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Micron reports surging revenue and raises guidance on memory demand while Qualcomm lifts its full-year revenue forecast to $40 billion. Additional moves include multiple startup funding rounds and market rebounds in tech shares.

Meta invests $900M in CRED at $4.5B valuation with Shah heading WhatsApp; launches new Meta Glasses starting at $299; Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs and Lazada trims 5% SEA staff amid restructurings.

Valve unveils Steam Machine hardware pricing starting at $1,049 with reservations; Oracle discloses 21,000 job cuts in annual filing; SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea's top company by market cap. Also covers Bending Spoons IPO plans, Broadcom financing, and space/hardware funding rounds.

Covers Andera's $37M Series A, Katalyst Space's $12M round, Tower-Marvell's 5M IC shipments, Apple-Intel US manufacturing pact, Conduct's $60M raise, GATE Space's €6.3M, France's €13B tech push, Fundstreet's $45.5M note, Architect Labs' $24M seed, and 11 other funding or hardware updates from the period.

Snap launches $2,195 Specs AR glasses with fall shipments; Asensus Surgical cuts 108 jobs in robotics restructuring; EigenQ agrees to $3B SPAC merger while Go completes Tokyo IPO and other SPAC activity unfolds.

Eclipse raises $23M Series A for battery storage expansion. Flutterwave hits $3.25B valuation in funding round. Apple confirms product price increases due to memory chip shortages. Expeditors and BBC announce job cuts.

Coherent lands $50M CHIPS support for Texas chip plant expansion; Robinhood trims 10% staff in restructuring; Phoenix Tailings secures $500M Pentagon loan for rare earth facility. Plus startup rounds, secondary offerings, and hardware updates.

Fox acquires Roku in $22 billion deal; DOJ clears Paramount's $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition; BBC News faces hundreds of job cuts in £500 million savings push. Other stories include small hardware and startup funding rounds plus device advancements.

Covers Clip's $500M funding and $2.5B+ valuation, Fortify's $2.5M 3D printing round, multiple tech layoffs and restructurings at Salesforce and ServiceNow, Adtran and euNetworks hardware launches, and other startup funding, M&A, and gadget/software releases from June 12-14.

Covers Theker's $85M Series A for generalist factory robots, GMEX Robotics sensor mount debut, Pelican Acquisition II $75M tech SPAC filing, JAB Acquisition Corp IPO close, and additional hardware, funding, and strategy moves.

Covers TDK's Fabric8Labs acquisition, major layoffs at Intuit and Wix, robotics funding at Standard Bots, chip manufacturing updates from Infineon and Texas Instruments, plus smaller funding rounds and IPO activity.

Covers Super Micro Computer's $7 billion equity financing for server hardware production, Zepto's IPO filing targeting up to $837 million raise, Helion's $465 million round at $15.5 billion valuation for fusion manufacturing, plus layoffs at Wix and Google Cloud and hardware moves in chips and drones.

Iceye hits €10B+ valuation with major funding; NewOrbit secures $18.5M for VLEO satellites; Powerex gets $30M CHIPS for semiconductor manufacturing; plus small seed rounds, Google Cloud restructuring, and Apple software updates.

Covers Apex satellite funding doubling to $2.3B valuation, GM's $900M EV battery push, Supabase $500M raise at $10.5B valuation, Volund manufacturing seed, Helion fusion round, chip stock selloff, and other funding, hardware, and strategy moves from the period.

Ramp hits $44B valuation with $750M round; USA Rare Earth secures up to $1.6B CHIPS funding for supply chain; tech layoffs hit 38k in May; COMPUTEX brings AMD, Intel, Qualcomm hardware announcements.

FirstClub doubles valuation with $55M round; GitLab slashes 350 jobs in restructuring; Impulse Space closes $500M Series D at over $4B valuation. Also covers Strava IPO prep moves, big tech capital raises, and other startup fundings and headcount changes.

Apple readies iOS 27 receipt-photo bill splitter; xLight lands $150M CHIPS for EUV laser prototype; Scapia closes $63M round; NewLimit raises $435M Series C; Meta expands global teen safety settings; Taiwan demos robot patrol dogs; Endorfy previews PC hardware; Valve delays Steam Machine over RAM issues.

Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation with $300M round; Unastella closes $24M Series B for rockets; Maxwell Power secures $750M for batteries plus other funding, M&A and hardware moves.

Covers Dell's $699 XPS 13 and Acer's $699 Swift Air 14 launches, Qualcomm Snapdragon C chip announcement, Picogrid's $45M round, SoftBank's €75B French data centers, and other hardware and funding news from May 29-31.

MiRus lands $1.5B from Boston Scientific for medical devices. Wix cuts 1,000 jobs or 20% of staff. Groupon trims 400 positions or 23% workforce. Plus FDA clearances, manufacturing orders and other hardware and restructuring moves.

Covers Stord's $250M Series F at $3B valuation for logistics tech, Thea Energy's $100M Series B to expand magnet manufacturing for fusion plants, ClearNote Health's $52M Series D for cancer detection products, Lilly's $780M LimmaTech acquisition, and Micron and SK Hynix hitting $1T market caps.

Micron hits $1 trillion market cap amid chip rally; FortuneX and Burtech close SPAC IPOs; Hadron Energy de-SPACs; Valve ships Steam Deck beta update; Philips launches SmartIQ imaging tech; Oregon colleges secure semiconductor grants.

ClickUp lays off 22% of its workforce; Huawei unveils Tau Scaling Law targeting 1.4nm-equivalent chips by 2031; Amca raises $300M for aerospace parts and Boston Metal secures $75M for metals production among major funding rounds totaling over $2B.

Covers Oura's confidential IPO filing for its smart ring, Yamaha Motor's new robotics support facility in India, SolarSquare's up to $60M funding talks in solar hardware, Meta's quiet Forum app launch, Xreal smartglasses progress, and 15 other funding, hardware, gadget, and strategy stories from the period.

Covers Commerce's $2B quantum hardware incentives, three SPAC IPOs raising $325M, Hesai's European LiDAR deals, UCLA's $125M semiconductor hub, Bloom Energy surge, multiple startup rounds including Pivot and Socket, China robotics push, and other hardware and M&A moves.