iBUYPOWER, a leading system integrator of high-performance gaming PCs, announced today a formal expansion of its lineup with the launch of iBUYPOWER PRO Workstations, a new line of prebuilt and custom systems designed to meet the technical demands of creative professionals, software developers, and data-intensive workloads. The company also announced a warranty expansion, where it now offers three years of parts support as part of its existing three-year labor warranty.

With over 25 years of experience building gaming systems, iBUYPOWER brings its proven quality and service to the workstation space, where powerful machines are needed for a diverse range of workloads. Since workstations need to be highly reliable, iBUYPOWER is adding even more value to their PCs via their new warranty. Starting today, any new systems bought from iBUYPOWER.com are backed by a three-year warranty for parts and labor, a one-year increase from its previous two-year labor warranty. Customers will also benefit from fast turnaround times, with most systems shipping within five days or less; a sixty-day coverage period to ship their PC for repairs and diagnostics; and lifetime technical support.

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year. Company gross margin was 50.1 percent, including a favorable impact of approximately 2 percentage points from tariff refunds. Diluted earnings per share was $2.02, up 29 percent year over year, and included a favorable impact of $0.11 from tariff refunds.

"Today, Apple is proud to report our strongest June quarter ever, with double-digit revenue growth across iPhone, Mac and Services, and in every geographic segment," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "At WWDC26, we were thrilled to introduce the all-new Siri AI, alongside all of Apple's latest software innovations and important new child safety features."

This Tuesday, Seagate presented its Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings report and during the presentation it offered some updated storage roadmap details. The company says that new 50 TB HAMR hard drives are planned for customer validation in 2027. The current Mozaic 4+ platform supports drives up to 44 TB and is built around Seagate's Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Technology (HAMR). By the end of 2026, the company expects that Mozaic 4+ models will account for 50% of its HAMR exabytes shipped to customers. "We expect to achieve our next ramp milestone by exiting calendar 2026 with 50% of our HAMR exabytes on our Mozaic 4 platform," CEO, Dave Mosley said. CFO Gianluca Romano confirmed the company is on track to exceed 5 TB per platter and since Seagate flagship-tier HDDs use ten platters, we will have 50 TB per drive. The next step is Mozaic 5+, the third generation of the platform, which will enable that +5 TB per platter density. As mentioned, first Mozaic 5+ drives are expected to ship to customers for qualification later in 2027, after which they go through OEM and data center validation before any broader availability.

Seagate also has a lab demonstration target of 10 TB per platter around 2028, which would eventually bring drives close to the 100 TB range. Last year, Seagate disclosed that it successfully produced a prototype platter capable of storing roughly 6.9 TB of data and is trying to reach 8 TB per platter. The broader capacity roadmap runs from 40-44 TB in the 2027/2028 window, scaling to 50-60 TB around 2030, and pushing past 80 TB in the 2031/2032 timeframe. Worth keeping in mind what "customers" means in this context, these drives first go to Big Tech, enterprises and AI companies, not retail. Consumer availability typically follows years later, if at all.

Stardock today released Galactic Civilizations IV: Federations & Empires, an expansion that replaces the series' single government track with four completely distinct forms of government. The base game gives players one way to govern. Federations & Empires rebuilds the entire Government screen around each form's own resource, core loop, and free hero ship, so picking one means playing what feels like a different strategy game. The expansion is available now on Steam, Epic Games Store, and direct through Stardock with a launch discount price of $19.99, and it ships alongside a free Version 4.0 update for every Galactic Civilizations IV owner.

"Our goal is that each government type changes the way players play the game," said Brad Wardell, Lead Designer of the expansion. "Each government has its own special ships, resources, improvements, and more."

Razer, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, today announced the Razer Huntsman V3 HE Magnetic 8KHz line, a new Hall Effect (HE) magnetic gaming keyboard addition to its esports keyboard portfolio.

Available in Tenkeyless and Mini 65% form factors, the lineup combines Razer Hall Effect Magnetic Switches, true 8000 Hz HyperPolling, and a suite of advanced input controls to deliver cleaner, faster, and more consistent commands.

Samsung Electronics today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026.

The Company posted KRW 171.5 trillion in consolidated revenue, another all-time quarterly high, representing a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) increase of 28%. Operating profit also reached another all-time high, increasing to KRW 89.5 trillion. Earnings per share for both common and preferred shares increased by 52% to KRW 10,849, among the highest levels for global tech companies.

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced its third-generation (Gen 3) DDR5 Multiplexed Rank Dual In-Line Memory Module (MRDIMM) chipset solutions, delivering DDR5 server-class MRDIMM speeds up to 16,000 mega transfers per second (MT/s). The new solutions are designed to address the growing demand for higher memory bandwidth driven by artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, cloud infrastructure and accelerated compute workloads.

