DDR5 RAM pricing appears to have plateaued in GermanyThat’s very different from the past few months of huge price leapsAt the same time, analyst firms are forecasting major price hikes are still to come, and PCs are feeling the knock-on effects – the Raspberry Pi being the latest victimThere’s a hopeful sign that the RAM…
Walmart’s clearance aisle has seen some serious bargains of lateA Redditor picked up an RTX 5080 for only $562, which is 44% offThere have been sightings of RTX 5070 GPUs with 30% off, too, on top of previous yellow sticker reductions in the clearance aisleWe’ve seen some discounted Nvidia GPUs with their prices well and…
Counterpoint Research has published a new report on RAM pricingIt predicts that PC RAM will nearly double in price this quarterOn top of that, a PC maker has sounded alarm bells about rising component prices – and it’s one of manyIf you were keeping your fingers crossed for some more optimistic news about the RAM…
John Carmack has shared an idea for using fiber rather than RAMThis is a vision of the future for replacing RAM modules in AI workloadsWhile it’s highly theoretical and a long way off, there are other possible nearer-term solutions to reduce AI’s all-consuming appetite for RAMJohn Carmack has aired an idea to effectively use fiber…
Valve’s Steam Deck OLED is out of stock in the US, and reportedly in some regions in AsiaThe RAM crisis appears to be the culprit, as Valve is likely facing memory and storage shortagesValve is yet to officially confirm why its OLED handheld is out of stockAs Valve continues to prepare for its upcoming Steam…
Corsair has new packaging for its DDR5 RAMSome kits are in a sealed plastic clamshell rather than a cardboard boxLower-tier RAM still comes in the old box, but a security label is being addedCorsair has introduced countermeasures with its product packaging designed to foil scammers who are stealing memory sticks by swapping them out for…
Sapphire’s PR manager, Edward Crisler, urges consumers to avoid panic buying during the RAM crisisRAM prices are reaching unprecedented levels due to AI demandCrisler predicts pricing stability for RAM in the next six to eight monthsConcerns of RAM prices spiraling out of control due to the AI boom are running rampant among PC consumers, especially…
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A new rumor suggests a purported Nvidia RTX 5080 32GB GPU was planned for cloud servicesThis supposedly didn’t happen due to the GPU BIOS being leaked to the consumer marketA launch of a new RTX 5080 GPU with more VRAM is highly unlikely due to the ongoing RAM shortageWith CES 2026 on the horizon, as…
Nvidia commented on GPU supply woes in a Q&A at CES 2026CEO Jensen Huang admitted that bringing back older GeForce GPUs could be a possible solutionHowever, a more likely avenue could be to make new AI tech (elements of DLSS) available to older graphics cardsNvidia might consider bringing back some older GPUs as part of…
China is introducing new export controls on rare-earth elementsThose elements are used in making a whole lot of PC componentsThis could exert further pricing pressures on the makers of those components, on top of already-existing market forces pushing up the cost of drives and RAMIf you didn’t want to hear more negativity about further pressures…
