DigiTimes reports industry insiders say Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron have sold all DRAM and HBM capacity for 2027, driven by AI demand and long‑term agreements. DRAM for PCs, laptops, and smartphones will be much tighter in 2027, and NAND supply is limited but may be fully booked by end of August 2026.

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person with knowledge of the deal.

A ‌deal of that size would mark one of Nvidia's largest acquisitions to date and underscore how the Jensen Huang-led company at the center of the AI boom is betting that demand for the technology is expanding rather than peaking.

It would also give Nvidia control of Hugging Face - which ⁠hosts open-source large language models and datasets - at a time when builders of closed-source models such as Anthropic and OpenAI are seeking to create their own chips as an alternative to Nvidia's graphics processing units.

The price tag would also stand in steep contrast to its annualized revenue of $150 million reported by The Information earlier this week.

The chipmaker and New York-based Hugging Face did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment outside regular business hours.

Nvidia was among companies such as ‌Salesforce ⁠and Alphabet's Google that backed Hugging Face in a $235 million funding round in 2023, valuing the company at $4.5 billion. Nvidia has also invested billions of dollars across the AI ecosystem since then, backing AI developers such as OpenAI.

In January, the Financial Times reported that Hugging ⁠Face rejected a $500 million investment offer from Nvidia last year that would have valued it at $7 billion.

Nvidia's bet on strong AI demand was highlighted on Wednesday when it forecast a ⁠70% jump in revenue next fiscal year. It also said it has $18 billion committed to equity investments through fiscal year 2027.

The report also comes a ⁠month after Hugging Face was hit by a security incident when an OpenAI model went rogue and triggered a hack that compromised Hugging Face infrastructure.

The Chinese hardware reviewer released a video revealing that mobile phone manufacturers have cheated in gaming performance reviews of their phones by doing a few things:

1. Sending specially selected review units which contain "Golden" chips to reviewers. These chips are able to achieve higher gaming performance (6-8%) and lower power usage than the average retail unit, usually a watt lower (20%).
2. Certain review models from Xiaomi force VRS (Variable Rate Shading) on out-of-box to boost gaming benchmarks with no option to turn it off.
3. iPhones are one of the few models with no observable cheating. iPhone retail units in fact performed better than review units in gaming due to operating system updates.

The video in question has been wiped from all Chinese media platforms, including from cloud storages and backups done by other people. Other content creators reacting to the incident had their react videos taken offline by the platforms too. It is very likely that a state level censorship is underway to protect Chinese phone manufacturers.

The video on Geekerwan's youtube channel has been set to private, possibly under pressure from powers from above. He has given permission to anyone who would like to backup or share the video in question.

Source explaining the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfPgQL5RvjU

Backup of the censored video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUNXofYAfY (backup of the video and youtube comments)

Battlefield 6 reportedly has impressive performance on both PC and console. The studio is targetting 60 FPS on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S by default while PC gets to enjoy an uncapped frame rate. New reports even suggest 300+ FPS at 1440p, on a 9800X3D paired with an RTX 5080, without upscaling.