The $4 trillion AI boom has largely been driven by Palantir’s sophisticated models and Nvidia's highly powered GPUs. Investors have poured billions of dollars into silicon, but a bottleneck formed as Rubin and Blackwell chips become smarter, faster, and… hotter. When chip power densities exceed ...
The $4 trillion AI boom has largely been driven by Palantir’s sophisticated models and Nvidia's highly powered GPUs. Investors have poured billions of dollars into silicon, but a bottleneck formed as Rubin and Blackwell chips become smarter, faster, and… hotter. When chip power densities exceed ...
In the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold. On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was price...
In the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold. On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was priced at 6,878 yuan (US$990) – having shot up nearly fivefold since September. “In my over 10 years in this industry, this is the single most aggressive price surge I have ever seen,” said Ye, who builds computers for individuals and enterprises. Advertisement Massive global investments in artificial intelligence are driving the spike. The so-called Big Three memory makers – Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology – are repurposing production lines to feed an insatiable appetite for the higher-margin memory chips used in AI data centres. As they make more of these high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, supply has dropped for the more pedestrian chips used in personal computers, smartphones and other devices. As painful as the skyrocketing prices are for Ye’s customers and many others, the chaos also presents a high-stakes opportunity for China’s domestic memory makers – led by ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) – to claim a larger slice of the global market. Advertisement Memory prices have been so volatile that in Huaqiangbei, price quotes now carry expiration dates measured in hours. An engineer surnamed Li, working at a store near Ye’s, said he had simply given up on drafting written quotes for clients, as prices change two or three times a day.
In the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold. On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was price...
In the world’s biggest wholesale electronics marketplace in the bustling Huaqiangbei district of the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, memory is the new gold. On a Tuesday in January, a merchant surnamed Ye held up a list of prices that looked more appropriate for luxury goods than humble computer parts. A pair of 32-gigabyte, 6000-megahertz Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory sticks was priced at 6,878 yuan (US$990) – having shot up nearly fivefold since September. “In my over 10 years in this industry, this is the single most aggressive price surge I have ever seen,” said Ye, who builds computers for individuals and enterprises. Advertisement Massive global investments in artificial intelligence are driving the spike. The so-called Big Three memory makers – Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology – are repurposing production lines to feed an insatiable appetite for the higher-margin memory chips used in AI data centres. As they make more of these high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, supply has dropped for the more pedestrian chips used in personal computers, smartphones and other devices. As painful as the skyrocketing prices are for Ye’s customers and many others, the chaos also presents a high-stakes opportunity for China’s domestic memory makers – led by ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) – to claim a larger slice of the global market. Advertisement Memory prices have been so volatile that in Huaqiangbei, price quotes now carry expiration dates measured in hours. An engineer surnamed Li, working at a store near Ye’s, said he had simply given up on drafting written quotes for clients, as prices change two or three times a day.
Weekend Long Read: China’s Disappearing Nomads 00:00 00:00 /00:00 您的浏览器不支持 audio 标签。 Listen to this article 1x Three generations of a Buryat family in Inner Mongolia’s Ewenki autonomous banner gather indoors together during lambing season in March 2016. Due to the cold weather, the family moved their newborn lambs and calves indoors to protect them from the chill. Photo: Ayin Far to the north in C...
Weekend Long Read: China’s Disappearing Nomads 00:00 00:00 /00:00 您的浏览器不支持 audio 标签。 Listen to this article 1x Three generations of a Buryat family in Inner Mongolia’s Ewenki autonomous banner gather indoors together during lambing season in March 2016. Due to the cold weather, the family moved their newborn lambs and calves indoors to protect them from the chill. Photo: Ayin Far to the north in China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in the Ewenki autonomous banner, more than 8,000 Buryats — an ancient branch of the nomadic Mongol people — continue to live off the animal husbandry skills passed down for generations. Known as the Xini River Buryats, or Chinese Buryats, they maintain ancient languages, dress and customs even as modernity encroaches on their expansive grasslands. You've accessed an article available only to subscribers Subscribe today for just $.99. VIEW OPTIONS Unlock exclusive discounts with a Caixin group subscription — ideal for teams and organizations. Subscribe to both Caixin Global and The Wall Street Journal — for the price of one. Share now and your friends will read it for free!
On a lively weekend afternoon beneath Marina Bay Sands, there is no stage, no spotlight and no audience in the conventional sense. Still, familiar music fills the underground concourse. A group of teenage girls moves in sync to rookie K-pop girl group Hearts2Hearts’ “Focus”, counting beats under their breath. A few meters away, another dance team rehearses choreography to Twice ’s “Feel Special”, ...
