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• Smartphone shipments fell 20% to a 14-year Q3 low; Apple's share rose to 22%
• Apple's $299 Apple TV 4K ships Nov. 13; 2021 models get Siri AI as a beta
• Google's Gemini 4 Argon costs $2 per million input tokens, until prices double in November
• Microsoft's Maia 300: 96 chips per rack, 40% more tokens per megawatt than GPUs
• Microsoft's Maia 300: 40% more tokens per megawatt, but not until 2027

Smartphone shipments fell 20% to a 14-year Q3 low; Apple's share rose to 22%

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Global smartphone shipments fell 20 percent year over year in the third quarter, the lowest Q3 total since 2012, according to Counterpoint Research.

Apple's $299 Apple TV 4K ships Nov. 13; 2021 models get Siri AI as a beta

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Apple on Oct. 13 introduced a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K at $299 with an A19 chip, three far-field microphones and a remote that has a built-in speaker.

Google's Gemini 4 Argon costs $2 per million input tokens, until prices double in November

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Google released Gemini 4 Argon on Oct. 13 at an introductory $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

Microsoft's Maia 300: 96 chips per rack, 40% more tokens per megawatt than GPUs

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Microsoft's Maia 300 packs 96 chips into each data center rack, double the Maia 200's count, and Microsoft says a rack can process up to seven times more AI tokens than its

Microsoft's Maia 300: 40% more tokens per megawatt, but not until 2027

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Microsoft said Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI chip, will deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems, per cloud chief Scott Guthrie.

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