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AMD is reportedly planning price hikes to its graphics cards to cover soaring memory costs: An extra $20 for 8GB models and $40 for 16GB models. (Tom's Hardware)

Which is not all that bad.
AMD has also - reportedly - increased prices for its CPUs, which don't contain any DRAM. (Overclock3D)

To add to the mystery, while this increase is supposed to have already happened, nobody seems to know which models are affected or what the increases are. Indeed, the whole thing might just be the end of Black Friday discounts at the distributor level.

Tech News

The Trump administration is planning to take a $150 million equity stake in startup xLight, which aims to make better EUV lasers for chip production. (WSJ) (archive site)

Current EUV fab equipment uses 13.5nm lasers. xLight is planning to bring that down to just 2nm, which is pretty inarguably an x-ray more than UV light.

This takes money from the 2022 CHIPS Act, which apparently still has $6 billion available to spend on chip fabrication facilities.
San Francisco is suing ten food companies for producing food. (NBC)

"How very dare you?!", squeaked city attorney David Chiu.
Bending Spoons is buying Eventbrite for $500 million. (Tech Crunch)

Bending Spoons is assembling quite the collection of has-been companies here, including Evernote, Meetup, Vimeo, and AOL, which you may have heard of.
Apple has said that it won't pre-install India's mandatory spyware on its phones. (Reuters)

I'm game. We'll see who rusts first.

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