MSI’s general manager has called 2026 the “most challenging year since the company was founded”The RAM crisis is hitting the laptop maker hard, and it’s cutting back on production of low-end notebooks by 30% as a resultThere is brighter news elsewhere as DDR5 RAM prices are seemingly dropping in Europe – but not by that…
Jensen Huang has called gamers who are hating on DLSS 5 ‘completely wrong’The CEO noted: “This is very different than generative AI; it’s content-control generative AI.”He further observed that game developers have direct control over the tech and that they can fine-tune the generative AI to match their artistic intentNvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang has returned…
Walmart in the US is suddenly getting more RTX 4000 stockThis could be an effort to offer alternatives to hard to find RTX 5000 models You might need to act fact for the best RTX 4000 discountsIn case you hadn’t noticed, the price of RTX 5000 GPUs has been creeping upwards, and in some cases…
AMD Ryzen 9850X3D bundles have been spotted in ChinaThey bundle the new CPU with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a coolerThis could be a way to give PC builders a break on the price of memory, and might be a plan AMD brings to other regions with any luckAMD could have a plan to tackle…
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…
