Bandai Namco has presented its financial results and there is an anime that has given them more money than ‘One Piece’ and ‘Dragon Ball’

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Neither ‘Dragon Ball’ nor ‘One Piece’. The anime that has given the most money to Bandai Namco in its last fiscal year will be a whopping 47 years old in 2026, and it is not associated with fantastic adventures for all audiences, but with plastic models that have little to do with pirate ships and the nonsense of the Monkey King. In fact, for a time it was considered a mere niche for collectors. The annual results that the company made public on May 13 reveal a figure that rearranges the ranking in a surprising way. The top. ‘dragon ball‘ and ‘One Piece‘are the most commercial franchises in Japanese entertainment; an idea that seems to have settled in the heads of fans with implacable firmness. However, the Bandai Namco’s latest financial results They deny it: ‘Mobile Suit Gundam‘ is the company’s most profitable intellectual property, with 254.3 billion yen in total group sales. ‘One Piece’ registered 139.3 billion and ‘Dragon Ball’, 138.0 billion. That is, there is a distance of 115 billion yen between Gundam and its most direct competitor in Bandai Namco, a figure that is approximately equivalent to 730 million euros. The nuance. Important and significant: Bandai owns ‘Gundam’ directly. ‘Dragon Ball’, ‘One Piece’ or ‘Naruto’, on the other hand, are intellectual properties that the company exploits under license: the complete rights belong to their authors, publishers and studios. Therefore, although the benefits for Bandai Namco from the licenses are astronomical, they do not fall one hundred percent on the company, as is the case to a greater extent with ‘Gundam’. That is, we do not have to read this Bandai ranking as an absolute list of global popularity. What is this due to? surprise? In 2022 Bandai Namco released ‘Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury’ (you can watch it on Crunchyroll), first ‘Gundam’ with a female protagonist. As confirmed then by the president of Bandai, Masaru Kawaguchi, the gunpla (name given to the models of the series) of the Gundam Aerial broke the initial sales record in the history of the franchise. Fiscal year 2023 ended that year with 131.3 billion yen for ‘Gundam’, the highest historical figure up to that time. SEED arrives. The next step was ‘Gundam SEED Freedom’ in 2024: film-sequel to a cult 2002 series of the franchise. You can see it on Netflix (and the series on Crunchyroll), and grossed 5.38 billion yen at the Japanese box office, becoming the franchise’s most popular film in its more than four-decade history. The 2025 financial year closed with ‘Gundam’ earning 153.5 billion yen, still below ‘Dragon Ball’ that year but already establishing the trend. The trigger: ‘GQuuuuuuX’. The final leap came with ‘Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX’. The bizarrely named series was co-produced by Sunrise (the historical studio of ‘Gundam’) and Khara, the studio of Hideaki Anno who made ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’, and which made a previous film version on January 17, 2025. Result:more than 3 billion yen at the box office and 1.8 million viewersthe second highest-grossing film in the history of the franchise, only surpassed by the aforementioned ‘SEED Freedom’. The world premiere of the series on Prime Video definitely impacted the numbers: only in the first quarter of fiscal year 2o25 ‘Gundam’ creceived 81.2% compared to the same period of the previous year. The power of synergy. Unlike other companies like Disney, which usually focus on a main launch (series, movie) around which secondary businesses sprout (merchandisingvideo games), Bandai Namco has been applying for years what they themselves call “IP synergy”: a model that coordinates releases of anime, video games, merchandisingphysical events, collectible cards, all supported with the same strength. ‘Gundam’ is the latest and most perfect example of that strategy. In this way, for example, in fiscal year 2026 the ‘GQuuuuuuX’ series, the expansion of the model lines, Premium Bandai launches and the Gundam Next Future Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka World Expo, an event for which Bandai is responsible for much of the growth. Bandai Namco believes that its toy and model arm, which has grown 12.9%, is the leader of all the company’s business segments. Another primary difference with the company’s North American and European counterparts. In Xataka | The 26 best anime of all time and where to watch them

What they are, what frauds can reach you from unknown numbers and what you can do about it

