RAM pricing in Germany has suddenly gotten a lot steeperThe price of DDR5 memory is now 448% more costly than a year agoOn top of that, TSMC is reportedly set to increase its chip production prices by up to 10% next year, which will mean more expensive CPUsThe RAM crisis appears to be getting considerably…
Someone made a tool for Asus Astral RTX 5080 and 5090 GPUsIt’s designed to prevent a melting connector, shutting down the PC before this happensThis third-party utility – and the response to it – shows the level of paranoia out there when it comes to this issueDo you have a high-end Nvidia Blackwell GPU, and…
Computex live Q&AHave a question about the world’s biggest computing event? Let us know by commenting in our Computex 2026 live Q&A and we’ll put them to the team covering the show.I’ve been stalking the halls of Computex 2026, the huge computing-focused tech event that’s currently running in Taipei, Taiwan, in search of the best…
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Asus has announced the ROG Equalizer 12V-2×6 power cableThe cable aims to solve melting issues with high-powered GPUs like the RTX 5090It’s compatible with all PCIe 5.0 power supplies from other manufacturersIt’s no secret that high-powered GPUs, notably Nvidia’s RTX 5090, are still suffering from reports of connector melting issues, even with upgraded cables that…
Market data from analyst IDC has shown that SuperMicro has leapfrogged established server makers Lenovo and HPE as the second-largest PC server maker behind Dell. SuperMicro experienced growth of almost 134% for the fourth quarter of 2025 with revenue of $11.7bn, which means it accounts for over 9% of the global server market. Dell was…
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Everpure has announced Evergreen One for AI, a performance-backed consumption model for artificial intelligence (AI) that extends to use of its FlashBlade//Exa high-performance storage. Meanwhile, the company – known as Pure Storage until recently – has announced the beta release of its Datastream automated AI pipeline appliance. Evergreen One for AI differs from existing flexible…
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AMD reveals its Ryzen AI 400 series at MWC 2026 as the successor to the Ryzen 8000G rangeThese chips have been refocused on AI, with an NPU that hits 50 TOPSIt means a desktop PC will qualify for Windows 11’s Copilot+ featuresOver at MWC 2026 AMD has revealed new Ryzen AI processors designed to bring…
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is installing a new supercomputer named Sunrise, which is specifically designed to support nuclear fusion research. Based on AMD Epyc and Instinct-powered Dell hardware, Sunrise achieves approximately 6 exaflops at at 8-bit precision. That means it is capable of running six quintillion floating point operations per second. While it is…
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NetApp has refreshed its E-Series line with two all-flash models – the EF50 and EF80 – aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) training, inferencing and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The launch comes with a claimed performance boost of 2.5x for these E-Series arrays. E-Series has long been the speedy option in NetApp’s portfolio for applications that…
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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…
