Scientist Can 3D Print in Seconds - DTNS 5207
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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That’s the good news. The bad news is everything else we have to tell you about RAM.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Andy Beach.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, February 17th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, |
| 0:09.9 | give you important context and help each other understand for good to say. |
| 0:14.2 | Today, Andy Beach is making sense of the Super Bowl ad fight and 3D print stuff in seconds. |
| 0:20.4 | Ooh, I want a 3D print stuff in seconds. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 0:24.6 | But first, we need to start with what you need to know with the big story about RAM. |
| 0:30.5 | Ram again. |
| 0:33.7 | The high demand for RAM caused by massive data center buildouts continues to have knock-on effects. |
| 0:40.2 | Valve posted a notice on the Steam Deck page that the Steam Deck OLED may be out of stock |
| 0:46.0 | intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. |
| 0:50.9 | And the OLED's the only one they're making. |
| 0:52.7 | The LCD version is still available, but it's no longer in production. |
| 0:55.9 | So once they're out, they're out. |
| 0:57.7 | In Bloomberg's story checking in on Ramageddon, lots of little tidbits. |
| 1:02.5 | Tesla's Elon Musk has said the company may build its own memory fabrication plants for chips. |
| 1:08.3 | Of course, Elon says a lot of things, but that's what he's saying. |
| 1:11.6 | Tim Cook, who is usually more understated, warned stockholders that profit margins for the iPhone |
| 1:17.4 | will be compressed. Sources are telling Bloomberg that Sony is considering pushing back its |
| 1:23.4 | next PlayStation to 2028 or even 2029 because of the shortages. |
| 1:28.9 | Nintendo, apparently, again, sources saying, might raise the price of the Switch 2 this year. |
| 1:35.0 | Samsung is reviewing memory supply contracts on a quarterly basis instead of a yearly basis to |
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