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Let’s explain to you What it is and what you can do about spam on WhatsAppdifferent types of fraudulent advertising and scams that can reach you from unknown numbers through this application. So, if we didn’t have enough with SMS spam, now it seems that it is also happening in this other application. This is a growing trendand we are going to start by telling you how this type of fraudulent messages work, so that you know the way of those who use them to send you spam or even online scams to steal your data. Then, we will tell you how you can try to combat these types of messages. How this type of messages works We have already become accustomed to receiving spam calls of various types, especially fraudulent calls. Obviously, our emails are also full of fraudulent messages, and it is common for there to be SMS fishing campaigns. Now, there is a new trend that is that these fraudulent messages reach us through WhatsApp. It is about messages we receive from unknown numbers. These messages have everything from fake job offers to fake messages from your supposed bank, to supposed family members with financial problems and more. The attackers’ idea is to communicate by an app that we consider something more personal like WhatsApp, and play with our feeling that if it is a message through this application it must be from someone who knows us. This greater credibility that we give to WhatsApp messages is what scammers use to try to make us fall into their traps. And how do they get our WhatsApp? Well, it’s simple, every year there are many massive leaks of service data, and these may include our phone number. They can also directly buy it from those typical half-unknown websites where you can register and give your number, and then they do business with their users’ data. Once scammers obtain phone numbers of hundreds of people, they begin to send massive WhatsApps. Same as SMS spam, but within the WhatsApp app, because your account there is linked to your phone number. What can you do about it? The best advice we can give you is do not give away your data happily to any application or web page. It is very tempting to register on unknown pages or applications that we come across from time to time, and also others where they may be doing a promotion or giveaway. Here, note that the more services you put your data into The more likely it is that these will end up being used for bad purposes. Therefore, try to reduce this habit of registering to sites as much as possible, and use common sense when registering on pages or applications, especially those less known. It is true that possibly by the time you read this you will have already registered on several sites, but that does not mean that you cannot try to decide to start taking better care of your data from now on. And for when data and account leaks are unintentional, I recommend that you change your passwords periodically. Thus, if your username and password are leaked from a web page, it will be easier for them to not be able to enter it and obtain other personal information about you or steal your account. And finally, the most important thing: never trust a WhatsApp that comes to you from an unknown number. Treat these messages like SMS or emails, never trust them because if a company does it, it is possibly a scam, and if it is someone who claims to be a person who knows you, try to ask them questions about various things that only you and that person can know.

TSMC is focusing on the lucrative AI industry, so Apple is looking for a new girlfriend. Found it at Intel

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In 2023, Apple completed its transition and made all Macs in its catalog work with its Apple M-series chips. It was the end of a relationship that began in 2005, when Steve Jobs announced the transition from IBM PowerPCs to Intel chips. Then things went wrong and Apple ended up separating itself from Intel in its products, but once again there has been an interesting twist of the events. Intel does not know how to be a foundry. The integration of the Apple M1 in 2020 was the real beginning of a logical strategy: Apple wanted to design its own chips for its Macs as it had already done in its iPhone or iPad, and the result was extraordinary. The curious thing is that Apple negotiated with Intel to manufacture the iPhone chips, but Intel rejected the opportunity. When Morris Chang, founder of TSMC, asked Cook why he hadn’t chosen Intel to make those chips, responded “Intel just doesn’t know how to be a foundry (chip factory)”. TSMC turns to AI. The relationship between Apple and TSMC has been one of the most important in the semiconductor industry. TSMC makes virtually all of Apple’s advanced chips, from iPhone processors to Mac M chips. That dependence, however, has become uncomfortable for two reasons: Chip shortage: The rise of AI has made the demand for this type of chips extraordinary. TSMC is prioritizing customers with the highest volume and margin in the most advanced nodes, and there Apple competes with NvidiaAMD and other manufacturers looking for 2 and 3 nm chips. Geopolitics: 90% of the world’s advanced chip production is in Taiwanand any escalation of existing tensions with China could paralyze the supply chains of Apple and the vast majority of technology firms on the planet. Diversifying manufacturers is therefore a strategic necessity. Intel gets interesting. It is true that Intel is not the only alternative that Apple was exploring, and Samsung was another candidate to work closely with the Cupertino firm. However Intel has a first important advantage with the 18A nodeits next-generation manufacturing process that experts consider comparable to TSMC’s 2nm process. Apple has been considering this node for entry-level M chips for months. Intel will not be manufacturing Apple’s most advanced chips at the moment, but this is a potential first step so that it can be verified that Intel can indeed accomplish the task and then also manufacture its most ambitious designs. Lip-Bu Tan turns the tables. Intel’s new CEO took over in early 2025and since then the company has taken promising steps when it was in a situation really worrying. has reached agreements with Nvidia to develop x86 chip sets with RTX graphics, for example. It also collaborates with Tesla to manufacture chips with an even more advanced node14A, for Elon Musk’s future TeraFab. Preliminary agreement. Official details of the deal are not yet known, but in The Wall Street Journal they claim that said agreement exists although it describes it as preliminary. It is not currently clear which chip or chips Intel will manufacture or in which photolithographic process. It is expected that the 18A node will be used for those entry-level M chips, but it is not ruled out that the 14A will not be part of this new commercial relationship. Be that as it may, if the agreement is closed as it seems, we would be facing a definitive boost to this new strategy of foundry traditional approach—manufacturing chips for third parties—that Intel is adopting. The circle closes. Intel lost the contract for iPhone chips because it refused to manufacture them for not having enough marginand thus passed up the opportunity to be a de facto partner in probably the most lucrative product in the history of technology. He then tried correct the errorbut he didn’t succeed. Then Intel would lose the Mac chip business, which would be another major setback. Now it seems to be taking flight again, and its promising future—along with other factors—have made Apple want to work with it again. It seems that Intel, after all, is learning to be a foundry. Image | Fortune CEO Initiative In Xataka | The US’s problem in the AI ​​and humanoid race is not China: it is all of Asia and it is greatly disadvantaged

