The AI boom benefiting makers of advanced chips has driven up prices for Samsung’s conventional DRAM and NAND chips needed for data center servers. Demand for its high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips still lags, but Samsung just previewed its best financial quarter in over three years, regardless.
The Internet darling valued at $100 billion in 2001 when it merged with Time Warner is for sale by Apollo Global Management for about 1 percent of that. Italy’s Bending Spoons is said to be interested, owner of WeTransfer, Evernote, Komoot, and Vimeo.
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Here’s a look at the small, affluent Ohio town Intel selected for the “largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet” back in 2022. Things are just as tumultuous as you’d expect, but nobody is promising to develop an AI 8K+5G ecosystem... yet.
Now, the biggest economic-development project in Ohio history is on uncertain ground as the chip maker struggles to keep pace with rivals. Some residents question whether the project will be completed, or whether Intel will own it when it is.
Despite Disney announcing the show’s return, the television operator in control of 39 local ABC affiliates across the US, including Washington DC, issued the following statement:
Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return.
It’s unclear if Nexstar, the other major operator that’s also seeking FCC approval for a merger, will follow suit.
If you live in Europe then you know the routine: open a new website, click through a cookie consent banner designed to maximize data gathering, let out a frustrated sigh and get on with life. That might be changing:
A note sent to industry and civil society attending a focus group on Sept. 15, seen by POLITICO, showed the Commission is pondering how to tweak the rules to include more exceptions or make sure users can set their preferences on cookies once (for example, in their browser settings) instead of every time they visit a website.
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Good for side-sleepers but ANC kills battery life.
