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Samsung Electronics is expected to post 108.1 trillion won of third-quarter operating profit, nearly nine times last year's, in guidance due Thursday. With foundry, chip design and phones all losing money, that figure now moves with memory prices and the won.
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Apple Pay launched in India on Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cards only, with Apple reportedly seeking a fee of about 20 basis points per transaction. How far it spreads now depends on bank negotiations and on acquirers enabling terminals one at a time.
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Micron's latest guidance says memory and storage supply will be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026. Teams buying hardware for those years should plan without relief, since the company says it cannot see when supply and demand will balance again.
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Apple took 33% of China's phone sales in the iPhone 18 Pro's launch week, Counterpoint Research says, with the standard iPhone 18 held back. Counterpoint counts that delay as one of three reasons, so the week cannot show how far the stagger alone moved buyers up to the Pro.
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Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra expects memory supply to be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026. With most of Micron's 2027 output already committed, buyers should budget for high memory prices through 2028.
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Google is selling the Fitbit Air in India for Rs 13,999, about $146 and roughly 47% more than the $99 it charges in the US. A band pitched elsewhere as the affordable screen-less option arrives as a premium buy where Indian startups compete on cost.
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SiMa.ai raised $150 million in a round co-led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45 billion valuation, about 51% above its July 2025 price. Its next chip lands in 2028 near the dense speed of the Nvidia Thor on sale today, so until then the price depends on today's Modalix chip winning Orin buyers.
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SiMa.ai closed an oversubscribed $150M Series C co-led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45bn post-money valuation, with J.P. Morgan and the State of Michigan among new backers. The round bets on chips that run AI on devices rather than in data centres.
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Reuters says Samsung lifted SF4, SF5 and 8nm prices in July as TSMC's advanced nodes filled up, with Chinese customers paying the most. Analysts now see the loss-making foundry breaking even.
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Counterpoint puts Europe's Q2 shipments at a three-year low and China's sales down 8.6%, while Apple added nine points of European share. Component costs are redrawing share, not just margins.
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Amazon repriced Echo, Kindle, Fire TV and eero overnight and blamed memory costs. The models it left alone hold more memory than the ones it raised.
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Three down sessions took the stock back toward what a Chinese listing normally does on day one. The valuation it is falling from has barely moved.
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The Section 1260H label leaves American firms free to buy CXMT chips, so what the lawsuit really contests is the political cost to customers like Apple, at a moment when the big three hold 90% of DRAM revenue.
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Only Xiaomi undercuts the folding iPhone's reported price; Huawei's trifold sits well above it, and because Huawei ships without Google services the whole contest is priced in yuan inside one market.
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Apple says the ongoing memory shortage is why every iPhone now costs $100 more, and MacBooks and iPads were repriced on the same grounds earlier. For fleet buyers, the component cycle has reached the price list.
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Apple's first foldable leads the Galaxy Z Fold8 by 102 Geekbench points and costs up to 1.6 million won more than Samsung's Ultra, a premium industry analysts attribute partly to memory supply disruption.
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The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB and runs to $3,199 for 2TB, making it the most expensive iPhone at launch, and it ships on October 23 into a category Samsung has led since 2019.
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Qualcomm launched two 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 phone chips in Maui and pitched them for on-device AI agents, with an NPU up to 35% faster. The standard chip's NPU gains 14%, so agents meant for the widest set of phones get the smaller jump.
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Meta shares are up more than 25% since Muse launched, on an agent whose early users were more than 95% existing Facebook users. The pendant meant to carry that audience off the iPhone has no price yet and has had two trading sessions to show up in the stock.
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Mark Zuckerberg met a year of harassment reports at Connect 2026 by restating the glasses' recording light, while Meta took 94% of first-half shipments. The resistance is coming from bystanders and the places they gather, in Australian council bans and London venues weighing their own.
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