You Might Need to Say Goodbye to Affordable PCs; A Price Hike Storm Is Set to Hit as Memory Shortages & Windows 10 EOL Collide
… PC vendors are signalling broad price increases as cost pressures intensify into H2 2026. …
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After Gobbling Up DRAM, NVIDIA & SK hynix Plan to Introduce an “AI SSD” With 10× Higher Performance, Ringing Alarms Over NAND Supply
… It appears that facilitating AI workloads comes at a high cost, which disrupts existing supply chains, leaving neither consumers nor suppliers sufficient time to react to the changing supply-demand situation. …
TSMC's 3nm Chip Capacity Has Become So Constrained That Only "Long-Term, Loyal" Customers Are Getting Priority
… The major question right now is whether firms are ready to diversify their foundry partners, since it not only entails the cost of switching microarchitectures but also risks losing relations with TSMC. …
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GPUs Appear On Steam Hardware Survey For The First Time, Still Behind NVIDIA's RTX 5090
… Furthermore, QD-OLED and OLED 4K monitors are amazing displays for gaming, but they also cost a lot more. So it looks like once those come down in prices, and higher VRAM mainstream GPUs hit the shelves, more gamers will move towards better displays with higher resolution capabilities. …
Intel Presents Its Own Texture Set Neural Compression SDK: Up to 18x Smaller Textures
… At sample time — textures remain compressed in VRAM permanently and decode per-pixel in the shader. The most aggressive option for VRAM reduction, with constant inference cost. …
CES 2026 Preview: Here is How the Show Could Look Like, as the PC Industry Enters the “Memory Pandemic” Era
… The GPU is said to be a cost-effective option for inference workloads, and we do expect more details at CES. Intel will definitely be an entity to watch at this year's CES, as the firm intends to regain its lost market share in the PC space through aggressive offerings. …