1. Samsung union discloses strike impact: memory chip production plummets by over 18% in a single day. 2. DeepSeek input cache price drops to 1/10 of its initial launch price. 3. Samsung and Kingston SSDs raise prices, with increases starting at 10

2026-04-27

1. Samsung union discloses strike impact: memory chip production plummets by over 18% in a single day. 2. DeepSeek input cache price drops to 1/10 of its initial launch price. 3. Samsung and Kingston SSDs raise prices, with increases starting at 10%. 4. Biwin Storage launches industrial-grade wide-temperature eMMC TGE408: self-developed controller, algorithms, and locally sourced NAND. 5. Seagate announces its external storage "three musketeers": One Touch, FireCuda X Vault, and LaCie 8big Pro5. 6. Reports indicate Nanya Technology has entered the LPDDR memory supply chain for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform. 7. Intel's collaboration on ZAM memory development receives Japanese government subsidies: claims to have approximately 40% lower power consumption than traditional HBM, with mass production targeted for around 2029. 8. Ming-Chi Kuo: OpenAI partners with Qualcomm and MediaTek to develop mobile phone chips, with mass production expected in 2028. 9. LoongArch incorporates several improvements into the Linux 7.1 kernel, enhancing CPU vulnerability handling and expanding support for atomic instructions.