Montreal, Thursday September 10, 2026. Every so often the technology industry produces a day where three separate storylines — one about physics, one about economics, and one about risk — all land at once. Yesterday and today gave us exactly that. In Cupertino, Apple pulled the wrapper off the first 2-nanometre-class processor to ship inside an iPhone, which means the transistor architecture that engineers have been promising since the mid-2010s is now sitting in a consumer's pocket. In the memory market, a shortage that began as an AI data-centre story has finished its migration into the price of ordinary laptops, desktops and game consoles. And on Tuesday, Microsoft published the largest single security update in the company's history: 974 CVEs, two of them already being exploited in the wild.

These are not three unrelated headlines. They are three views of the same underlying shift: computing capacity is being reallocated, at enormous scale, toward artificial intelligence — and that reallocation is changing what silicon looks like, what memory costs, and even how software defects are discovered. In today's edition of Tech Science Daily we start with the ten stories worth knowing, then take three of them apart to see how the engineering actually works, and finish with practical guidance on what to buy, what to skip, and what to configure carefully while the market is doing what it is doing.

Today's Tech Radar

1. The 2nm Era Actually Arrives: What Gate-All-Around Really Changes

A finished silicon wafer: hundreds of identical dies patterned in the same lithography sequence. Photo: Laura Ockel / Unsplash.

On September 9, Apple announced the A20 Pro, describing it as a chip built on "a brand new architecture using 2nm process technology" for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The specifications Apple published are concrete: a six-core CPU with two new "super cores" up to 20% faster, four new efficiency cores, a redesigned seven-core GPU with up to 40% faster graphics, a Neural Engine expanded to 32 cores delivering twice the compute of its predecessor, new neural accelerators inside the GPU with twice the FP8 throughput of the previous generation, and — the number that ties everything together — a 50% increase in memory bandwidth. Apple also said the chip uses "custom packaging inspired by our M-series chips," connecting silicon and memory directly to a vapor chamber, and claimed 40% more sustained performance than the A19 Pro and roughly double that of the A18 Pro.

The marketing is easy to read. The engineering underneath is worth slowing down for, because "2nm" is one of the most misunderstood numbers in consumer technology.

"2 nanometres" is a name, not a measurement

There is no feature on a 2nm-class chip that is two nanometres wide. For roughly the past fifteen years, process node names have been marketing labels indicating a generation, not a physical dimension. What matters is the combination of three things a foundry can actually quantify: transistor density (how many devices fit per square millimetre), performance at a fixed power budget, and power at a fixed performance level.

TSMC — which manufactures Apple's chips — began volume production of its N2 process at the very end of 2025 and has been ramping through 2026. Against its previous N3E node, TSMC's published figures for N2 are a 10–15% performance gain at the same power, a 25–30% power reduction at the same performance, and about a 15% increase in transistor density. Those are meaningful but not miraculous numbers; the interesting part is how they were achieved, because N2 is TSMC's first node using gate-all-around nanosheet transistors instead of FinFETs.

From fins to sheets: the electrostatics problem

A transistor is, at its simplest, a switch. A channel of semiconductor carries current between a source and a drain, and a gate electrode sitting above the channel controls whether current flows. The gate does this electrostatically: applying a voltage to the gate creates a field that either populates the channel with mobile charge carriers or depletes it.

The difficulty in modern chips is that as the channel gets shorter, the source and drain get closer together, and their own electric fields start competing with the gate's field for control of the channel. When the gate loses that competition, the transistor stops switching cleanly: current leaks through even when the device is supposed to be off. Leakage costs power continuously, and at billions of transistors it becomes the dominant limit on battery life and thermal design.

The industry's answer since roughly 2011 was the FinFET: instead of a flat channel with a gate on top, the channel was raised into a thin vertical "fin," and the gate wrapped around three of its sides. More contact area between gate and channel means better electrostatic control. That bought a decade of scaling.

Gate-all-around is the logical next step. Rather than a vertical fin, the channel is formed from several horizontal ribbons — nanosheets — stacked one above another, and the gate material completely surrounds each sheet on all four sides. The gate now has total electrostatic authority over the channel. Two practical consequences follow. First, off-state leakage drops sharply, which is where a large part of that 25–30% power saving comes from. Second, drive current becomes tunable in a way it never was with fins: because the sheets are patterned rather than etched as discrete fins, a designer can widen a nanosheet continuously to trade area for current, instead of being forced to add whole fins in integer steps. Chip designers get finer-grained control over the performance–power–area triangle for every individual circuit block.

