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AI just shrank the PC market and is killing the cheap phone. Your gadgets are next

For the first time in two years, the world bought fewer PCs. Global shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations fell 3.6% in the second quarter of 2026, to 65.7 million units, according to the analyst firm Omdia. The cause is not weak demand. It is the price of memory, and the reason it is soaring […]

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Apple puts a $30bn US-manufacturing flag on its Broadcom chip deal

Apple is spending big to make chips at home. It has committed to a multi-year Broadcom deal worth more than $30 billion, Apple announced on Wednesday. That makes it Apple’s largest US manufacturing pledge to date. The scale is the story. The deal should yield more than 15 billion US-made chips and support hundreds of […]

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Apple starts testing China’s state-backed memory chips, and Washington is watching

Apple has begun testing memory chips from China’s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier Washington has flagged as a security risk. Apple has turned to Chinese memory chips for its own devices. It has begun testing DRAM from state-backed ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the […]

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Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA

Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple’s challenge to being labelled a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act, the designation that ties the […]

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The Supreme Court lets Texas turn Apple and Google into the internet’s age gate

Texas can now make Apple and Google check how old you are before you download an app. The Supreme Court just let the rule stand. The US Supreme Court has refused to block a Texas law aimed at app stores, the Associated Press reports. The rule forces Apple and Google to verify users’ ages and […]

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Broadcom extends its Apple chip work through 2031 in a fresh custom-silicon deal

Broadcom has extended its long-running relationship with Apple through 2031, signing new multi-year agreements to design and supply a range of custom chips for the iPhone maker. The deal deepens one of the most important supplier relationships in consumer electronics, and it sent Broadcom’s shares up around 4% as investors read it as a guarantee […]

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Apple supplier Luxshare set to price Hong Kong’s biggest IPO of 2026 at the top

Luxshare Precision is set to price its Hong Kong listing at the top of its range, a sign of strong demand for one of the year’s marquee share sales. The Apple supplier plans to fix the offer at the maximum HK$63.28 a share, according to people cited by Bloomberg, raising as much as $3.1bn and […]

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