Tariff Shock: Camera Prices Spike at Summer’s End U.S. camera buyers were hit with déjà vu as multiple brands announced price hikes tied to new import tariffs at the close of August ts2.tech. Fujifilm confirmed that effective August 30 it raised U.S. prices across “all products” for the second time in a month, citing “volatile market…
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Tariffs Drive Up Camera Prices (Again) American camera buyers were hit with déjà vu at the end of August, as multiple brands announced price hikes tied to import tariffs. Fujifilm confirmed that effective August 30 it raised U.S. prices across “all products” for the second time in a month, citing “volatile market conditions” and the…
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Nvidia is developing a China-only AI chip named B30A, based on the Blackwell architecture, designed to outpace the current H20 while complying with U.S. export controls. The B30A will be a single-die design and is expected to deliver roughly half the raw computing power of Nvidia’s dual-die B300 accelerator. The B30A will include high-bandwidth memory…
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SK Hynix plans to double its sales of high-bandwidth memory chips this year to meet surging AI demand and will boost CAPEX, especially for HBM production. Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan is shifting from the 18A process to the 14A process to make Intel Foundry Services more competitive and catch up to TSMC. Nvidia’s high-end…
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Major Launches and Announcements (July 23–24) (No other major global phone launches were reported in this two-day span, as most big brands’ summer launches – such as Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7/Flip 7 reveal – occurred earlier in July. However, the new devices above underscore the week’s theme of long battery life and specialized designs.) Software Updates…
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Geely’s Zeekr is rumored to be preparing a hypercar with over 2,000 horsepower, an upgrade to the Zeekr 001 FR that currently has 1,300 horsepower. Lucid Motors’ Air Grand Touring set a Guinness World Record for the longest electric-vehicle journey without recharging, covering about 1,205 km from St. Moritz to Munich. BYD will start assembling…
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On July 3, 2025, Ukraine signed a co-production deal with U.S. firm Swift Beat to manufacture hundreds of thousands of drones in 2025, including interceptor, reconnaissance, and attack UAVs. DroneShield secured a $61.6 million contract to supply handheld drone detectors and jammers to a European military, with deliveries in Q3 2025 and plans for a…
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Samsara announced the Samsara Wearable at a June 24, 2025 conference, a rugged safety device with a >1-year battery life that detects falls or accidents in real time and alerts supervisors via the Samsara cloud. Zoox opened its first dedicated robotaxi production facility in California, a 220,000 sq ft plant capable of assembling 10,000 autonomous…
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In summer 2025, TSMC reported near 90% yield on its 3 nm process, versus Samsung’s roughly 50% yield. Samsung, which pioneered 3 nm gate-all-around transistors in 2022, continues to struggle with yields but has won Google’s Tensor G5 on 3 nm and other new clients for older nodes. TSMC and Samsung are racing toward 2…
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