melted connectors.
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    LG Takes Gaming Immersion Next-Level With World's First Bendable 42-Inch OLED TV

    I've used a 42" screen as a computer monitor before and I was very comfortable with the size and distance. This being able to curve would make that expierence better plus the added extra of 4K and 120hz. At that size the 4K detail will be better noticed in games, everyone has their preferences...
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    ASUS Announces Vivobook 14 OLED, 15 OLED and 16 OLED

    Was excited until I read only USB-C Gen 1 and Intel chips. Nothing against Intel but I would like to do some light gaming and USB-4 support at this point for productivity. Oh well, next year I suppose *shrug*.
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    Introducing Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4: The Most Versatile Devices, Changing the Way We Interact With Smartphones

    I use to be heavy into Android in the early days but now it feels like the OS updates don't really matter anymore. It didn't help in the mid 2010's when other vendors did interesting software tricks like Motorola's always-on display or Samsung's multi-window before offical Android OS...
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    Introducing Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4: The Most Versatile Devices, Changing the Way We Interact With Smartphones

    Still overpriced for what it offers, should have faster charging since the battery life is medicore (or actually have a bigger battery, +5000 mAh) and still no microSD card slot even though it's a "productivity" device. No high end cameras still from the Galaxy S line and the internal camera is...
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