Renesas will showcase memory interface components for Gen 3 MRDIMMs at FMS 2026 (Future of Memory and Storage Conference), Santa Clara, California, August 4-6, 2026. (Booth #807) They include third-generation Multiplexed Registering Clock Driver (MRCD, RRG5013) and Multiplexed Data Buffer (MDB, RRG5103) devices that support next-generation MRDIMM performance.

Innodisk, a leading global AI solution provider, introduces the DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM to support the rapid growth of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics applications. With an industry-leading data rate of 12800 MT/s, this advanced memory module delivers exceptional bandwidth efficiency and scalability to meet the growing processing demands of AI-driven innovations.

Breaking the Memory Wall with Advanced Architecture
The growing complexity of AI and HPC workloads has exposed the limitations of traditional memory architectures, often referred to as the "memory wall"—a bottleneck where memory bandwidth fails to keep up with processing speeds, leading to inefficiencies. The DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM overcomes this challenge with its innovative Multiplexed Registering Clock Driver (MRCD) and Multiplexed Data Buffer (MDB) architecture. By enabling simultaneous two-rank access, this breakthrough design increases bandwidth by 60% compared to traditional DDR5 8000 MT/s RDIMMs, significantly improving data transfer speeds and computational efficiency. By reducing the load on the memory controller and lowering latency, this module enhances AI model training, large language models (LLMs), and robotic automation applications.

Today (July 29, 2026), Arm (NASDAQ: ARM) published a letter to its shareholders containing the company's results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2027, which ended June 30, 2026. The infographic below provides the key highlights for the quarter:

There are what the results mean and how they were achieved:

• Total revenue for Arm in Q1 FYE27 increased 22% year-over-year to $1.29 billion, representing another record quarter for revenue. This was driven by record first-quarter licensing and royalty revenue, with data center royalties more than doubling year over year and the continued adoption of Arm technology with higher royalty rates per chip, such as Armv9 architecture and Arm Compute Subsystems (CSS).

Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:

• Revenue was $90.0 billion and increased 18% (up 17% in constant currency)
• Operating income was $40.6 billion and increased 18%
• Net income was $35.8 billion and increased 31% on a GAAP basis, and was $35.3 billion and increased 22% on a non-GAAP basis
• Diluted earnings per share was $4.81 and increased 32% on a GAAP basis, and was $4.74 and increased 23% on a non-GAAP basis
• Non-GAAP results exclude the impact from investments in OpenAI, explained in the Non-GAAP Definition section below

Several discrete items impacted our financial results in the quarter when compared to our forward-looking guidance provided on April 29, 2026, resulting in a benefit of $0.27 on diluted earnings per share. These include a $3.2 billion gain from our investment in Anthropic and lower-than-expected expenses related to the Voluntary Retirement Program which were partially offset by severance expense and impairment charges in XBOX. When adjusting for these items, we exceeded expectations across revenue, operating income, and diluted earnings per share.

HRL Laboratories published a quantum computing milestone in Nature today: a quantum processor that runs itself. Quantum computers normally depend on racks of external electronics to generate every control signal. HRL replaced those racks with a custom control chip that sits near the qubits, in the extreme cold. The combined system autonomously ran error correction, an essential routine for any future quantum computer.

HRL's approach addresses a central obstacle for all quantum computing platforms: how to control the enormous number of qubits that a useful machine will require without an unmanageable tangle of wiring and electronics.

Synology today announced the FlashStation FS6420, the newest addition to its all-flash server lineup. Delivering exceptional throughput, it is designed for performance-intensive workloads, including virtual machine storage and protection, file synchronization, and business application hosting.

"The FS6420 meets the increasing need for fast, responsive storage in data-intensive environments," said Susan Yen, Product Manager at Synology. "With unified NAS and SAN capabilities, it provides a flexible storage platform for organizations running a wide range of workloads without the complexity of managing separate infrastructures."

The SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) reported today, in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry, that worldwide silicon wafer shipments increased 7.4% year-on-year to 3,573 million square inches (MSI) from the 3,327 MSI recorded during the same quarter of 2025. Shipments increased 9.1% quarter-over-quarter from the 3,275 MSI recorded during the first quarter of 2026.

"Silicon wafer shipments maintained steady growth in the second quarter, driven by strong and increasing AI-related demand beyond advanced logic and memory to include power devices, photonics, and other markets," said Ginji Yada, Chairman of SEMI SMG and Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, Sales and Marketing Division at SUMCO Corporation. "In addition, industrial and automotive demand is recovering, while memory price pressures are contributing to constrained PC and smartphone demand. Device manufacturers are investing heavily in capacity expansion, and silicon wafer demand growth is expected to continue."

