Acer (Vendor): news timeline & CVEs

Acer CEO says memory makers are hyping 2030 shortage fears to protect margins

Acer's CEO says memory makers are exaggerating a shortage through 2030 to protect margins, expecting PC prices to fall after 2027.

Acer chairperson and CEO Jason Chen told DigiTimes he expects component prices to start reversing in the second half of 2027. He said only high-end DDR5 parts such as LPDDR5X-9600 and niche CPUs, including Nvidia’s N1 and N1X, are in short supply. PC prices may still rise 5% to 20% by the end of 2026, plateau in the first half of 2027, then decline. That contrasts with SK hynix and Adata warnings of DRAM shortages lasting until 2030 or longer, after memory prices climbed about 500% in 12 months amid AI demand.

Hacker News · securitySep 23, 04:00 UTC · 4d agoOther HN 20↑ · 3 comments

VU#738147: Vendor-signed UEFI Shell applications allow Secure Boot bypass

CERT warns vendor-signed UEFI shells from Acer, Dell, and others can bypass Secure Boot.

CERT/CC VU#738147 says vendor-signed UEFI Shell applications that expose commands such as mm and dmpstore can modify protected pre-boot memory and run untrusted UEFI code when Secure Boot trusts the vendor certificate or Authenticode hash. Binarly and Eclypsium identified affected shells distributed by Acer, Dell, Eurosoft, and Framework, and the note publishes Authenticode and file hashes. Administrators are told to install firmware updates and add the binaries to vendor DBX revocation lists. The note does not report confirmed exploitation.

CERT/CC Vulnerability NotesSep 22, 18:13 UTC · 4d agoVulnerability

Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini

Google opened $899 Googlebook pre-orders, pitching an Android laptop built around Gemini with an October launch.

Google opened pre-orders for Googlebook, an $899 Android laptop positioned above Chromebooks and built to surface Gemini on the device. Features include Magic Cursor, Rambler dictation cleanup, vibe-coded widgets, Gemini Spark, and Gemini Live, plus 12 months of Google AI Pro. Flagship units from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo use Intel or Qualcomm processors with NPUs, up to 2.8K OLED displays, and up to 14 hours of battery, with updates promised for up to 10 years. US retail starts October 4, with Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, and Australia following on October 5.

TechCrunch · AISep 21, 14:39 UTC · 5d agoAI industry

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

NVIDIA announces local AI push at IFA 2026 with faster llama.cpp/vLLM inference, PAIR routing tool, and October RTX Spark PCs.

At IFA 2026, NVIDIA announced simplified local AI support for agents in Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, and Perplexity Portable Computer, plus new llama.cpp and vLLM optimizations delivering up to 1.9x faster local inference. NVIDIA also unveiled PAIR, a Personal AI Router for distributing inference across a local network's PCs, and compact RTX Spark Windows PCs from Lenovo and Acer arriving in October. The post recaps recent local-capable model releases including Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B), Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek v4 Flash (284B MoE, 13B active), Meta Muse Glimmer (30B), Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash, LTX 2.5, and MiniMax-H3 with the FastH3 distilled variant.

NVIDIA BlogSep 3, 16:00 UTC · 23d agoAI industry1

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Acer CEO says memory makers are hyping 2030 shortage fears to protect margins

VU#738147: Vendor-signed UEFI Shell applications allow Secure Boot bypass

Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026