Daily Tech News 3 July 2026

• SK Hynix - the third of the Big Three memory manufacturers after Micron and Samsung - is planning to invest $712.5 billion to expand production. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which I am pretty sure is still a lot.
  
  The article says the total amount involved is 1.1 trillion won (KRW), but that's a mistake; it's actually 1.1 quadrillion won.
  
  $64 billion goes to expanding the company's existing facilities at Cheongju for producing NAND flash and packaging chips. $389 billion goes to the new campus at Yongin with initial production planned for next year and meaningful scale in 2028. The site was originally planned for completion in 2045, but that's been accelerated to 2033 - still a fair way out, but factories will come online in stages throughout those years.
  
  And $259 billion to a brand new campus that they have not even settled on a location for just yet.

• SpaceX has categorically denied that it is working on an AI device thinner than an iPhone running a proprietary operating system that is coloured mint green and makes random South American frog noises when you drop it into wet cement. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Seems oddly specific.
  
  
  
• Intel is planning to restart supply of 10th, 12th, 13th, and 14th generation processors... In China. (WCCFTech)
  
  14th - and for some reason, 12th - generation chips are still readily available, and Intel has committed to continued production. 13th generation chips have disappeared from the market but nobody really misses them because they are the same as 14th generation chips only slightly worse.
  
  
  
• The Rootboard is a Linux-based handheld computer based around a Raspberry Pi. (Liliputing)
  
  Aren't Raspberry Pi board extremely expensive now, I hear two of you ask.
  
  Well, yes, but actually no. This project is built around the Pi Zero family, which while low-end (all versions have 512MB of RAM) has weathered the DRAM Apocalypse better than other models.
  
  
  

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