… Omdia indicates that memory and storage costs have increased by 40–70% since 2025, prompting the firm to forecast that 60% increase in the estimate for mainstream PC memory and storage costs in Q1 2026. …
… The ongoing memory shortage is the biggest factor affecting PC shipments, according to IDC, though the market is complex. RAM shortages have driven up PC prices, such as flagship Surface PCs now costing $500 more than they did at launch. The global memory shortage is due in large part to AI . …
…It's a bit strange that we saw an unofficial way to use Discord on Windows Phone 7 this year before we got an official Arm-native version of Discord shipped to…
… Xbox CEO Asha Sharma recently spoke about rising memory costs in an interview with Bloomberg , where she said: “ Well with AI memory and storage costs are going up 2.75x rather than 50% down .” That highlights just how widespread the issue has become across the industry. …
Although we might be beginning to see a peak in RAM prices due to a combination of AI memory efficiency advancements and bogus AI memory deals, prices for DDR5 still haven't returned to where they used to be. …
… Officially dubbed the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, this Microsoft-made mini PC will be made available to purchase later this year, and features one petaflip of AI compute power and 128GB of unified memory, which is capable of running up to 120B parameter models locally without needing to reach out to… …
… From shipping to setup, I had no major concerns or problems with the PC, and it was up and running in games within an hour. …
Despite an ongoing memory crunch that's affecting wide swaths of the tech market, a new report from Jon Peddie Research JPR reveals that NVIDIA, AMD , and Intel discrete GPU shipments in Q1 2026 remained relatively flat compared to the previous quarter. …
… Changes and improvements that are part of the Windows K2 initiative are already beginning to ship, with many more shipping in preview over the summer. …
…workflows when using these devices," a Microsoft support document says . "A Windows 11 update will ship later this year that will add a setting option to let you remap the Copilot key…