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SK hynix Reports That 2025 HBM Memory Supply Has Nearly Sold Out

Anand Tech

So much so that SK hynix this week is very publicly announcing that the company's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity has already sold out for the rest of 2024, and even most of 2025 has already sold out as well. By contrast, Micron's share on HBM memory market is between 4% and 6%.

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Google Tried To Get Meta To Kowtow To Its Upcoming XR Platform

Upload VR

Google reportedly asked Meta to partner and "contribute to" its upcoming XR platform, but Meta said no. The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. We would love to partner with them.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.28): Quest 3 unboxing leaked, Samsung+Google headset situation is blurry, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product.

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Big XR News from Google, ChatGPT, Vodafone, and Seoul Metropolitan Government

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off 12,000 Jobs Late last week, Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, laid off roughly 12,000 individuals. The move accounts for around 6 percent of Google’s global workforce. Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees.

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Data Dive: 170 Million People Use Snap Scan

AR Insider

Visual search is just one of many developing flavors of AR, and it’s also being cultivated by Google ( Google Lens ) and Pinterest ( Pinterest Lens ). Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2020-2025. Google Lens is doing similar – seeding broad demand with pets and flower searches but increasingly expanding to products.

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The transition between Quest 2 and Quest 3

The Ghost Howls

And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. I would wait a bit more, probably until the second half of 2025. There are between 20 and 30 million of Quest 2 out there, while only 1M of Quest 3.

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Shopify Dives Deeper Into Camera Commerce

AR Insider

To attract them to the platform as an alternative to selling on Amazon, these distribution flows include Walmart , Google , Facebook , BuzzFeed. billion in physical goods spending by 2025. For example, it has been on a shopping spree for distribution partnerships to give its merchants greater reach and scale.

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