Why the headline gains are modest — and why that is the point

Readers who remember the 1990s may find a 15% density improvement underwhelming. It is worth remembering why. Classical Dennard scaling — the observation that shrinking a transistor made it simultaneously smaller, faster and lower-power — broke down in the mid-2000s, when supply voltages stopped falling in step with dimensions. Since then, every node has been an exercise in engineering around physics rather than riding it. Gate-all-around does not restore Dennard scaling; it restores control, which is what allows a node to keep delivering usable improvements at all.

A close look at Apple's own numbers reflects this. Much of the 20% CPU gain appears attributable to a higher achievable clock frequency, which is exactly what a lower-leakage, better-controlled transistor enables. The bigger relative jumps are elsewhere: 40% on graphics, 2× on the neural accelerators' FP8 math, 50% on memory bandwidth. That distribution tells you what the chip was designed for.

FP8, and the arithmetic of on-device AI

The phrase "twice the FP8 performance" deserves unpacking, because it explains why phones and laptops have started shipping with unusual arithmetic units.

A neural network is, computationally, an enormous pile of multiply-accumulate operations on matrices of weights. Historically those weights were stored as 32-bit floating-point numbers (FP32). But neural networks turn out to be remarkably tolerant of imprecision: reducing weights to 16-bit, 8-bit, or even 4-bit representations often costs very little accuracy while cutting memory footprint and bandwidth proportionally. FP8 — an 8-bit floating-point format — is a particularly useful compromise because, unlike 8-bit integers, it retains an exponent field and therefore a wide dynamic range, which matters when a network's activation values span many orders of magnitude.

The practical arithmetic: a model with 7 billion parameters needs roughly 28 GB at FP32, about 14 GB at FP16, and roughly 7 GB at FP8. Only the last figure is plausible on a phone or a thin laptop. This is why Apple pairs the FP8 claim with "the widest memory interface we've ever shipped in an iPhone" and a 50% bandwidth increase. Inference on a large language model is overwhelmingly memory-bandwidth-bound, not compute-bound: for each token generated, the processor must stream a large fraction of the model's weights from memory. Doubling arithmetic throughput without increasing bandwidth would simply leave the arithmetic units waiting.

Thermals: the constraint nobody markets

The single most honest number in Apple's announcement is the sustained-performance figure. Peak benchmark scores are set in the first seconds of a workload, before the package heats up. Sustained performance is what you get after minutes of video export, game rendering, or on-device model inference — and it is governed entirely by how fast heat can leave the silicon.

A vapor chamber is a sealed, partially evacuated cavity containing a small quantity of working fluid and a wicking structure. At the hot end, the fluid absorbs heat and evaporates; the vapour travels to a cooler region, condenses, releases its latent heat, and the wick returns the liquid by capillary action. Because phase change moves far more energy per gram than simply warming a solid, the effective thermal conductivity of a good vapor chamber can exceed that of solid copper by a large factor. Bonding the silicon and memory directly to that structure removes thermal interface layers that would otherwise dominate the resistance path. The lesson generalises: in 2026, a device's real-world performance is often set by its chassis and cooling design rather than by the number printed on the chip.

What this means when you are buying

Two-nanometre silicon is, today, a flagship-phone story. For PCs, the relevant question is different and more immediate: does the machine have a competent neural processing unit, and does it have enough memory bandwidth and capacity to use it? Windows machines built around Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 (Lunar Lake) and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X family already carry NPUs in the 40–50 TOPS range, which is the threshold Microsoft set for its Copilot+ PC features.

If on-device AI is a real part of your workflow rather than a checkbox, the configuration that matters most is memory. A machine like the Dell Pro 16 Plus PB16250 with Core Ultra 7 268V and 32 GB is the sensible baseline: Lunar Lake places its memory on the processor package, which shortens the path between the compute engines and DRAM and improves both latency and energy per bit transferred. The 32 GB configuration exists precisely so that a quantised local model and your actual applications can coexist. For a lighter, more portable option built on the same platform, the Dell Pro 14 Premium PA14250 with Core Ultra 5 236V covers document, browser and video-call work comfortably.