I have tested the Logi Dock, the combination of USB-C hub, speaker and microphone for video calls. It’s a sum that makes a lot of sense.

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I have been working from home for nine years. It wasn’t long ago that I realized that my laptop, a 2021 MacBook Prois the answer to a question that no one has ever asked me: “what do you want, power or flexibility?”. I answered flexibility, but I didn’t know until it was too late. The MacBook Pro is always on the table, but sometimes it also travels or I take it to the cafeteria when my head demands a different environment. It is a desktop computer that from time to time has to go outside. Logitech, who knows a lot about peripherals and how we work, has understood this very well. The Logi Dock is not just a hub of ports to compensate for the fact that recent laptops are not as generous in ports. It is a value proposition that goes beyond: it is an operations center that stays on the desktop while the laptop comes and goes. One USB-C cable to connect everything when you arrive, one to disconnect everything when you leave. That, in practice, has a higher value than what appears on a specification paper. Behind the dock there…: HDMI 2.0 (4K, 60Hz, HDR). DisplayPort 1.4 (4K, 60Hz, HDR). 2 USB-A (USB 3.1 at 5 Gbps). 2 USB-C (USB 3.1 at 5 Gbps) 1 extra USB-C on the side with 7.5W fast charging. and USB-C upstream dedicated to 100W for the laptop. All in a single connection strip that you never touch again. What it does not have is Thunderbolt, Ethernet or card reader. View of the ports of the Logi Dock. A side USB-C is missing, designed primarily for charging the mobile phone. Image: Xataka. There’s that USB-C on the side. Image: Xataka. Immediately the most important question about this product appears, which deserves a completely honest answer. A hub USB-C generic costs between 30 and 80 euros. This dock right now it costs from 276 euros on Amazon. What justifies paying five or ten times more for the Logi Dock than for a simple hub USB-C? That’s the gist. The short answer is that it depends on whether you need what’s extra, not whether you appreciate what’s equal. Ports are ports. What sets the Logi Dock apart from any other hub random are two things: the speakers and the microphone. And that changes the equation… for a specific user profile. In my case, I have had it connected to the MacBook Pro M1 Pro and the Huawei MateView 28 inches. Keyboard, mouse, Scarlett 2i2 interface with the Rode PodMic for the podcastand charging the laptop at 100W. A cable from the Mac to dock. Everything resolved. I start with what does not have a hub anyone and it does have the Logi Dock: the speakers. My Huawei monitor has a built-in speaker that does the bare minimum. And those on the MacBook, which stays closed to one side, are “trapped.” With a hub Generic would have solved the connectivity, but not the audio: the Logi Dock provides good speakers and a microphone designed to not sound boring during video calls. The buttons are designed to be used as quick access during video calls, and also to join them directly with Logi Tune. Image: Xataka. Image: Xataka. The Logi Dock’s 55mm drivers with their side-mounted passive radiators produce full-bodied sound, some bass, and enough clarity to listen to music while working. It is not an audio monitor. But it doesn’t pretend to be either. In the video calls in which I have used them, giving up the headphones, the microphone beamforming six capsules works well. My interlocutors do not complain and background noise is reasonably attenuated. The real argument for the Logi Dock is not that it is the best at anything, but that He’s good enough at everything at once. The texture of the fabric mesh, in macro photo. Image: Xataka. Three months of use have also shown me where it is weak. No Thunderbolt, no Ethernet, no card reader… The touch buttons on the top panel work fine, but calendar integration via Logi Tune is the most dispensable part: with the Mac you already have your notifications, and join a meeting with a tap on the dock It is a shortcut that in practice you almost never use. It sounds like a function forced in to reinforce its proposal and better justify its existence. In my opinion that value is not there. What you do use, every day, is the most difficult to quantify: the absence of friction. He dock It’s been plugged in for months and has never given me a single problem. does not ask drivers to reinstall or annoying updates, the ports work well and there is no audio that is lost when waking the Mac from sleep. Is it worth paying five times more than a hub generic? If your desktop already has good speakers and a microphone, or if you simply prefer using headphones, probably not. Buy the hub cheap and you will save. But if in your case the Logi Dock becomes the only real speaker on the desk, the microphone in meetings and the only cable that connects and disconnects the laptop every day, then the comparison is no longer with a hub of 60 euros. It is with “a hub “more speakers, more microphone, plus the convenience of everything coexisting without conflict in a single block.” And that last comparison is won by the Logi. Featured image | Xataka In Xataka | The Nike Mind 001 are the strangest shoes I have ever tried. And that is precisely why they are being sold This device has been provided for testing by Logitech. You can consult how we do reviews in Xataka and our relations policy with companies.

