• Memory prices may be leveling off - at four times what they were just a few months ago.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Supplies are still very constrained, but people are buying less RAM - either avoiding upgrades entirely or building smaller systems - so prices are stalling in the ionosphere rather than continuing on an intergalactic cruise.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix - one of the big three memory manufacturers - has reported its most recent quarterly results.  (CNBC)
  
  No surprise, the numbers are good.  Revenue is up 66% over the past year, and profit is up 137%.
  
  Good for them.  Not good for you.

• Nvidia's DGX Spark can be significantly faster on AI tasks than systems built on AMD's Ryzen AI Max.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  When it launched it cost twice as much as the AMD systems, leaving plenty of room for the two to compete.  But the AMD systems seem to have been hit badly by the DRAM Apocalypse while the Nvidia systems have somehow come down in price.
  
  So if all you want to do is run local AI models, the DGX Spark is a better bet.  If you want to do anything else with it - certainly if you want to run Windows - you may be better of sticking with AMD.
  
  
  
• Google's desktop version of Android looks to be real.  (Liliputing)
  
  The year of Linux on the desktop?
  
  I mean, it can't be worse than Windows.
  
  Surely.
  
  
  
• The Khadas Mind Pro has been updated with Intel's new Panther Lake CPU with is B390 graphics.  (Liliputing)
  
  $1799 with 64GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD, which used to be wildly expensive, and now seems normal.
  
  
  

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