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SK Chairman Warns Global Memory Crunch May Last Until 2030 SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won warned that the global high-bandwidth memory crunch, driven by AI data center buildouts, will last until the end of the decade. Chey told reporters on the sidelines of Nvidia's annual developer conference, 'GTC 2026,' at the San Jose Convention Center in California on Monday that the memory chip shortage could last another four to five years, with supply unlikely to catch up to demand until 2030. He explained, "The supply shortage problem stems from a wafer shortage,...

The Fourth Turning Is Here: The Old Order Is Breaking Down Authored by Chris MacIntosh via InternationalMan.com, In 1997, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published “The Fourth Turning,” a cyclical theory of Anglo-American history built around generational archetypes and recurring saecular rhythms of approximately 80 to 100 years — roughly the length of a long human life. Their framework identified four “turnings,” each lasting roughly 20 to 25 years, that repeat in sequence. The First Turning, the High, is an era of institutional confidence and community solidarity following a great crisis. The rules...

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened on Wednesday that Israel could launch a “pre-emptive” attack on Iran for the third time, as Israeli officials continue to make clear they’re eager for the full-scale US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic to restart. Speaking at a memorial for Israelis killed in the 2006 Lebanon war, Katz said […]