If battery endurance ranks above raw throughput, the Arm-based route is worth a serious look. The Dell Latitude 5455 with Snapdragon X Plus uses the same architectural philosophy that made mobile silicon efficient — heterogeneous cores, aggressive power gating, a large NPU — applied to a 14-inch notebook. And if your requirement is a durable business machine with a long support runway rather than the newest platform, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 (i7, 16 GB, 512 GB) remains one of the best-built thin-and-light chassis in circulation. Not sure which side of that trade-off you sit on? Tell us the three applications you actually live in and request a free quote from our team — we will size it against real workloads rather than a spec sheet.

2. The Memory Supercycle: Why RAM Became the Most Expensive Part of Your Computer

A DRAM module in macro. Each black package holds billions of one-transistor, one-capacitor cells. Photo: Liam Briese / Unsplash.

If you have shopped for a computer, a memory upgrade or a game console this year, you have felt this story before you read it. The numbers behind it are stark. Industry analysts estimate DRAM prices have risen more than 400% between the start of 2024 and the end of 2026, with spot prices moving even more violently. AI data centres are estimated to consume roughly 70% of high-end DRAM output in 2026 — a complete inversion of the historical pattern, in which consumer devices set the volume and servers took the remainder.

The consequences are visible on retail shelves. The Nintendo Switch 2 rose to $499.99 USD on September 1, 2026; the Xbox Series X moved to $799.99 on August 1, up from a $499.99 launch price. Handheld gaming PCs have drifted toward and past the $1,800 mark. On the forecast side, analysts project a 12.9% decline in smartphone shipments and an 11.3% contraction in the PC market for 2026 — declines driven not by weak demand but by cost.

Why DRAM cannot simply be made faster

To understand why this shortage is structural rather than a passing squeeze, you have to look at what a DRAM cell physically is.

Each bit of dynamic RAM is stored as electrical charge on a tiny capacitor, gated by a single access transistor — the classic 1T1C cell. This is a beautifully economical design: one transistor and one capacitor per bit, which is why DRAM is far denser and cheaper per gigabyte than SRAM (which needs six transistors per bit and is used for processor caches).

But the design has an inherent flaw. Capacitors leak. The stored charge dissipates within milliseconds, so every cell must be read and rewritten thousands of times per second — this is the "dynamic" in dynamic RAM, and it is why DRAM consumes power even when idle. Crucially, the capacitor must hold enough charge to be reliably distinguished from noise by the sense amplifier. That sets a floor on capacitance, and therefore on the physical volume of the capacitor.

This is the heart of the problem. Logic transistors have scaled by getting geometrically cleverer — fins, then nanosheets. Capacitors cannot play that game, because capacitance is fundamentally a matter of plate area, dielectric permittivity and plate separation. Manufacturers have responded by building capacitors vertically as extraordinarily deep, narrow trenches — structures with aspect ratios exceeding 100:1, the equivalent of a well a hundred times deeper than it is wide, etched with atomic-scale precision billions of times across a wafer — and by moving to exotic high-permittivity dielectrics. But the returns diminish, and each generation is harder than the last. DRAM density improvements have slowed markedly compared to logic.

Result: making more DRAM bits largely means running more wafers. And wafer capacity requires fabs, and fabs take years and tens of billions of dollars.

HBM: how AI eats the same capacity twice

The second half of the explanation is High Bandwidth Memory. AI accelerators are limited by how fast they can feed data to their arithmetic units, so they use HBM: several DRAM dies stacked vertically, connected by through-silicon vias — vertical copper channels drilled straight through the silicon — and mounted on an interposer immediately adjacent to the processor die. The result is an extremely wide interface: thousands of parallel data lines instead of the sixty-four a conventional DIMM channel offers, producing per-stack bandwidth measured in terabytes per second.

HBM is manufactured from the same DRAM wafers as ordinary memory, on the same production lines. But it consumes disproportionately more of them, for three compounding reasons. Stacking multiple dies means a defect in any layer can scrap the whole stack, so effective yield is lower. The dies require extra processing for the through-silicon vias. And the assembly step itself is slow and capacity-constrained. Every wafer directed to HBM removes more than one wafer's worth of conventional DRAM from the market.

