Skip to main content
Abe Olandres on Muck Rack

Abe Olandres

Verified
Philippines
As seen in: YugaTech, Banat News, The Philippine STAR, Manila Standard, Tech Telegraph
Founder and EIC of YugaTech
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Abe

Contact Abe, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Expensive Phones: This is the result of the “RAM crisis”

|
By Abe Olandres Verified
| YugaTech Verified
RAMmageddon. There’s no other way to call this recent and drastic price increases of smartphones in the Philippines. Right now, RAM prices have skyrocketed 90% in just the first quarter of 2026, and some types even tripled or went up 3-6x. Why? Simply put, AI data centers. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron (the big 3 RAM makers controlling 93% of the market) are prioritizing high-bandwidth, high-capacity RAM for AI instead of regular consumer RAM.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

NVidia makes RTX Spark official

|
By Abe Olandres Verified
| YugaTech Verified
Nvidia’s RTX Spark is the commercial name for its new Arm-based “superchip” for Windows PCs, built on the flagship N1X CPU-GPU design. It’s an integrated SoC combining a 20-core Arm CPU, Blackwell RTX GPU, and up to 128 GB of unified LPDDR5X memory, designed for AI-heavy laptops and desktops running Windows on Arm.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Watch: Xiaomi 17T Pro Review

|
By Abe Olandres Verified
| YugaTech Verified
Xiaomi’s latest budget flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi 17T Pro, has just been announced and is having a 3-week pre-order period before it is released in the Philippines on June 19, 2026. Before you decide to make a downpayment for the pre-order, check out our full video review of the Xiaomi 17T Pro first.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 1,018 articles