SK hynix Inc. (or "the company," www.skhynix.com) announced today that it has recorded 79.3187 trillion won in revenues, 60.5426 trillion won in operating profit (with an operating margin of 76%), and 93.9226 trillion won in net profit (with a net margin of 118%), marking an all-time high quarterly performance.

Driven by sustained demand growth from expanding AI infrastructure investments, high-performance products for AI servers led price increases, enabling the company to surpass its previous record set in the prior quarter. Consequently, cumulative revenue for the first half of the year crossed the 100 trillion won mark for the first time in company history. Revenue and operating profit increased by 257% and 557% year-over-year, respectively.

SIX Swiss Exchange Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR—Logitech International (SIX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI) today announced financial results for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2027.

• Sales were $1.23 billion, up 7 percent in US dollars and 5 percent in constant currency, compared to Q1 of the prior year.
• GAAP gross margin was 49.5 percent, up 780 basis points, compared to Q1 of the prior year. Non-GAAP gross margin was 49.8 percent, up 770 basis points, compared to Q1 of the prior year. These numbers include $61 million in tariff refunds.
• GAAP operating income was $259 million, up 60 percent, compared to Q1 of the prior year. Non-GAAP operating income was $290 million, up 44 percent, compared to Q1 of the prior year. These numbers include $61 million in tariff refunds.
• GAAP earnings per share (EPS) was $1.63, up 66 percent compared to Q1 of the prior year. Non-GAAP EPS was $1.85, up 47 percent compared to Q1 of the prior year.
• Cash flow from operations was $167 million. The quarter-ending cash balance was $1.75 billion.
• The Company returned $114 million of cash to shareholders through share repurchases.

Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX) (the "Company" or "Seagate"), a leading innovator of mass-capacity data storage, today reported financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended July 3, 2026.

"Seagate's strong fourth quarter exceeded our expectations for revenue and non-GAAP EPS, capping a fiscal 2026 in which we grew annual revenue 34%, delivered record profitability, and generated a record $3.1 billion in free cash flow. Our performance is being driven by robust cloud data center demand and disciplined execution, and we see the momentum continuing in 2027," said Dave Mosley, Seagate's chair and chief executive officer.

Alienware has launched the AW2726DL, a 27-inch gaming monitor built around a fast 2560 x 1440 IPS anti-glare coated panel with a 280 Hz refresh rate and response times of 1 ms GTG in Extreme mode (2 ms Super Fast, 4 ms Fast). The display offers 400 nits of brightness, a 1,000:1 native contrast ratio, 93% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, and a pixel density of 109 PPI. For smooth gameplay, the monitor supports AMD FreeSync Premium and VESA AdaptiveSync variable refresh technologies. For connectivity, it offers an HDMI 2.1 input that supports QHD resolution up to 280 Hz with HDR and VRR. A DisplayPort 1.4 connection is also available.

The AW2726DL monitor retains the familiar Alienware gaming-focused design with a fully adjustable stand that offers 130 mm of height adjustment, tilt (from -5° to 21°), ±173° swivel and pivot support for portrait mode. In April this year, Alienware has launched the AW2726DM, a 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor priced at $350. The AW2726DL model with its IPS panel @280 Hz introduced by Alienware, is now available on the official Dell website for $299.99 and is aimed at users with lower budgets who are seeking an affordable 27-inch monitor with a higher refresh rate.

NVIDIA has released the GeForce 610.88 WHQL Game Ready driver, following last week's 610.82 Beta, which was a targeted fix specifically addressing crashes in Halo: Campaign Evolved and Path of Exile 2 ahead of this full WHQL release. In addition to the resolved crashes in Halo: Campaign Evolved on RTX 50 series GPUs with 610.xx drivers and the Path of Exile 2 solution for its intermittent long pauses after extended DX12 sessions, several other gaming bugs have been fixed. The Silent Hill F receives stability improvements, and Strange Brigade and Zombie Army 4: Dead War no longer crash on exit when the NVIDIA App In-Game Overlay is active. Frame pacing in certain DX11 games when using Smooth Motion with G-SYNC enabled is also improved.

Also, NVIDIA resolved other bugs with the RTX Dynamic Vibrance that were incorrectly applying to Wallpaper Engine and Paint.NET crashes on launch when NVIDIA Surround was enabled.

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FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme v8.35, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; AIDA64 Engineer v8.35, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for corporate IT technicians and engineers; AIDA64 Business v8.35, an essential network management solution for small and medium-sized enterprises; and AIDA64 Network Audit v8.35, a dedicated network audit toolset for collecting and managing corporate network inventories.

The latest AIDA64 update enhances support for next-generation AMD Zen 6, AMD Mustang Peak, and Intel Panther Lake-R processors. It also adds support for new LCD display solutions, USB-NVMe passthrough for the ASUS ROG Strix Aiolos, and hardware detection for the AMD Radeon RX 6300 GPU.

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