Because HBM commands far higher margins, and because AI infrastructure buyers are considerably less price-sensitive than laptop manufacturers, the allocation decision writes itself. This is what makes the shortage structural: it is not a hurricane or a fire at a plant, but a deliberate, rational, long-term reallocation of global semiconductor capacity. Relief depends on new fab capacity arriving, and industry commentary points to elevated pricing and tight allocation persisting through 2027, with significant new capacity from some suppliers not expected until 2028.

Six practical rules for buying in a memory-constrained market

Rule one: buy the RAM you will need, at purchase time. This is the single most consequential decision in a 2026 configuration. Modern thin-and-light laptops increasingly use memory soldered to the mainboard or, in the case of Lunar Lake, integrated onto the processor package itself. That design delivers genuine benefits — shorter traces, lower latency, better energy per bit — but it makes memory permanently non-upgradable. In a market where RAM prices are climbing, "I will add more later" is both technically impossible on many machines and financially worse if it is possible.

Rule two: 16 GB is now the floor, not the comfortable middle. A modern browser with a working set of tabs, a video-conferencing client, an office suite and a security agent will consume most of 16 GB before you have opened anything demanding. If your work involves virtual machines, large datasets, professional media editing, or local AI models, 32 GB is the practical baseline — which is why the Dell Pro 16 Plus with 32 GB is our default recommendation for professional users this season.

Rule three: for desktops and workstations, prefer socketed DIMMs and leave a slot free. Desktop platforms still use removable modules, which preserves the option to expand later even at higher prices. The Dell Pro Max Tower T2 with Core Ultra 9 285, 32 GB across two DIMMs and a 1 TB SSD is configured exactly this way. For a compact machine, the Dell Pro Max Micro FCM2250 with 32 GB and discrete Nvidia graphics fits a workstation-class configuration into a footprint that hides behind a monitor.

Rule four: do not economise on storage to fund memory. When physical RAM is exhausted, the operating system pages to the SSD. A fast NVMe drive makes that failure mode tolerable; a slow or nearly-full drive makes it miserable. A PCIe Gen4 x4 drive such as the Samsung 990 PRO 2 TB with heatsink delivers sequential throughput in the multiple-gigabytes-per-second range and, just as importantly, high random IOPS at low queue depths — the access pattern that actually governs how responsive a desktop feels. Keep at least 20% of any SSD free; NAND flash relies on spare blocks for wear levelling and garbage collection, and a drive filled to the brim slows down measurably.

Rule five: separate "computer" from "display." Panel pricing has not been hit the way memory has. If your budget is under pressure, a modest compute configuration paired with a large, good display often produces more day-to-day benefit than the reverse — additional screen area is one of the few upgrades with a well-documented effect on productivity. The Samsung Essential S32B304NWN 32-inch Full HD monitor is an inexpensive way to add real estate, while the Samsung S34C504 34-inch 21:9 ultra-wide with HDR10 replaces a dual-monitor setup with a single uninterrupted canvas.

Rule six: on a tight budget, target the workload precisely. Not every user needs a 32 GB AI-capable notebook. For students, kiosks, shared terminals and browser-centric work, the Lenovo 100e Chromebook Gen 4 (Intel N100) does the job with minimal exposure to memory pricing. For a fixed desk, the Lenovo ThinkCentre neo 50q Gen 4 (Core i5-13420H) is a tiny-form-factor desktop that pairs well with a large monitor and leaves upgrade headroom. If you are trying to equip a team while prices move week to week, request a free quote from our team and we will lock in configurations and availability rather than letting you discover them at checkout.

3. Microsoft's 974-CVE Patch Tuesday: When AI Starts Finding the Bugs

Patch management is now a capacity problem as much as a security one. Photo: FlyD / Unsplash.

On Tuesday September 8, Microsoft published the largest Patch Tuesday in the company's history: 974 CVEs addressed in a single release. The breakdown is instructive — 723 flaws in Windows, 222 in the Office suite (111 of those in Office 2016 alone), plus fixes across SQL Server (62), developer tools (22), SharePoint Server (16), Azure (12), Skype for Business (10) and Exchange Server (9). Twenty of the resolved vulnerabilities are considered wormable, meaning they permit remote code execution without authentication or user interaction — the property that turns an individual compromise into a self-propagating outbreak.

