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Headlining our coverage this week is our story from Laptop expert Andrew Freedman, in his exploration of how and why Apple has chosen 2026 as the time to release an OLED — excuse me — PROLED display, with touch. After all, touch is a feature that Windows laptops have sported for well over a decade, along with OLED displays, offering unparalleled contrast ratios when compared to any other panel technology. In this feature, he explores the justifications and the likelihood of Apple slowly trickling the "brand-new" functionality to its suite of devices.
Last month, Micron revealed its brand-new product roadmap, featuring new DRAM devices, 3D NAND, the use of high-NA EUV lithography tools, and much more. NAND and DRAM are both incredibly hot topics, due to the ongoing rush to build faster, more capable AI accelerators, with Micron as one of the companies benefiting from the rush in demand. We go into detail about its 1δ DRAM, which is set to be manufactured on American shores. Beyond that, the company has also demonstrated its 11th-Gen NAND, which sports over 400 layers. With the next few years of its technologies explored in unrelenting technical detail, this roadmap details exactly where Micron's upcoming projects are, and where it's going next.
While ASML's EUV lithography machines remain in high demand, the company's latest technology, FDX Fusion, instead relies on tried-and-true DUV. Semiconductor expert Anton Shilov sits down with GlobalFoundries VP Sudipto Bose to detail the new tech, which boasts 7nm-class performance using advanced planar transistors, with broad applications across a range of devices, including within the data center. This unredacted interview transcript explores the hows and whys behind GlobalFoundries' decision to advance its FDX Fusion technologies without going down the EUV route, as many companies are currently doing, and offers an insider look at what the company might be planning in the future.
Luckily, it's not all about data centers and the technologies therein, as there are actual, new consumer PC parts that we're expecting to hit the market sometime in 2027. Of course, Intel's Nova Lake platform is abuzz with rumors over its boost clocks and big last-level cache (bLLC), which is touted as the company's answer to AMD's hugely popular X3D chips.
But a new platform means new motherboards and new chipsets to get your head around. For those brave enough to be considering a new PC upgrade in this economy, we explore everything that we currently know about Nova Lake's associated motherboards, which come alongside a brand-new socket and a suite of features up and down all budget ranges.
Marvell has signed an agreement to acquire optics company Lumentum, at a value of $115 billion. The move would combine two of the biggest players in the optical market into a single company. However, the deal would significantly impact Marvell's overall optical infrastructure portfolio, especially in the realm of in-house laser manufacturing. As companies rush to build both scale-up and scale-out domains, optics remains a huge part of the AI connectivity puzzle, as copper hits its natural limits. We explore all aspects of the proposed merger in our detailed analysis.
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