has ended with closed stores, fights and tear gas

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In 2026 it is no longer strange see long lines of people who spend the night outside the stores of a certain brand waiting for the launch of one of their products. What is not so common is to see them at the doors of a youth watch store to a watch that costs 400 euros. Triple that of the average of their watches. The launch that occurred this weekend was not just any launch, what all that people who were waiting patiently at the doors of the shops I longed for the Swatch Royal Popa watch that emerged from the alliance between Swatch and Audemars Piguet, a Swiss firm whose royal oak from which this model is inspired, starts at 20,000 euros. Such a fuss has been made to achieve this, that even the police have had to use tear gas in some stores. Luxury watchmaking for generation Z Swatch has been partnering with luxury Swiss watch brands for years to bring haute horlogerie to a generation Z more familiar with smartwatches than with traditional mechanical watches. From there collaborations such as the MoonSwatch with Omega in 2022, with Blancpain and now with the prestigious Swiss manufacturer Audemars Piguet. According to published the medium of fashion and trends #Legendthe MoonSwatch series created by Omega for Swatch sold more than one million units in its first year and generated around $275 million in revenue. Given such success, the Swiss brand wanted to replicate the recipe with the Royal Pop by Audemars Piguetand get a “luxury” watch adapted to the taste of generation Z. The Royal Pop transfers that haute horlogerie aesthetic to eight pocket models with Swatch’s characteristic colors, at a price between 385 and 400 euros. A seemingly simple and affordable proposal to wear a luxury piece on your wrist that, however, has exceeded the capacity of Swatch stores from all over the world, to the point that the brand had to make a call for calm from their social networks. MoonSwatch with developed by Swatch and Omega Going for a 400 euro watch that already costs 2,500 on Wallapop The collection was put on sale with a restriction of one watch per person per day. That limitation, far from slowing down demand, triggered it. In Barcelona, ​​hundreds of people had been camping for days in front of the store and the Mossos d’Esquadra they had to intervene and order the closure of the premises. In Paris, the police used tear gas to control about 300 people, and in Milan there were fights between clients and security. The local press from Seville said that long queues also formed in the center of the city. According what was published by The Wall Street Journal, Most stores sold out in a matter of minutes and Swatch preemptively closed stores in the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe. A few hours after the launch, Royal Pop was already appeared on Wallapop for a resale price of between 600 and 2,500 euros, and on eBay some pieces were ordered for 17,000 euros. The dynamics of this second hand massive sale has been identical to that of the launches of limited edition sneakers or other exclusive products: buyers with knowledge of the market grabbed the first places in the queue days before their launch and bought and resold immediately, taking advantage of the shortage in the first units. According to collected Reason Whysome of those who were legitimately interested in the watch complained about the way in which Swatch had organized the launch: “What happened in the stores in Madrid is a shame. Zero security control, mafias sneaking people by the dozens into the first positions and zero concern for those truly interested in the watch and not in resale. It’s time to sell the collection and never touch a Swatch again,” declared one of the people waiting in line at a store in the capital. A success as a product, a failure as a brand The Royal Pop chaos is a case of success and failure at the same time. If you look up the definition of “dying successful” in a dictionary, a Swatch logo will appear. The collection created together with Audemars Piguet has been a resounding success and shows that Swatch’s recipe to try to attract generation Z to the world of luxury watchmaking is the right one. As and as they point out in Marketing InteractiveWith this strategy, both brands win because Swatch ensures large sales in the present, while Audemars Piguet positions itself as an aspirational brand for a new generation of potential. buyers in the future. The problem is that the management at the Swatch points of sale has been a disaster lacking any foresight, to the point of requiring the intervention of the police to avoid greater evils. This lack of foresight in such a strategic launch makes the customer feel reluctant to participate in the next campaign because they do not want to have to spend days camped in front of the store to get their unit, even more so when the product is targeted to an audience who, in the near future, aspires to wear an Omega, Audemars Piguet or Blancpain watch on his wrist. In Xataka | Some OT contestants did not know how to read a clock hands. Science has clues as to why it is becoming more common Image | Swatch

