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Apple's Price Ladder: How "Just $50 More" Walks You Into the Pricier Model
You go to buy an iPad mini, pick 256GB, and suddenly you're paying more than an iPad Air. We charted every iPhone, iPad and Mac price on Apple's US store to show where the traps are, and when stepping up is actually worth it.
Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro brings OLED and Dynamic Island
The new PROLED XDR display responds to touch, the notch is gone and Dynamic Island takes its place. Prices start at $2,899.
Apple announces the M6 MacBook Pro, starting at $1,999
Apple says graphics are up to 30% faster and AI tasks up to 25% faster than M5. Battery life reaches up to 24 hours, while the familiar ports remain.
Apple announces Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, starting at $899
Preorders opened on August 25, with deliveries scheduled from September 22. Evaluating the two options requires considering the complete configuration and intended workload.
IBM outlines a dual-architecture processor for future Z and LinuxONE systems
The August 24 design announcement targets native IBM and Arm instruction execution within each core. It concerns a processor under development for future systems.
EVE Online becomes a research setting for AI memory and long-term planning
Google DeepMind’s August 21 update explains work with Fenris Creations. The program begins in an offline environment separated from live players.
Micron outlines a $10 billion long-term memory research plan
Announced on August 20, Micron Research Labs will be anchored in Boise. The spending is planned over a decade, with construction expected to begin in 2027.
Marvell and Google expand custom-silicon work around the TPU ecosystem
An August 19 filing details the technical scope and a conditional share-purchase warrant. The programs span AI accelerators, memory, networking and storage.
Samsung’s 400-plus-layer V10 BV-NAND: density is only part of the story
Samsung outlined its new NAND generation at FMS 2026. We examine what the density claim means, and why it cannot be translated directly into consumer SSD speed or pricing.
Azure expands with AMD Helios and EPYC across three upcoming VM families
Microsoft’s July 20 announcement outlines HDv2, HXv2 and ND MI455X v7, each targeting a different part of AI and HPC work.
Sandisk starts BiCS10 sampling: what the NAND milestone means for SSDs
New NAND advances the foundation of storage products. Understanding its significance requires separating a memory chip, its raw capacity and the finished drive.
IBM unveils 0.7nm nanostack chip technology as a research milestone
The approach builds transistors upward in three dimensions. The node name is not a literal measurement of every feature on the chip.
Samsung announces Galaxy A27 5G, emphasizing its display and long support
The new Galaxy A model raises a familiar buying question: how should specifications, years of support and the actual local price be weighed together?
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, a chip built for LLM inference
The accelerator targets the work of producing model responses, with initial deployment planned for the end of 2026.
Tim Cook says Apple price rises are unavoidable as memory costs climb
Apple's chief executive warned about rising memory and storage costs without announcing a new price list or identifying all affected products.
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute
A SpaceX filing shows Google renting about 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs from October 2026 through June 2029.
GPT-5.5 Instant becomes ChatGPT's default model
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant, with search that can reference past chats, files and Gmail.
OpenAI's Codex can now control your Mac
Codex can open apps, click and type in the background without interrupting your own work.
Meta raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices due to RAM shortage
From April 19, the Quest 3 costs $599.99 and the Quest 3S starts at $349.99.
Google unveils TurboQuant, shrinking AI working memory by at least 6x
A new compression algorithm cuts the memory AI models use while running. The internet is already calling it "Pied Piper."
iPad Air gets the M4 chip: 30% faster, still $599
Apple updated the iPad Air with M4, 12GB of memory and Wi-Fi 7, at the same starting price.