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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Nothing will “inevitably” hike smartphone prices because of rising memory costs.

That’s according to Nothing CEO Carl Pei, who, in a big post on X, also said that:

Memory is fast becoming one of the most expensive smartphone components and potentially the single largest cost driver in the bill of materials by year-end, with estimates suggesting that memory modules which cost less than $20 a year ago could exceed $100 by year-end for top-tier models.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
The glass cloth bottleneck.

Here’s yet another manufacturing pressure we have the AI chip boom to thank for: glass cloth. It’s a key component in the chip substrates for printed circuit boards, and the industry is mostly reliant on a single manufacturer in Japan, which can no longer keep up with demand.

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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
The Lego Smart Brick debate has been brewing for decades, David and I agree.

That’s me on The Vergecast, debating the finer points of our CES 2026 Best in Show: the Lego Smart Brick. Why is it smart, and is it an affront to the imagination? Spoiler: my wife isn’t convinced! And did David make the pew-pew sounds when he was a kid? Tune in.