The Tartessian civilization is one of the great enigmas of the peninsula. Now he is revealing himself from a town in Badajoz

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Guareña is a town in Vegas Altas del Guadiana, Badajoz, with just over 6,600 inhabitants. Historians have long known that there, not far from the mouth of the Burdalo Riverit hides an archaeological sitebut its scope was not clear until just over a decade ago. After a first survey, in 2014researchers began to recover pieces and unearth structures that 12 years later have become a fascinating window to one of the most enigmatic peoples who inhabited the southwest of the peninsula: the Tartessians. Since then they have not stopped exploring the deposit (known as Casas de Turuñuelo) in search of treasures like the one that has just surfaced now, during its eighth campaign. What has happened? That we just found a new test (the umpteenth) of the enormous archaeological wealth of Turuñuelo Housesthe Tartessian site located in Guareña, province of Badajoz. Although the eighth exploration campaign started in late April and will not be completed until the end of May, the researchers have found a discovery that has captured the interest of media such as RTVE or Extremadura Channel. In recent days, both media have reported on the discovery of an altar in the shape of a bull’s skin, a characteristic piece of the Tartessian culture that joins another of the same style located during a previous excavation. The structure appeared in a hallway attached to what is known as ‘room 100’ of the site. When analyzing it in detail, the researchers verified that it still has remains of ashes from the sacrificed animals on it. Why is it important? For several reasons. One, it allows us to better understand how the Casas del Turuñuelo site was structured. Two, it confirms its enormous archaeological wealth and (most importantly) its usefulness for knowing the tartessiansthe civilization that prospered in the surroundings of what are now the provinces of Huelva, Seville, Cádiz and Badajoz between approximately the 9th and 5th centuries BC From the Guareña City Council remember In fact, the site is part of the Tartessian culture of the 5th century before our era and “stands out for being one of the most relevant enclaves of said civilization in the Iberian Peninsula.” Proof of its importance is that among the ruins of Casas del Turuñuelo they have been recovered the first reliefs of human faces from Tartessos, which among other things confirms that this ancient culture was not aniconic. Are they your only findings? No. Since surveys began in the area in 2014, the Guareña site has not ceased to amaze us, becoming a real box of surprises… and an archaeological treasure. This explains, among other things, that from the Institute of Archeology (CSIC-Junta de Extremadura) they will consider the creation of a work team with specialists from different disciplines and successive campaigns will be promoted. Only the first three allowed part of a majestic building with two floors, a patio and three rooms to be recovered. And what did they find? In one of these rooms (‘100’), a room of around 70 square metersthe first altar was located in the shape of a bull skin and a bathtub or sarcophagus located at the southern end, attached to the wall. Not only that. Archaeologists have rescued bone and ivory tableware and plates that once decorated a now-lost wooden box. Another area full of surprises is the interior patio, 125 m2, rectangular in plan and connected with a three-meter-high staircase. There archaeologists discovered remains of dozens and dozens of animals, probably related to sacrifices: at least 52 horses, four cows, four pigs and a dog. Bronze weights, unguent jars, remains of a Greek sculpture and bowls were also recovered in the same area. Is it a deposit further? The answer is again ‘no’. And not only for the enormous fascination that generates Tartessos. In just eight campaigns, archaeologists have obtained authentic historical jewels in Casas de Turuñuelo, such as the two ritual altars in the shape of bull skin or the sculptures of faces, “the first human representations of the Tartessian culture”, remember from the CSIC. The site also reserved for us an engraving with combat scenes on a slate plate, an alphabet from 2,500 years ago and the marble altar oldest Greek (at least among those known to date) from the western Mediterranean. Are there more surprises? Yes. As if that were not enough, the structures of the site also keep some secrets that make them unique. For example, part of the stairs that connect to the interior patio are made up of steps made from lime mortar ashlars. It may seem like a minor detail until you discover what it represents. the oldest example known throughout the Iberian Peninsula for “manufacturing lime in an anthropic manner”. The big question now is what treasures remain to surface in Casas del Turuñuelo. Images | Building Tartessus, Junta of Extremadura and CSIC In Xataka | Almost 2,000 years ago a Celtiberian soldier visited the most remote frontier of the Roman Empire. Then he returned to Soria with a souvenir