Two were already being exploited in the wild.

The two zero-days, and what they tell us

CVE-2026-85880 is a heap buffer overflow in the Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call subsystem. ALPC is the high-speed inter-process communication mechanism that Windows components use to talk to one another. A heap buffer overflow occurs when a program writes past the end of a dynamically allocated memory region; because the heap holds not just data but also allocator metadata and object pointers, a carefully shaped overflow can be steered into corrupting a pointer that the program will later follow — handing the attacker control of execution. Microsoft's advisory notes that an attacker able to execute code inside a low-privilege AppContainer can exploit this to escape the sandbox and elevate to SYSTEM, with no additional user interaction required. Researchers note this is the first ALPC flaw Microsoft has patched since April 2023.

CVE-2026-81963 is an improper link resolution before file access — a "link following" defect — in the Windows Update Stack, and it also grants local elevation to SYSTEM. The class is worth understanding because it recurs constantly. A privileged process intends to write to a specific file path. Between the moment it checks that path and the moment it actually opens it, an unprivileged attacker replaces the path component with a symbolic link or junction pointing somewhere sensitive. The privileged process then writes to the attacker's chosen target, believing it is writing to the original. This is a classic time-of-check-to-time-of-use race, and it is difficult to eliminate because the check and the use are genuinely separate operations at the filesystem level.

Neither zero-day is a remote-entry vulnerability. Both are privilege escalations, which is exactly what makes them valuable to attackers: modern intrusions are chained. Initial access comes from a phishing lure, a malicious document, or a compromised browser tab, landing the attacker in a low-privilege sandboxed context. A local elevation flaw is the bridge from that foothold to full control of the machine — and from there to credential theft and lateral movement.

Why the number exploded: AI-assisted vulnerability discovery

The most consequential detail in this month's release is not any single CVE. It is the reason there are 974 of them.

Microsoft warned customers in July to expect a surge in security updates as a result of its use of agentic AI tools to discover vulnerabilities. That warning has now materialised. Security researchers commenting on the release framed it carefully: as Tenable's Satnam Narang put it, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery in 2026 is creating larger haystacks without necessarily finding more needles. Fortra's Tyler Reguly made a complementary point — the trend is not Microsoft-specific, and it reflects vendors working through a backlog of long-standing, hard-to-find defects that older tooling never surfaced.

The mechanism is straightforward once you see it. Traditional vulnerability discovery relies on human researchers reading code, or on fuzzing — throwing malformed inputs at a program and watching for crashes. Fuzzing is effective but shallow: it struggles to reach code paths guarded by complex preconditions, because random mutation rarely produces the exact input sequence needed to get there. Large language models trained on code can reason about a program's structure and semantics, propose which paths might be reachable and under what conditions, and generate targeted inputs to test the hypothesis. They can also read a patch and infer what class of bug it fixed — which is why silent patching has become a poor defensive strategy.

The defensive implication is a genuine change in operating conditions. When a vendor releases fifty patches a month, "apply everything promptly" is a workable policy. At 974, the arithmetic breaks: testing, staging and deployment capacity does not scale with CVE count. Prioritisation becomes mandatory. The reasonable triage order is: first, anything with confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; second, wormable and unauthenticated remote code execution on internet-exposed systems; third, everything reachable in your specific configuration; and only then the long tail of flaws in components you do not run. It is worth noting that this is the same week Android's September updates addressed 180 vulnerabilities and Nvidia, AMD and Arm all issued their own advisories — the pressure is simultaneous across the stack.

What this means for the hardware you buy

The link between a record Patch Tuesday and a purchasing decision is more direct than it first appears.

Manageability is now a security control. Both September zero-days are local privilege escalations, which means the defence is patch deployment speed. Machines with vPro or equivalent out-of-band management can be inventoried, patched and — critically — remediated even when the operating system will not boot. Across a fleet of thirty machines, that capability is the difference between an afternoon and a week. The Dell Pro 16 Plus PB16250 with vPro and the HP EliteBook 840 G11 with vPro both carry it. For desktops, the HP Elite Mini 800 G9 with vPro offers the same management surface in a mini chassis.

