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SK Hynix Quintuples Q1 Operating Profit to a Record $25.4 Billion as AI Memory Demand Pushes the Industry Into a New Margin Regime
South Korean memory giant reported 37.6 trillion won in operating profit on 52.6 trillion won in revenue, a 405% year-over-year jump and the highest operating margin in its history at 72%, as HBM and high-density server DRAM rode an AI-driven demand wave.
TSMC Unveils 2029 Roadmap at Annual Symposium: A13, A12, and N2U Announced as A16 Slips to 2027
TSMC debuted its A13 and A12 process nodes and updated its full roadmap through 2029 at its North America Technology Symposium, while confirming A16 volume production slides to 2027.
Scientists Load First Complete Genome onto a Quantum Computer in World First, Opening a Path to Quantum Genomics
Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Oxford encoded the Hepatitis D virus genome onto IBM's 156-qubit Heron processor, marking the first time a complete genome has been processed on quantum hardware.
Google's Screenless Fitbit Air Leaks Ahead of Google I/O: A $99 Whoop Rival Without the Subscription
Leaked details reveal Google is preparing a screenless fitness band called Fitbit Air, priced at $99 with no mandatory subscription, targeting the recovery-tracking market dominated by Whoop.
GE Profile Smart Fridge With Kitchen Assistant Hits Retailers in April at $4,899, Betting a Barcode Scanner and Crisper Camera Can Justify the Price
GE Appliances' new 4-door French-door refrigerator ships this month with a built-in barcode scanner, an AI-powered FridgeFocus camera over the crisper drawers, and direct Instacart ordering from the SmartHQ app.
Google Splits Its Eighth-Generation TPU Into Training and Inference Chips as Anthropic Locks in Up to a Million Units
At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled the TPU 8t and TPU 8i, its first-ever split TPU line, with Anthropic as anchor customer for up to one million chips across 2026 and 3.5 gigawatts in 2027.
Apple's AirPods Max 2 Bring the H2 Chip and Live Translation Five Years After the Original, With the Same 385-Gram Shell
Apple's first AirPods Max refresh since 2020 swaps in the H2 chip and inherits AirPods Pro 3 features while keeping the unchanged industrial design, weight, and rated 20-hour battery life.
AWS Interconnect Multicloud Goes GA with Google Cloud as Launch Partner, Setting an Open Spec That Azure and OCI Have Agreed to Follow
AWS moved its cross-cloud private networking service to general availability on April 14, turning a preview into production and a bilateral deal into what analysts are calling a de facto standard.
DARPA Launches HARQ to Build Quantum Computers That Mix Qubit Technologies
DARPA's Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum program will fund 19 teams over 24 months to combine different qubit types into unified quantum systems, abandoning the single-technology approach.
Apple's Smart Glasses Take Shape With Four Frame Styles and a 2027 Launch Window
Apple is reportedly testing four frame styles for its first smart glasses, signaling a more consumer-friendly wearables push ahead of a possible 2027 launch.
Oppo Takes the Find X9 Ultra Global, Betting a Dual 200MP Hasselblad System Can Redraw the Camera-Phone Map
Oppo's camera-first Find X9 Ultra launches worldwide on April 21, the first Ultra-tier Find model sold outside China, pairing two 200MP sensors with a 10x periscope and AirDrop-compatible file sharing.
French Startup C12 Unveils Four-Generation Roadmap to 100,000-Qubit Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2033 Using Carbon Nanotube Spin Qubits
Paris-based C12 published a four-stage plan to scale its carbon nanotube spin-qubit processors from 16 physical qubits in 2027 to over 100,000 by 2033, betting a solid-state modality can catch incumbents on error-corrected quantum computing.