one where Google, Amazon and Microsoft pay a toll so that we all have internet

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In March 2024, several countries in East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia began experiencing strange internet outages and massive slowdowns in digital services. The origin was not in a cyber attack or an electrical blackout, it was on a ship reached during an attack in the Red Sea that had accidentally dragged its anchor onto the seabed and damaged several undersea cables essential for global communications. Iran’s plan B. For decades, the Strait of Hormuz was seen as the great bottleneck energy of the planet, the route through which much of the world’s oil circulates. It happens that the war with the United States and Israel has made Iran discover something much more important: the Internet also circulates under those waters. As? Apparently, CNN told that Tehran has understood that the submarine cables that connect Europe, Asia and the Gulf are an infrastructure as strategic as oil tankers, and it wants to convert that geographical position into a new source of power. The idea that begins to emerge in Iranian discourse is very clear: if the world needs to pass data under Hormuz, large technology companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft or Meta should accept some kind of tolllicense or submission to Iranian rules. In other words, Hormuz would no longer be just a lever about global energybut also about the digital economy. The invisible cables. The great Iranian strategic discovery is born from an inconspicuous reality: almost all global traffic data depends on physical cables laid on the seabed. Banking payments, cloud services, military communications, streaming platforms, stock market operations and much of the artificial intelligence infrastructure pass through them. Some of these cables cross areas near Iranian waters, especially in the Persian Gulf. Although many of the international routes were designed to directly avoid Iranian territory, Tehran understands that proximity is enough to put pressure. The regime has understood that interrupting or threatening these corridors could generate enormous economic and psychological damage, even without firing a missile. The threat of submarine warfare. At this point it should be noted that Iran has not promised to sabotage cables directly, but it has launched deliberately ambiguous messages about possible interruptions or damages. Precisely this ambiguity is part of the strategy. The country has underwater drones, mini-submarines and capable naval forces to operate in the Gulfwhile its regional allies have already accidentally demonstrated in the Red Sea the enormous impact that a simple underwater incident. The real Western fear is not, therefore, a total internet blackout, but rather a chain of disruptions: financial delays, problems in data centers, degradation of business networks or difficulties in repairing critical infrastructure in the middle of a military crisis. In a world completely dependent on data, touching these cables means little less than touching the global economy. The inspiration of the Suez Canal. Tehran clearly looks to the Suez Canal as a model. Egypt has been monetizing for decades its strategic position by charging tolls and taking advantage of the passage of submarine cables between Europe and Asia. Iran wants to partially replicate that logic, although applied to a much more hostile and militarized environment. In fact, the media linked to the Revolutionary Guard they already talk about compulsory licenses, passage fees and exclusive rights for Iranian companies in charge of maintenance. Legally the scenario is complex and many operators will probably ignore the threats while US sanctions are in place, but the simple fact that Iran is openly raising this idea demonstrates how it has changed his strategic vision on Hormuz. The new discovered power. In short, and as we have already seen with crude oil, what is truly important is not whether Iran will one day manage to collect money from the big Western technology companies, but rather that it has discovered a new form of pressure global. For years, Tehran believed that its greatest weapon it was oil. Now you have understood that the world depends even more on invisible data flows that happen under the sea. That is possibly the great geopolitical transformation that Hormuz is currently revealing: a classic maritime strait is also becoming a critical point for the global digital economy. And that means that future international tensions will no longer revolve solely around the control of energy, that too, but also the control of the infrastructure that supports nothing more and nothing less than the internet. Image | Nara, Wikimedia, Collinpetty In Xataka | The war in Iran is doing something that not even Ryanair imagined: making 20 euro flights a relic of the past In Xataka | Dubai has come to the same conclusion as Russia. To protect your oil from drones there is something better than missiles: giant cages

Nvidia and Samsung are the names of AI. Quietly, someone is eating up the server processor market

