Nelson Duann is a VP at Silicon Motion, a maker of SSD controllersIn an interview, Duann made it clear that the strategy of Chinese memory chip makers is different to foreign suppliersThey are obliged by the government to support the local market, and that could be bad news for theories about these chip makers helping…
A memory expert has predicted big RAM price hikes this yearThey say we could see hikes of 40% to 50% in Q3, and further 30% to 40% rises in Q4They predict that 2027 is also going to be painful, with a 40% to 45% increase year-on-yearThere’s more fuel to the fire for the theory that…
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Price hikes on Asus products will be much reduced in the second half of 2026This is over in Taiwan, but should be reflected to an extent globallyThere’s also a report that SK Hynix, a big memory chip maker, is set to slow AI memory production in favor of conventional RAMThere’s been a pretty relentless string…
Under the UK’s digital markets competition regime, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Google will be required to improve transparency and fairness in how search results are ranked. It said that businesses have noted that current ranking practices are neither fair nor transparent. The CMA said businesses also found that changes made by…
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Lenovo has said that RAM prices will likely “never” fall back to pre-crisis levelsThe company also predicted a “new normal” for memory pricing from 2030 onwardsMicrosoft expects the cost of memory to double in just over a yearIf you were hoping we might get to the weekend without any more bad news on the RAM…
A new type of pixel is capable of both controlling and analyzing lightIt’s based on the Fourier mathematical toolWe’ll have to wait some time to get this in our gadget screensScreens that double up as cameras could be packed into future gadgets, as researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed a new type of…
A Redditor reports that their RTX 5070 (which they were gifted) diedPNY replaced the faulty graphics card with an RTX 5070 TiThese kinds of upgrades can happen with returns if you get very lucky, and others on Reddit have similar tales to shareIf your graphics card goes kaput, that’s obviously regarded as bad news —…
A new report from TrendForce gives us some optimistic nuggets of info about the RAM crisisIt appears that retail prices are dropping in the US, Europe, and especially over in China right nowThe bigger picture hasn’t changed much, though, according to memory chip makers, but we can still hope this is the start of a…