Hardware roots of trust matter more as software attack surface grows. A TPM 2.0 module provides a tamper-resistant store for cryptographic keys and a measured-boot chain that records what firmware and bootloader code executed. It does not stop exploitation, but it makes persistence far harder: an attacker who achieves SYSTEM privileges still cannot silently modify the boot chain without producing a measurement mismatch. Enterprise-class machines such as the Dell Pro Tower Plus QBT1250 with TPM, 32 GB and a 1 TB SSD ship with this configured rather than optional.

Support lifecycle is a security specification. A machine that falls out of firmware support stops receiving microcode and UEFI updates, and firmware-level vulnerabilities cannot be patched from the operating system. When you compare a business-line laptop to a consumer model at a similar price, a substantial part of the difference is the length and reliability of that firmware support commitment. The Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 mobile workstation (i7, 16 GB, 512 GB) sits at the demanding end of that category, built for users who need certified drivers and long-horizon support alongside compute.

Do not forget the screens. Displays running Tizen, Android or webOS are networked computers with a firmware update channel, and in commercial deployments they frequently sit on the same network as everything else. Commercial-grade panels such as the Samsung 55-inch Crystal UHD Signage QBC and the Samsung QM85C 85-inch UHD professional display are built for long duty cycles with a managed firmware pipeline, which is a meaningfully different proposition from a consumer television running whatever build it shipped with. For very large rooms, the LG 86-inch commercial 4K display covers the same brief.

If you are responsible for a fleet and this month's patch volume has made that responsibility feel unmanageable, that is a reasonable reaction to an unreasonable number. We are happy to walk through device inventory, management tooling and refresh planning with you — request a free quote from our team and we will start from what you actually run.

Reading the Three Stories Together

Step back and the connective tissue becomes obvious.

Gate-all-around transistors exist because leakage was strangling scaling, and the primary beneficiary of the resulting power headroom is AI inference — note that Apple's largest claimed gains were in the GPU, the neural accelerators and memory bandwidth, not in general-purpose CPU throughput. The memory shortage exists because AI training and inference infrastructure absorbs both DRAM wafers and the advanced packaging capacity needed for HBM, leaving consumer devices competing for what remains. And the record Patch Tuesday exists in part because AI systems have been turned on the problem of finding software defects, at a rate that outpaces the human processes built to consume the results.

For a buyer in September 2026, three practical conclusions follow. Configure memory generously at purchase, because it is the component least likely to get cheaper and most likely to be impossible to change. Weight your choice toward platforms with real NPU capability and adequate memory bandwidth, because on-device inference is where the next several years of software development is heading. And treat manageability and firmware support as security specifications rather than enterprise upsells, because the volume of patches is not going back down.

Glossary of the Week

Setup at a Glance

Sources & Further Reading

Apple A20 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro: MacRumors — Apple Unveils A20 Pro as First 2nm Smartphone Chip; 9to5Mac — Apple announces A20 Pro chip with 2nm design and major performance gains; Android Headlines — Apple Enters the 2nm Era. Foldable iPhone Duo: MacRumors — Apple Announces Foldable 'iPhone Duo'. TSMC N2 and gate-all-around: Tom's Hardware — TSMC begins volume production of 2nm-class chips; TechSpot — TSMC's 2nm N2 process officially enters volume production; TSMC — 2nm Technology.

Memory shortage and pricing: TechInsights — Why the AI Memory Shortage Could Keep DRAM and NAND Prices High for Years; J.P. Morgan Global Research — The AI-Driven Memory Shortage; IDC — Global Memory Shortage Crisis; Avnet — Navigating the 2026 Memory & Storage Market.

Microsoft September 2026 Patch Tuesday: SecurityWeek — Microsoft Patches Record 974 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days; The Hacker News — Microsoft Patches Record 974 Flaws; Infosecurity Magazine — Microsoft Shatters Patch Tuesday Record; Microsoft MSRC — September 2026 release notes. Related security coverage: SecurityWeek — Android's September 2026 Updates Patch 180 Vulnerabilities; SecurityWeek — Chipmaker Patch Tuesday.

Industry context: Tech Startups — Top Tech News Today, September 10, 2026; CNBC — Meta to put AI chip into production in September; Android Headlines — TECNO bezelless concept phone and MEGABOOK laptops at IFA 2026; IFA Berlin 2026.

Photos: Unsplash (free commercial license) — Laura Ockel, Liam Briese, FlyD.

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