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Artificial intelligence is about to enter a new era. After plunder the internet and drink all human knowledgetraining is no longer the obsession of the big AI companies and the inference is about to take the baton. That inference will reach its climax with the explosion of AI agents and that implies a change in balance: GPUs will continue to be key, but CPUs will take on a greater role. Inference requires other types of resources other than training and that is why Nvidia is preparing with its platform Vera Rubinbut also the rest of the industry. Intel has already said that is moving its production lines towards the Xeon, the server processors, while ARM It is seeing green numbers because a few months ago it presented a powerful processor for AI. The one that is also seeing the ‘stonks’ grow is AMD. Although its name sounds less than that of Nvidia, AMD is very present in the AI ​​race. It has secured the best memory for its new platform, it has a GPU for training and also the processors EPYC for servers. These are precisely the ones that are giving you joy. AMD EPYCo record According to analysts Mercury Researchboth ARM and AMD have had a spectacular quarter. Both have continued to eat market share from Intel (which is why it seeks to respond) and, in the case of AMD, in the first quarter of this year they have reached a record 46.2% revenue share in x86 CPUs for servers and 30% of the CPU segment. Here are two numbers to keep in mind. The first is that AMD was already coming from a fairly comfortable position, with a 41.3% revenue share in servers in the last quarter of 2025. Thus, it seems that this growth to 46.2% is not too big, but the second number that must be taken into account is the one that allows us to see the company’s leap in this segment. It is estimated that the company It had only between 1% and 2% CPU share for servers in 2018. Since then, AMD has been doing things very well both in consumer computers with their Ryzen as in servers with its EPYC, which has allowed it to eat Intel’s share by leaps and bounds. And just as important as the quota are the company’s results, not because they interest us in terms of money, but because it gives us an idea (just like what is happening with Nvidia, SamsungSK Hynix or Micron) of how far we are from being able to see competitive prices again in the consumer market. Because it is estimated that this part of the business focused on data centers left 5.8 billion dollars in AMD, an increase of 57% year-on-year. It surpasses Intel (5.1 billion), being the first time this has happened in the data center sector and, in addition, AMD projects a growth of more than 70% year-on-year in the data center segment. In this particular battle, we have already commented that Intel is not sitting idle and has new processors for data centers, a great projection being the great american foundry and we will have to wait to see the efforts to reconvert their production lines to return to the Xeon. What is evident, according to estimates, is that the server processor market is experiencing an impressive increase due to this new generation of AI and is wait that goes beyond 30,000 million in 2025 up to 170 billion dollars by 2030. Landing this for us, the users, this implies one thing: if it was already expensive to build a PC due to RAM and SSDnow other components such as processors or motherboardswho are also reorienting the business. In Xataka | The US confesses its worst nightmare: if China invades Taiwan and controls TSMC, the US economy will collapse

LG, Xiaomi, Philips TVs and more at outlet prices until tomorrow

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MediaMarkt is celebrating its traditional VAT-Free Day until tomorrow at 9am. If you are thinking about renew some TV in your housethese are the five best deals that we have found in this famous campaign of this store. Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510 4K QLED Smart TV – 75 Inch Screen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links PEAQ PTV 24GH-5025C by 98.34 euros: 24 inches and with Google TV. Xiaomi TV A Pro 32 2026 by 131.40 euros: 32 inches and with Google TV. Haier H50S80FUX by 296.69 euros: QLED, 50 inches and with Google TV. Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510/12 by 685.12 euros: 75-inch QLED and with Titan OS. LG OLED55B56LA by 759.50 euros: 55-inch OLED and with webOS. PEAQ PTV 24GH-5025C We start our compilation with one of the TVs that is always a hit every time it is on sale. This is this PEAQ PTV 24GH-5025C 24 inchesperfect for the kitchen, bedroom or even a second home. Its price now is 98.34 euros. Peaq is MediaMarkt’s own brand and, for its price, it stands out for operating under the Google TV operating system. Additionally, it is compatible with HDR10 and Dolby Audio. Additionally, with a 12V connection, this TV can be used in a caravan or truck and can be powered via USB-C cable. 24″ LED TV – PEAQ PTV 24GH-5025C, HD Ready, Google TV, Dolby Audio, DVB-T2, Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi TV A Pro 32 2026 If you are looking for a slightly larger TV (although not much), this 32 inch QLED from Xiaomi is a good option for you. Before it cost 159 euros, but now you can take it, during the Day without VAT, for 131.40 euros. This Xiaomi TV A Pro 32 is compatible with HDR10+, Dolby Audio and DTS:X. It works under the Google TV operating system and is also compatible with Apple AirPlayso you can send content directly from your iPhone or iPad. XIAOMI QLED 32″ A Pro 2026 UltraHD 4K Dolby Audio Google TV The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Haier H50S80FUX Another TV with good value for money that is worth it on MediaMarkt’s VAT-Free Day is this one 50 inch QLED from the Haier firm belonging to the S80F Series. Its previous price was 359 euros, but now you can get it for 296.69 euros. It offers 4K resolution and is compatible with formats such as HDR10 and Dolby Audio. The operating system that comes standard is Google TV and it also offers a refresh rate of 120 Hz, making it a good option for gaming. QLED TV 50″ – Haier S80 Series H50S80FUX, QLED 4K HDR10, Google TV, Gaming 120Hz, Dolby Audio, Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510/12 If you like try the Ambilight experience and on a big screen, this television model is for you. The Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510/12 mounts a panel 75 inch QLED and now it costs 685.12 euros. In addition, you get a refund of 100 euros and six months of free Movistar Plus. This TV works under the operating system Titan OS and its Ambilight lighting system is its hallmark. It supports Dolby Vision and HDR10, as well as voice assistants Alexa and Google Assistant. Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510 4K QLED Smart TV – 75 Inch Screen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG OLED55B56LA Finally, if you want to have an OLED TV, now thanks to this MediaMarkt campaign you will not have to pay the average 1,000 euros for the cheapest models of this type. This from the LG firm It is now on sale and you can buy it for 759.50 euros. Your dashboard 55 inch OLED It is perfect for watching movies and series in the dark, for example. The brain of this television is the α8 Gen2 processor and it is a TV that works under the operating system webOS. LG OLED55B56LA – TV 55″, OLED 4K The price could vary. We earn commission from these links

