… Still, the bigger picture doesn’t look great for consumers, as consumer hardware simply isn’t profitable enough for hardware makers. Even with a pessimistic forecast about the consumer segment, AMD still posted record overall revenue of $10.3 billion in Q1, up 38% year-over-year. …
… In its most recent earnings call for the First Quarter Q1 of 2026, Samsung recorded solid, if not spectacular, results for this consumer-facing unit. …
… While the hardware itself remains largely unchanged from the version Samsung unveiled last year, the company is using the UK launch to spotlight several software enhancements that have arrived through recent updates. …
… As you may know, RAM and memory prices are rising sharply , leading to significant increases in the cost of consumer electronics . …
… Louis Rossmann wants to sue Samsung Tech repair entrepreneur and right-to-repair activist Louis Rossmann contacted Samsung support over a failed 4TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSD. …
… Reports suggest that Samsung is considering ditching Windows 11 in favor of Android 17-based One UI 9 for its Galaxy Book laptops. While exact reasons aren't known, it's believed that the change could improve UI consistency across Samsung's hardware offerings. …
… Microsoft is also fixing the universally hated Copilot hardware key. …
… ByteDance needs hardware that can help it ingest, process, and serve billions of short-form videos daily. …
… This week in hardware news Catch up on some of the latest hardware news updates that arrived throughout the week alongside Computex 2026: Surface Laptop Ultra: NVIDIA is back in the CPU chip game with the new RTX Spark, which debuted on the Surface Laptop Ultra . …
… Hopefully, this will lead to a more aggressive push for better mid-range hardware that can handle offline language models so that people who don’t want to pay can fall back to running AI locally. …