From factories to consumers: Samsung’s long retreat from China enters its final chapters

Samsung Electronics’ latest move to scale back its smartphone retail network in China marks another milestone in a years-long restructuring. The shift has steadily reduced the company’s footprint across manufacturing and consumer businesses, highlighting how changing market dynamics have reshaped the Korean technology giant’s China strategy.

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From chip to grid: OCP CEO George Tchaparian on redefining data center architecture for the AI era

Ahead of the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei, George Tchaparian says co-packaged optics (CPO) gives Taiwan an opportunity to turn its manufacturing and packaging expertise into global standards leadership. He also warns that proprietary management interfaces are delaying AI infrastructure deployment and leaving a meaningful share of large GPU fleets in a degraded state.

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Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDPR is a 500Hz Tandem QD-OLED gaming monitor

The Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDPR is a brand-new Tandem QD-OLED gaming monitor. Its name differs only by a letter from the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDP – a 2024 WOLED gaming monitor. However, the two models are quite different. The main difference is the display panel – the older model uses a 26.5-inch QHD WOLED screen, while the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDPR is built around a 26.5-inch QHD…

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Nvidia RTX 50 graphics card prices climb as TSMC and memory costs rise

Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series graphics card prices in South Korea were set to rise by as much as 30% starting in August 2026 as higher wafer costs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and continued increases in GDDR7 memory prices pushed up supply-chain expenses. The increase was reported by Tom’s Hardware, citing South Korean media outlet ZDNet Korea and industry sources.

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