“If you have time, use it to learn more about AI”

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The arrival of artificial intelligence to our life It is no longer the stuff of science fiction movies. The young people of generation Z are going to have to deal with the different forms of integration of this technology in the world of work. One of the main pieces of advice from millionaire and investor Mark Cuban to generation Z, who are beginning to join the labor marketis understanding that mastering this technology is not an option, it’s a necessity. Mark Cuban’s advice. Millionaire investor Mark Cuban, co-founder of the video portal Broadcast.com and former owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, assured last year at the SXSW conference that throughout his life he had tried his luck in all kinds of businesses. ELON MUSK VS JEFF BEZOS: STAR WARS However, the millionaire acknowledged that, if he were to become a young man with an entire career ahead of him, he would dedicate all his time to one thing: “If I were 16, 18, 20 or 21 years old from today, I would dedicate every minute of the day to learning about AI. Even while I was sleeping, I would listen to podcasts about AI.” AI is the future and they must prepare for it. In his speech, Cuban emphasized that AI not only will automate tasksbut will also create new employment opportunities and transform existing industries. So the young people who are now entering the labor market are going to have to deal with AI-based tools or, what is even better, create them. According to Cuban, the key is not to be afraid of AI, but to embrace it and learn to work with it. This involves acquiring skills in areas such as machine learning, data analysis, and algorithm development. “Those people who dedicated the necessary time will achieve it,” insisted the businessman and investor, whose fortune it is estimated about $6 billion according to Forbes. Skills beyond AI. The millionaire highlighted that the domain of AI is not limited to computer engineers or data scientists who train AI models. In fact, businessmen consider that those who can combine AI skills with knowledge in other fields, such as marketing, finance or design, will be the more in demand in the future since the main task of generation Z will be to integrate AI into business processes. The businessman stressed that the jobs of the future They will require some type of AI-related skill. Therefore, investing time and effort in learning about AI is an investment in your professional future. The next billionaire will be thanks to AI. Since speaking at SXSW last year, Cuban has continued to insist on numerous occasions on the importance of AI. Among other things, has predicted that the first billionaire (“trillionaire” in English) will be thanks to AI and that it could perfectly well be a guy in a basement. A foundation on which to undertake. Until last year, Cuban was one of the protagonists of the television program Shark Tank from the North American ABC, in which entrepreneurs must captivate investors to put their money into their ideas. That’s why Cuban not only invites young people to learn everything they can about AI to guarantee a good job. The millionaire assures that knowing how AI works can open new avenues of entrepreneurship for young people and generate new successful companies, in the same way that today’s great technological millionaires did. a decade ago. “AI is never the solution. It is a tool,” Cuban highlighted in his speech during the conference for entrepreneurs. In Xataka | “Humans will not be necessary for most things”: Bill Gates does not believe that doctors and teachers have a future In Xataka | AI promises to boost the productivity of companies: the problem is that we are not measuring it well Image | Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore) A previous version of this topic was published in 2025. We have updated the topic with new statements from Mark Cuban

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