… The two companies planned to collaborate across data centers and consumer PCs, with Intel building custom x86 CPUs that NVIDIA would integrate into its AI infrastructure platforms, as well as x86 SoCs featuring integrated NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets targeting a range of consumer devices. …
… AI data centers have created a supply-demand imbalance, and consumer products are the ones suffering the most. …
… In other words, consumer SSDs and HDDs could see the current pricing volatility extend into the long term. …
… This also goes some way toward explaining why Intel chose not to bring Bartlett Lake to consumers in the first place. If 12 P-cores cannot consistently outperform an older 8 P-core consumer chip in gaming, the case for a mainstream launch becomes very hard to make. …
… And with memory and storage makers prioritizing AI companies and data centers versus consumer-facing products, we could be seeing this play out right now. …
… While US customers have largely accepted their fate, Italian consumers seem to have had enough. …
… Que Choisir goes on to highlight the potential consumer risk associated with the ongoing live-driven models that are currently being employed by the games industry: "The case of The Crew illustrates a worrying trend in the video game market: more and more games require a constant internet connectio… …
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… One of the biggest stories for the consumer-facing PC market, that is, the non-data center and AI-only space, was Micron announcing that it would no longer produce consumer SSD and RAM products under its long-standing Crucial brand. …
… That being said, for consumers, PCIe 8.0 is still a long way off for any desktop platform. …