On a lively weekend afternoon beneath Marina Bay Sands, there is no stage, no spotlight and no audience in the conventional sense. Still, familiar music fills the underground concourse. A group of teenage girls moves in sync to rookie K-pop girl group Hearts2Hearts’ “Focus”, counting beats under their breath. A few meters away, another dance team rehearses choreography to Twice ’s “Feel Special”, adjusting their formation as shoppers pass by. No one appears surprised. Scenes like this now unfold routinely across Singapore , not only in landmark spaces but near everyday malls and underground transit corridors. Advertisement Pop-up stores dedicated to K-pop operated by major South Korean labels like SM Entertainment appear alongside cafes, fashion and lifestyle brand stores, drawing steady foot traffic. What emerges here is not a city hosting a temporary cultural event, but one in which K-pop has settled into daily life. As that presence becomes more visible across shared urban spaces, it has also begun to shape how Singapore positions itself as a destination for live entertainment. Members of K-pop band BTS perform on “Good Morning America” in New York’s Central Park in May 2019. Photo: Reuters
US Judge Grants Asylum To Chinese National Who Filmed China's Uyghur Prison Camps Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A pro-democracy activist who fled China after documenting what he described as concentration camps in the Xinjiang region was granted asylum on Jan. 28 by a New York state immigration judge , amid widespread concern about the risks he would face if deported....
US Judge Grants Asylum To Chinese National Who Filmed China's Uyghur Prison Camps Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A pro-democracy activist who fled China after documenting what he described as concentration camps in the Xinjiang region was granted asylum on Jan. 28 by a New York state immigration judge , amid widespread concern about the risks he would face if deported. Guan Heng speaks in a YouTube video that documents his trip to China’s Xinjiang region in October 2020. Screenshot/The Epoch Times Guan Heng, 38, applied for asylum after arriving in the United States illegally in 2021. He was living in New York state before he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August 2025. The case attracted international scrutiny in December 2025, with lawmakers in two dozen countries, including the United States, urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to abandon its plan to deport him to Uganda. The agency subsequently canceled the plan. During the Jan. 28 hearing in Napanoch, New York, Judge Charles Ouslander said that because Guan had filmed a video of the Xinjiang region, Guan had a “well-founded fear” of being persecuted if he were sent back to China. Guan was asked whether he filmed the detention camps and released the video shortly before arriving in the United States to support his asylum case. He said that was not his intent. “ I sympathized with the Uyghurs who were persecuted ,” Guan, speaking by video link from the Broome County Correctional Facility in Binghamton, New York, told the court through a translator. Human Rights in China (HRIC), a New York City-based advocacy group that has advocated for Guan’s release, has detailed Guan’s journey from China to the United States. In 2020, he read a BuzzFeed News report on detention centers in the Xinjiang region and decided to verify it, HRIC said. In October 2020, Guan traveled to the Xinjiang region alone. He released most of his video footage on YouTube in October...
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - Get Free Report) major shareholder 2017 Gp L.L.C. Gv sold 1,845,308 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Friday, January 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $19.00, for a total transaction of $35,060,852.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Major shareholders that own more than ...
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - Get Free Report) major shareholder 2017 Gp L.L.C. Gv sold 1,845,308 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Friday, January 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $19.00, for a total transaction of $35,060,852.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Major shareholders that own more than 10% of a company's stock are required to disclose their sales and purchases with the SEC. Get Alphabet alerts: Sign Up Alphabet Stock Performance Shares of GOOG traded down $0.13 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $338.53. The stock had a trading volume of 21,715,908 shares, compared to its average volume of 19,782,222. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $320.13 and a 200 day moving average price of $264.58. Alphabet Inc. has a 12 month low of $142.66 and a 12 month high of $342.29. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 1.75 and a quick ratio of 1.75. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.09 trillion, a PE ratio of 33.39, a PEG ratio of 1.86 and a beta of 1.09. Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, October 30th. The information services provider reported $2.87 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.29 by $0.58. The business had revenue of $102.35 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $99.90 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 32.23% and a return on equity of 35.00%. The firm's revenue was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $2.12 earnings per share. Analysts anticipate that Alphabet Inc. will post 8.89 EPS for the current year. Alphabet Dividend Announcement The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, December 15th. Investors of record on Monday, December 8th were paid a dividend of $0.21 per share. This represents...
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - Get Free Report) Director Frances Arnold sold 102 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $340.00, for a total value of $34,680.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 18,307 shares of the company's stock, valued at $6,224,380. This represents a 0.55% decrease in their posi...
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - Get Free Report) Director Frances Arnold sold 102 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $340.00, for a total value of $34,680.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 18,307 shares of the company's stock, valued at $6,224,380. This represents a 0.55% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Get Alphabet alerts: Sign Up Frances Arnold also recently made the following trade(s): On Wednesday, December 31st, Frances Arnold sold 102 shares of Alphabet stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $313.45, for a total value of $31,971.90. On Monday, December 1st, Frances Arnold sold 102 shares of Alphabet stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $317.66, for a total value of $32,401.32. Alphabet Stock Down 0.0% NASDAQ GOOG traded down $0.13 on Friday, reaching $338.53. The stock had a trading volume of 21,715,908 shares, compared to its average volume of 19,782,222. The company has a market capitalization of $4.09 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.39, a P/E/G ratio of 1.86 and a beta of 1.09. Alphabet Inc. has a 1 year low of $142.66 and a 1 year high of $342.29. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $320.13 and a 200 day moving average price of $264.58. The company has a current ratio of 1.75, a quick ratio of 1.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06. Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October 30th. The information services provider reported $2.87 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.29 by $0.58. Alphabet had a return on equity of 35.00% and a net margin of 32.23%.The company had revenue of $102.35 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $99.90 billion. During the same quarter in the pre...