Apple’s Billion-Dollar Chip Backlog, Arctic’s Tariff Refund, and a 500Hz OLED Debut
A billion dollars in iPhone 18 chips are stuck waiting on memory, Arctic just handed a tariff refund back to cooler and fan prices, and ASUS pushed QD-OLED to 500Hz.
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NVIDIA’s Driver Fixes Halo’s RTX 50 Crashes, but Battlefield 6 Needed Its Own Patch
GeForce 610.88 closes a Halo: Campaign Evolved crash the driver itself caused, while Battlefield 6's RTX 50 crash got fixed on the game side instead. Separately, Sandisk and SK hynix published the first real spec for a NAND-based alternative to HBM.
The Densest NAND Chip Yet Is Built for Servers, and OLED Gets a Cheaper Recipe
Kioxia and Sandisk show the highest-density QLC NAND yet at Flash Memory Summit, and LG Display cuts an OLED emissive layer to chase cheaper monitor panels.