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Apple Scrambling to Secure Memory Ahead of iPhone 18 Pro Launch

Thursday August 6, 2026 6:22 am PDT by
Apple and its manufacturing partners are racing to secure enough mobile DRAM to complete production of the iPhone 18 Pro and its first foldable iPhone, with around $1 billion worth of unpackaged processors reportedly sitting idle as they wait on memory chips, according to semiconductor analyst Tim Culpan. With less than six weeks until the expected debut of the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ and the first...
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New MacBook Neo With A19 Pro Chip and 12GB RAM Expected Next Year

Tuesday April 7, 2026 8:50 am PDT by
Apple is planning to release a new MacBook Neo next year, according to Taiwan-based tech columnist and former Bloomberg reporter Tim Culpan. In the latest edition of his Culpium newsletter today, Culpan said the new MacBook Neo will be equipped with a version of the A19 Pro chip from the iPhone 17 Pro models. This means the next edition of the laptop should have an increased 12GB of RAM, as...
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Apple is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' With the MacBook Neo

Tuesday April 7, 2026 7:56 am PDT by
The all-new MacBook Neo has been such a hit that Apple is facing a "massive dilemma," according to Taiwan-based tech columnist and former Bloomberg reporter Tim Culpan. In the iPhone 16 Pro models, the A18 Pro chip has a 6-core GPU. During the chip manufacturing process, however, sometimes a CPU or GPU core can turn out to be faulty. Rather than discarding the leftover A18 Pro chips with...