Lenovo has warned its partners of March price hikes for select productsThe price hikes are a result of the ongoing RAM crisisLenovo is yet another company to be hit by the RAM crisis in 2026The RAM crisis is spiraling out of control, with multiple PC hardware manufacturers, companies, and resellers forced to implement price hikes…
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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New rumor suggests laptops with Nvidia’s new CPUs could arrive in the first half of 2026These are the long-rumored N1 and N1X processors, which are Arm-basedThere’ll be notebooks from Dell and Lenovo, plus other vendors, tooIf you’re wondering when laptops will start shipping with Nvidia’s new Arm CPU inside, the latest rumor suggests the initial…
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…
Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang teased new N1X and N1 SoCs for AI computersThey’re the product of a collaboration with MediatekNvidia may eventually use them for handheld PCs based on recent advancements in handheld hardwareWhile Nvidia is a leading manufacturer of desktop and gaming laptop GPUs, it hasn’t yet produced a chip for a handheld PC,…
Intel states that its new Panther Lake Xe3 graphics will ‘set a new standard’ in the industryIt comes after Nvidia and Intel’s partnership to create RTX SoCsThis could spell great news for handheld gaming PCsThe handheld gaming PC space is continuously growing, with new additions like the ROG Xbox Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go…
Chip manufacturers are warning of a shortage in DRAM, NAND and probably HBM memory chips because demand from cloud providers is outstripping supply. The problem is compounded by the Trump administration’s recent ban on Chinese factories manufacturing these components. The largest component manufacturer, Samsung, announced last week in the Korean press that it was going…
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AMD’s FSR ‘Redstone’ update could be here soon, with a new driver discovery referencing AFMF 3AFMF 3, a driver-level frame generation tool, could be included in the Redstone packageRedstone could finally see FSR 4 backported to older RDNA 3 GPUsAMD is going for gold this generation with its Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs placed among…
2024 was a banner year for Qualcomm at Computex, with the massive launch of its Snapdragon X Elite laptop processors putting it at the forefront of the event. In fact, Qualcomm’s keynote presentation last year was so impressive that I declared them the winners of the event, with guest stars from makes of many of…
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Intel has showcased its Panther Lake processors at Computex 2025It’s hinted at a focus on power efficiency and ‘next-gen iGPU performance’ for the mobile processorsIt could spell great news for upcoming handheld gaming PCs and other portable gaming systemsComputex 2025 is underway, and we’re looking forward to seeing new hardware from the likes of Nvidia,…
